The Sun.
London, England, 1825-06-09 00:00:00

AIODEL OF ST. PETERSBURGH.

( Extract from the Journal' de St. Petersinirgh of Saturday,
11th (23d) April 11:25.

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It will, perhaps, he in the recollection of 'our
readers, that permission was obtained last year, by M:
Ts:SINE DE Rossi, a Venetian Nobleman, for the coristructitin
of a model of St. PetersbUrgh. ' This interesting and vast In:-
dertaking, for the execution of which M. de'ROssi has brOtight
from Italy and France able artists and excellent-workmen; is
going.On.Japittly under the direction of ,11. 'Caves ison of the
artist of the same name, so well•known •to the ptiblic in this
Capital by-his musical compositions), and •M. Buja;'both
gineer architects from the University of Padua. A .c onsiderabte
• part of this model is already finished ; and pit is the most ih-
teresting part, as it includes ..the Imperial winter Palace...the
Admiralty, with. all its dependencies, the :14onuttimt of • Peter
the Great., the. Bridge of Isaac, with the Machinery•ror 'letting
'vessels pass, the. Senate, and the whole of the•Engii4h'Quar,
also the Barracks of the-llorse-Guards, the Post-Office,. aci,
It, is impassible to expreis with what ptecisibn the
minutest parts, of the architecture are representediu,thiß odei4_
. nothing is omitted, columns, capitals, frontispiecel4 bars
of balconies, statues, exterior bas, reliecs, tftr:b.; eVeTI
colour of the houses, are a perfect imitation.- .-There •is notes
proprietor. who could not recognise in thisastonishing miniature,
not only.the front, but • even.• the interior of the Courts of his
house,-..eyery thing ham ,been, calculated, meakuted, cletigneu,
and rigorously executed. 'ro pronounce, in one word...an.
glum. on this interesting work, ,it is auflicient to-say,. that their
Majesties the.inperor and ,•Ernpress, along.with the Imperial
havedeigned.to communicate to M. de Rossi the•most
flattering expressions, of their satisfaction, when he had, the
hon Our. lately of .eXhittiting it to their iktajesties'in one' or the,
apartmenta of . the palace. The scale of this model is -in the
proportion of 1. to 240, which
..maygiy.e an idea of its extent,4
anti of the degree of interest it must,excite .in .the.eurious, from
the facility afforded, by the scale being so great, ofeauittingnot.
even the", minutiae.. Thefronts of- the houses are executed:4u
double pastebOard, with props of woodi; the,roofs in lead: the
bas reliefs and statues in plaster, .the windows arc of glass
the canal. andthe bedfor the Neva .are of tin, so that they may
-be filled with, water for.- the purpose of hesring the.: floating
bridges and the diftereot,oit,,of barges of the country.- Fifty.;
five persons are cortataptly at work at this model, which pro-.
bably will be finished in two yet-re, and-. which mill teflect the •
highest, honour not.only on the constructors of it, but also .on
the,active and, ingenious individual who, has coeceived.the idea. ••

* The whop~ city.which M. de. Rosai, is.tbus engaged in con-
sOcting.will occupy a. space of 5a archines.lopg and 32 broad.
—The urchine is scarcely so much as.the English yard.

The .11Pv... Abraham Charles. Mummery; whin
has been transferred to Morpeth Gaol• for' tilaVorrnb6lng the- •
house of Mr. 'Nits, at Shields; hot pioperlra: Clerkyrn?o;
having obtaSnedliis 'ordin at ion' 14 the Archbishop
forged testirWonialsl;, bUt-*MO' big:Watt discovered the irripo•ir
.ture, he stateathe,samein circulars to the iiaribus Ditiieseses'
a caution against the arts cf Mr. Mummery—(Tyne llfer-
cary.)