The Sun.
London, England, 1802-01-08 00:00:00

PRINCE )'37.EMKI4V.

THE .following Anecdotes tend to display the un-
bounded-luxury and dissipation in which this very
celebrated Russian General lived, and the fitvours
profusely lavished on hintby his Imperial Mistress,
whose. Minister he occasionally was, as well as
favourite. The mannerof his sudden and unfortu-
nate catastrophe is also shewn.

•
Soon after the capture of Ismail, Potemkin -re-
paired to Petersburgh, to enjoy his triumph in the.
approbation of his Sovereign. He was received
with transports of joy. Festivityand.presents now
resumed their alternate course. The Empress gave
him. another Palace
,contiguous to her own, which
was fOrmerly occupied :by: Baron WolfF, and which
had been recently fitted up for him, at the expence
of near 60e,000' rubles, and a coat, laced with dia_
mends, which cost atleast 200,000. He uniformly
displayed a pomp which, would have appeared execs,
sive in the most splendid Courts in Europe. The
expence of his table also, on ordinary days, was 're--
gularly-about Roo rubles : it was furnished with the
.most exquisite daintie4 and the rarest fruits, In:
the depth of-winter) be had .bespoke,_ long before
hand, all the cherries, of a: tree in certain.hor.•
house, at a ruble the Cherry, He possessed an im-:
mense quantity of jewels, some of which he had
scarcely seen, and never cared about since they.
were first brought him. :.He-One day-took a cli§like
to his diamonds, and they' were all sold : some time
after, the desire of having them returned, and he'
ordered them to be-re-bought at any price.
Potemkin, however, had not the good. fortune,
nor the honour, of signing the Treaty of Peace con-
cluded at Yassy, in 1791. He had repaired to -the
Congress there, but he. was soon after attacked with
a fever, on which the Empress immediately
patched two of her most experienced Physicians.---.
He rejeaed their advice, and would follow no regi.:
.rned. He carried even his intemperance to. an
uncommon height. His ordinary 'breakfast was
the greater. part of a smoke dried goose from
Hamburgh, slices of hung beef, or ham, drinking
with it an excessive quantity of rich wine, and
Dantzic liqueurs; and afterwards dined with- equal -
voracity.. He never Controlled his appetites
in any kind of gratifieation. He frequently had
his favourite starlet gaup ,at_ seasons when. that
fish was enormously dear ; this soup alone; which
might be considered only as the overture to his
dinner, stood him in:3oo rubles; and he was known
often to. have sent his purveyors, from the Crimea
as far as Petersburgh, and even to Riga,. for oysters,
or China oranges, on their first arrival at thoSe
ports.

With the diet above mentioned, it is matter of
no surprise that his distemper daily gained ground,
but he, imagined he should get well after removing
from Yassy.• 'Accordingly he set out for Nicolayeff,
a town which he. had built at the confluence of the
Ingoul with the Gogh. He had scarcely proceeded
three leagues on his route, when he found, hiniself
much worse-; he alighted from his carriage in the
midst of the high Way, threw hitns-elf on the grass'
and in a fiery short time e.;:pired tinder a tree,• in
the arms of the Couri-tei6 prdilicka,
his favoorite
niece, on the Is'th of Oaober, and
,in. the
sz year of- his age..