of the campaign with accuracy saving that he took the credit of fighting the whole battle himself and especially of the stout which he considered himself as clearly entitled to seeing that it was effected by his own stone the throughout the town gave holiday to their little who followed in after the drums with paper caps on their heads and sticks in their breeches thus taking the first lesson in the art of war as to the sturdy they thronged at the heels of peter wherever he went waving their greasy hats in the air and shouting hard for ever it was indeed a day of roaring and a huge dinner was prepared at the in honour of the where were assembled in one glorious the great and the little of new there were this castle though very much altered and is still in and stands at the corner of pearl street facing s slip the and � the with their s at their the officers at the elbow of the � and so on to the lowest on of police every having his rag at his side to his pipe drink off his heel and laugh his flights of immortal in short � for a city feast i a city feast all the world over and b� n a feast ever since the e dinner went off much the as do and fourth of ban of � flesh and fowl were of liquor drank thousands of pipes s many a dull joke with j sided laughter � i must m t to n tl ia ti blamed victory m of his many o y d v e honest with his a ven o that they him with name of pie er tiiat is to say pe er great or as it was translated by the people of j � which he maintained even unto the day of his death i j m book containing the third part of the reign of peter the his troubles with the british nation and the and fall of the dutch chapter h peter relieved the sovereign people from the of taking care of the nation ith sundry particulars � of his in time of peace the history of the reign of peter a melancholy picture of the incessant cares and inseparable from government and may serve as a solemn warning to all who are ambitious of the seat of power though crowned with victory enriched by conquest and returning in triumph to his metropolis his exultation was checked by beholding the sad that had taken place during the short interval f his a the for their own had n a deep draught of the cup of power during the reign of william the and upon the accession of peter they felt with a certain instinctive perception which as well as cattle popular di c possess that the reins of government had passed into stronger hands yet could they not help and and upon the bit in silence it seems by some strange and inscrutable to be the destiny of most countries and more especially of your enlightened always to be governed by the most man in the nation so that you will scarcely find an individual throughout the whole community who cannot point out innumerable errors in administration and convince you in the end that had he been at the head of matters would have gone on a thousand times more strange that government which seems to be so generally understood should invariably be so administered � strange that the talent of so bestowed should be denied to the only man in the nation to whose station it is requisite thus it was in the present instance not a man of all the herd of in new but was an on topics of state and could have directed public affairs better than peter but so severe was the old governor in his disposition that he would never suffer one of the multitude of able by whom he was surrounded to intrude his advice and save the country from destruction scarcely therefore had he departed on his expedition against the than the old of william s reign began to thrust their heads above water and to gather together in political meetings to discuss the state of the nation at these the busy and their made a very considerable figure these worthy were no longer the fat well fed tranquil that presided in the peaceful days of van � on the contrary being elected by the people they formed in a manner a sturdy between the mob and the administration they were great for popularity and for the rights of the resembling in disinterested zeal the wide mouthed of ancient rome or those virtuous of modern days emphatically the friends of the people under the of these profound it is astonishing how suddenly enlightened the multitude became in matters above their and s all at once felt themselves inspired like those religious in the glorious times of illumination and without any previous study or experience became instantly capable of directing all the movements of government nor must i neglect to mention a number of wrong headed old who had come over when boys in the crew of the and were held up as by the enlightened mob to suppose that a man who had helped to f f peter s reproof discover a country did not know how it ought to be governed was preposterous in the extreme it would have been deemed as much a as at the present day to question the political talents and universal of our old heroes of � and to doubt that he who had fought for a government however stupid he might naturally be was not competent to fill any station under it but as peter had a singular inclination to govern his province without the assistance of his subjects he felt highly on his return to 