Star.
London, England, 1826-01-20 00:00:00

NICHOLAS.

I; as often happens, a congeniality of disposition is
marked in the great ones of the ea'th and those who
share their confidence—who are in the closest connexion
with them—l, for one, must hope the most liberal exer-
cise of the almost unbounded power (es his name, Au-
tocrat, import.) of the pre>ent Emperor of Russia. His
physician, Doctor Hamel, originally from the borJers
of the Caspian Sca, when accompanying the Archduke
Nicholas in his visit to this country, took much interest
in the considel ation of the popolar institutions, Lan-
casterian, Jennetiao, and whatever goes to the amelio-
ration of the condi, ion of the human species. He was
quite vu j'iit is the use of the living languages, and was
at that time preparing a work educa!ion in the Ger-
m in. The Emperor Alexander shetred his sense of the
merits of this physician in his attention to his beloved
'brother (who, the Doctor then told me, was to be his
successor, if Ve survived him), by having his remunera-
tion increased as a me:sure of Ate; that is, by referring
his case to the constituted authorities, fiat:social. It is
pretty generally known how favourable Alexander was
to the ahAitioncsfSlavecy, and when shewn smiler& the
works of the Africans, in their native land, and heing
informed of their mangers, he c msidered them a
supe•ior people to some of his Tartars. I rather
think, in the statement in the Papers, of his mention-
ing the constant services of his lamented coachman,
on the occasion of his d'ath, during the last seven
years, it ought to have been during seventeen years,
from ,the foll.iwing circumstance :—A friend of
mine, walking with a Gentleman of his acquaintance in
Picea filly, who had heretofore travelled much abroad,
at the time of the Emperor, his sister, the late Duchess.
of o:denhurgh, the King of Prussia, &c.
being in this country, entered into conversation with
the Emperor's coachman, whom they met walking
about. t' How do you like this country?" said he, ad-
dressing him in the Russian language. " I have reason
to like it very particularly ; I have mote freedom here
than in any of the other countries we have traversed.
From the time of leaving Russia till our artival in this
country, I had to shave the Emperor every day ; but
now he gives me the mornings to myself. He hesitates
not to trust himself in the hands of the English barbers,
though be was so particular on the Continent in making
me constantly attend him." _ _

The late Emperor, so happily designated Alexander
the Good, by the Parisians, on their liberation from the
iron yoke of military despotism, under which, said the
late modern G.nghiskan, "the Parisian youths have
lost their gaiety," as they failed to support him in his
c lossal strides through the petr:tylug winter made
deserts of Russia. A•exand. r having shewn himself
particularly attached to the Friends, it may afford
amusement to m my at their faow subjects L.) hear
some of his partialities, as well as of those of his sister,
the late Duchess of Oldenbutgb. His principal agri-
culturist was a Quaker Yorkshire Farmer, to whom he
was particularly attentive. He received visits at his
capital from travellers of this sect. 'I he unusual ap-
pearance of the king's carriage waiting the breaking
up of the Quakers' Meeting, one day in Houndsditch,
gathered a little crowd in the street. Those that waited
saw the amiable Duche-s and her accompanying Ladies
return in the regal vehicle.
On the arrival an the Emperor, he expressed a wish
also to attend a Quakers' Meeting, and was conducted
to. Westminster Meeting by a wiled philanthropist of
this sea, already tuition ed by the Empet or's friendship,'
in Labouring with fliontas Clarkson on behalf of the
Negroes. Though in Friends' Meetings there are even
appointed leading members, looking about them like a
Master of the Ceremonies in a worldly Assembly-room,
the sinter: votary in that ne plies votary of social
worship, the silent meeting, must be communing with
hi. own heart : *trust he still. The Assembly at large
(with the exception of the leading members), have the
appearance of such spiritual exercise, of such self=
abandonment to the inward workings of that spiiit,
which, says Ilanikt, " makes cowards of us ail," that
demon of Socrates, on u hich he professed to depend for
illumination. When the Meeting is over, the Friends,
with a taste rot exceeded by any the most happily
conceived symr ols of Masonry, shake hands; and, on
the close of the Me ring at Westminster, he cordially
joiaed in the lute: change of the social sympathetic
pies,use. When about leaving v•is country by way of
&Orton, and D,nrer, on expressing a wish to see the
economy or nient.;e of a Quaker's house, the Minister
~.,‘a,tl.:reagh or Sidmouth cuni,riunicated this to one of
the Fr leisd, at Bligtiton. Eli, sister and he set out
?list a:ery to pay the sisit. A crowd gathering, not-
A ith,tanding their caution, they gave it up. In passing
.o.v 41 ds Doer, the Dachessespied a fam•ly of Friend*
the road, and pointed them out to her brother. !le

requested of them the gratification he had failed ;o
ob:ain at Brighton, and valued it the more, because
thus coming on thrm unawares, he saw what hiwisbed,
their accustomed arrangements under ordinary circum-
sta•ices.. He participated with them of refreshments,
visited all their apartments, and different ofEces, saluted
them individually on retiring=" Remember me (said
he, on his departnrei, I shall olten thil,lc of you with
pleasing recollections."

JOHN WALKER, M.D.

Bond-court; Walbrook, Jao. 16, 1826.