The Sun.
London, England, 1812-09-18 00:00:00

MOSCOW.

As this famoas City acquires a peculiar interest.
at this, moment; when is fa res;tened by a furious.
invaderove insert the following account of it :---
Moscow, the ancient capital of the Rlitiiira
Empire, and.the residence of. the Gears, is sitt,m-
eci,in the circle of its own name, in 11)c fity-tifla
degree fhrty-five minutes latitude, and thirty-
eight degrees East longitude, fouyt'een hundred and
fourteen miles North-east of London. It stand.*
in „a 'pleasant plain, on the banks of the. Ri-ver
ioskwa, from which it, derives its name. 'Mr.
Hallway sey ;that river riinsthroni.;ll it, and mak-
ing many windings, adds a very Strikiug beaqty
to the city ; but in summer it is in many places:,
shallow and unnavigable. Several eminences, in-
terspersedu with groves,' gardens and lams, form
the most dlightful prospectc It is built some-.
what after the :Eastern Manner, it having but few
regular streets, and a great number of houses With
gardens. The number of churches in the city is.
computed at sixteen hundred, among which arc
eleven cathedrals, and two hundred and seventy-
one parish churches ; the rest either belong to
' convents, or may be consideled as private chf:pels.
Near the churches. are hung up several large bells,
which are kept continually chiming ; .one of these
of a stupendous size, and, our. author observes,
affords a surprising proof of the folly of thqse
who caused it to be matte. This bell is four hun-
dred and forty7three thousarM ,seven hundeed and
twenty-two pounds, weight, and Was cast 'in the
reign of the EmpreSs Anne, but, the beam' on
which it hung being burnt, it fell,
,and a large
piece is broke out of it. Many of the churches,
have gilt steeples, and are Magniiicently detortted-
within with paintings. The number of public
edifices and squares at Moscow ;amount to forty-
three ; only a part of the streets is paved, they
are in general very dirty. The city is divided in-
to four circles, one within another. The interior
. circle, or the Kremelin,.svhich signifies a fortress,
contains the following rental-I:aisle buildings : the
old imperial,palace, pleasure-houses, and stables,
a victualling-house, the palace which formerly
bekinged to the'patriarch, nine cathedrals, live
-convents, four parish churches, -the arsenal, with
the public colleges, and other offices. All the
churches in
,lie Kremelin hasre beautiful spires,
most of them gilt,, or covered with silver. The
architecture is in the Gothic taste, but the inside
of the churches is richly ornamented ; and the
pieiures of the paints are decorated with gold,
silver, and precious stones. lithe cathedral called
isbor,Which• has no less than nine towers, covert
with copper and double gat; is a silver branch with
forty.-eightlights, said to weigh two thousand eight
hundred' pounds. Here are depoSited, in silver
shrines, the remains of three Archbishops, and in
a box Of gold is a robe brought from Persia,
which is here looked .upon as the identical gar-,
ment worn by our Saviour. The remains of the
sovereigns of the Russian Empire and, their male
descendants, are interred in St: Michael's church,
and those of their consort and the .Princesses are
deposited in the convent of Tschudow all these
structures are lofty, spacious, and built with
stone. This circle is three hundred fathoms
diameter, and surrounded with very high and thick
flanked with six towers, planted with can-
non, and also•defended by deep moats and ram-
parts.

From the above circle you pass over a hand-
some stone bridge, which is called Kitagorod, or
the Chine:se Town. There are here five streets,-
two cathedrals, eighteen parish churches, four
convents, thirteen noblemen's houses, and nine
public edifices : these are—the chief dispensary,
in which the medicines are, kept, of china porce=
lain, decorated with the imperial arms, and from
this place the whole. empire is supplied with me-
dicines—the Mint, which' is a superb structure, a
magazine or warehouse, to swhich all goods -are
brought before they have paid duty--the Custom-
house—the Ambassador's palace, which is con.-

verted into a silk'mannfaciory—a printing-house
—a Court of Judicature—the physic garden—and
the Exchange, in which there are about athousand
handsome shops. Here all commercial affairs are
transacted, particularly what rebates to the trade
with China, whence this circle contains many mer-
chants.
This part of the city is fortified with a pretty
high wall, strengthened with twelve towers, and
strong bulwarks.
The third circle surrounds the former, and is
named Bielogorod, or.,the White' TOWn, from \a
white wall with which it is encompassed,,it is also
called Czars Town. • The Neglina rims through
this part-of the city, from north ,to south ; but
though there are in this city 'several kneses, bo-
yars, merchants, and tradesmen, it is in many
parts' very dirty, and most of the houses very
mean ; it includes twenty-4x paa'ish churches; se-
ven abbies, eleven convents, and nine public edi-
fices; there are two palaces, a cannon foun.lry,
two markets, a brew-house, a magazine of prowl-
SionS, the salt fish harbour, and the basil garden.
At the timber market are sold new wooden houses
which may be taken to pieces, and sput together
when the purchaser pleases. •
The fdurth. circle is called Semlanoigorod, that
is a. town surrounded,with ramparts of earth, in-
closes the three preceding parts, and its i ramparts
" include an area of great extent. The entrance
was formerlyby thirty-four gates of 'timber, and
two of.stone, but at present .only the two. last are
standing. Over one of:these gates is a mathema-
tical school and an observatory. This circle con-
tains one hundred 2nd three parish churches, two
convents, an Imperial:stable, an arsenal for artil-
lery, a mint, a magazine for provisions, and a cloth
manufactory ;,--round these principal parts of the
city Lie the suburbs, which are of a great extent,

*neretmtain sixty•purisb chntehes; and. ten eon-,
Tent.

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These suburbs'resernhle villages in other , parts
of the country, except. the German, quarter, which
is the largest and handst;the,t, and contains two
Lutheran Churches, a kratnmar school;'a
ist church, acid a Pontish church. This suburb is
fituated Towards the east, on the river Yansa ; to
w ,
the crest of it lies palace of Annenhof, which
has a good garden, and-. towards the north is a
large --and stately hospital. A, little farther to
the wcst stands the palaCe of the Empress Eliza-
beth.

The number of inimbitants arc supposed to
*mount to about a hundred and fifty thousand;
these consist of statesmen, noble families, and
their s-ervants, merch .nts, priests, monks, and
Servants belonging to the churches; mechanics,
labourers, carriers, sledge drivers, &c.

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FRIDAY, SEPTWBER 18, 1812.

Government this morning received Dispatches
from► New-York and Halifax; hut the substance

ofthem has not transpired.

The Gleener.arrived: at Falmouth on Tuesday ;
she left New York on the 15th, and Halifax on
the 26th ule: The intellip•enoe she brings IS fa-
ther of altostile nature. The American Govern-
ment and' The Freneh Party.are, it is said, Aeter-
mined to persevere in the'AVar, but almost the
whole- of the mercantile interest, and a great TO.-
jpr:ty of the people in the Northern States, are
dec;dedly adverse to it, and such is the violence of
pp.rty feeling in America, that'we shall not be sur-
prised to hear of a.separation of the States.
'The following Letter from our FalmoUth Cor-
respondent contains the substance 'of the news
brought by. the Gleaner

" Falmouth, Sept. lb.

-" Arrived 3ff the Land's End, this morning,
the Gleaner ketch, Lieutenant TRICKEY, with
dispatches from America; left New York on the
15th ult. and lialifat on the 26th. The dies
"tenger in charge of the dispatches al-rived
here this day, and went off in a chaise and
four, for London.. Every thing wore the
same warlike appearance on her leaving anon
her arrival ; so that the revocation of the
Orders in Council has produced little or no effect,
and it is not supposed that any alteration will
take place till a new election, and MAW) I ON is out
of power.—The Militia in the Northern States re-
fuse to march against Canada, and revolution in
many of the States is likely to take place.

"The Editor of the Federal Republican bas esta-
blished himself in George Town, about half a
radeifrom Washington, where a 'patrole of 50'of
the Federal Party kept a nightly watch, while be'
continues hie publications. The Americans are
much alarmed for the safety of Commodore Ro-
..
GERS and.his squadron, no accounts having been
rcceivedifroln 'him. The Federal Party keep se-
cret all •information they receive. The Carteret
'packet; entered New York as the Gleaner came out.
Three privateers were sent into Halifax on the
,2fith; the harbour was full of American captures.
His Majesty's . ship Belvidare vgas efiased. into Ha-
lifax by two American frigates, which she would
have el-loge& but having 200 prisoners cm, board,
did not deem it prudent; :after landing those, she,
iu
,company with a sloop of war, sailed in quest
of them."

We have received, by the Gleaner,
Papers to the 25th ult. from which the following

extracts :