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a great shout, mid ran furiously upon the Gtheral's army; where-
Woo very sharp engagement ensued, that lasted nearly two hours.
The rebels now found, too late,* that miracles were owed, and
having two or three thousand men killed on the spot, wili.macredi
themselves prisoners. The fileiwral banged up every
after the manner of the Romala_Detimstion, when the ie
over, ant brought the rest Owners to Sltheows warm' or
the nag leaders, bang exarnion the Pine, contused theft crimes,
and discovered tholtrincipal ens coothrned,with them. They
owned that they Wire to release the Pitts' ass Sophia, and put the
Government into her hands. to whom they thought of right it be-
longed. What the first account of this rebellion came to the Czar,
he was at Vienna, where the Emperor, with whom he was he
alliance, bad entertained him most magnificently. as Is before re-
lated ; and from thence he was preparing to go to Venice, in which
State, as well as at Rome, peat Ern:lndia/maw* making for his,
reception ; but this'neWs.made him alter Ms'resoititiOn, and set our
directly for Moscow, by way of Poland, where be had a short inter-
view with King Augustus, and it wasAbought he concerted men.
sures with. that Prince, at this time? for the war.that was soorraftee,
AWrifetivilliEteedin, ftWe'Cliiii a treaty of peace then on foot
with'the Turks „by the mediation of King The czar set
forward wiita train of thirty'persons, &moos Wkoneeraw the Gen.
Le Fort and Com Goitowio ; but the flack Womitastyn Was left
at Vienna;being to assist. as.Pleitipotentiary. ALdie IV of
Carlowitz. His Majesty prisceeded with -po Mitch tidi
and secre.y, that be arrived at Masco*, to the great joy of his
faithful friends and subjects, and to the terror aid confusion of bli
enemies, before it was koown in that city That be was on his journey.
The very nest day after his sternal be ordered very handsome re-
wards to be given to those soldiers who had been stedfast in their
loyalty, and fought faithfully in his serike ; ht likewise ordered
the principal agents and contrivers of the rebellion to be brought
before him ' • and having fully examined them himself before his
Boyars. they were all sentenced to death. Among the conspirators
were Prince Colorin and General Romanodoekowski, with several
ladles of quality, and many priests of the first rank, who had bosh
great incendiaries among the people, under pretence of defending gbh
purity of their faith and doctrines. A great number of the theimik
ntors were beheaded, some broke upon the wheel, and DOM
buried alive; above two thodsand of the &relltzes were executed,'
some bud their heads taken off in the market-place, and abort
hanged upon gallowses erected for that purpose, at the gates of
all the walls that encompass the city. 'Bose who were beheaded
were laid is ranks upon the ground with their heads by theist,
where they were left, as those hanging at the gates were, bll
the winter, and then taken away, to prevent the.air being infected
by. theni. Other gibbets were set up in the public roads leadikg
to Neither, at about two miles distance, upon which a great num-
ber of the other rebels were banged, and large monuments of state
were erected near the same on the roads, with an account of theft
crimes deeply engraven thereon. and ordered to be repaired, as oc-
casion required, to perpetuate the memory of them. The very
houses in which they lived were rased to the ground. and the
name of Streik:es were commanded, from beneefortb,. to be abii-
fished. and changed into that of Soldatee, or soldiers. Such of the
Strelitzes as were lodged the lour guilty had their. lives spared, but
were banished to Siberia, Astracan, Asopy, and farthest parts of
the empire, with their wives, their families, and nearest of kin.
The following brief extract will show, in the clearest
possible light, the previous ignorance of the Russians,
and the decided' step taken by the CZAR for introducing,
Arithmetic, which, till this time, was altogether unkni4n•
amongst them. Besides the value of this short. paragraphs
in an historical point of view, we look upon it as amusing
in the highest degree. This was in the year 1700;
There bad beets no schools to teach even arithmetic before tie
reign of Peter, nor did the Russians at all understind the used
figures, bat reckoned by the help of beads strung on wires in
a frame, Which they plated as *units, tens, hundreds, and
thousands, and by tossing them backwards and forwards, Could
multiply and divide, after a tedious way, liable to gross nibs
takes, yet this was used in all their pubbc laces. About
this time the Czar erected a large 'school, b which a great
number of boys were not only taught arithntetic, but a subsietenso
in messy was allowed to 'such as were willing to come and leans.
&NW of the most ingenious among them were taught the niatho.
antics by Mr. Fergharsoo and the two yountpenotie out of Chilies
Hospital, whom the Cau ant over from Ragland, When be wits
here ; 'and Of these about a hundred,'who 'had learnt
were sent 'abroad to. England, Holland, and Italy, to qualify thane
selves for the' service of the Czar's fleet. He oleo employed
sane Mr. Fergbaisoo to teach astronomy, tithing*" blin all kiosk
of teleecopte and other inatbanatkal I nstri niente and books.
ordered him to ettleidate all the visible ectipses,lind how they w
appear in his country,'Which he did constantly, acid Mot to him
they would happen, is whatever distant part of hie empire be was.
Ow' next extiitt will prove very diverting, although
rather long. liralaies to the introduction of English alii
French fashions in female and male attire—,the shavisig
of beards, which very recently created great -eonfwsion it
certain quarteis—and, taken all in all, is 'worthy the 110..
riOus Consideration Of AKERMANN and all persona who
are oracular in matters relating to the toilet.
The Eassiabs had a great veneration for long beards, 'which It
was their custom to wear banging on their bosoms, conibettotenelei:
.great pride and kept very smooth. They let the hair andll6lllflir.
per lips grow so king, that it would dip in the cup whence's-thaw
drank, so that they were obliged to wipe' diem after it; which Was
a Nauseous sight to such as were out used to is The Itusaboti
valued their beards the mare, became in dialler Mired fesloal
strangers. whom they generally hated • but the Cam was resolved
. his subjects should kWh Ma other people, and therefore laid aim:
of a hundred roubles per SWUM on all geotlarien who wore beards;
except the priests; the common people were obliged to pay a its.'
;pm at the gate of every tows or city which they entered, and per-
ions were there placed to collect it ; but such was their retard fat
.what they foolishly thought an ornament to their Lices,-diat there
were many who would have gtveo any thing to hive priserved it.
and when the Czar found be could not overcome their prejudicein
this point without using force, they would offer large Bribes to
Uwe. who Came to execute his orders. And It mast have been a
'diverting scene to behold the exemadonen scampering after this.
venerable grey-beards in the streets, whit fled from them as the,
• wield from so inlay habitue. Ills' Majesty would order Persons
to be shaved at his own table, and sometimes so roughly that MGM
of the skin of the most obstinate was taken away with' the beanies
The fear of being thus handled made abundance comply ; but limit
. they could at preserve their bards on their fans living,enadp
Mid them up carefully, to be buried with them sehendead,
they ad* be able to give &. Nicholas an amount of m '
other world. 'This shaving their beards was looked upon in'
„Com as a great breach of religlos. How many foolish, and
wicked customs aid practices, have beat cloaked Wader that se
passe! The Czar, so this account; had libels *tote against hint. and
dept about the streets of Moonier, Charging him with tyranny and
litiaray relayed next to alter the fishiest of his people's
'firms; which he skintight Machinate* to the men. inbeeonting and
ridiculous laths women. But own this, as air/ other
dulage be weight slaking dam, tbepicople, instailble of the bone-
its Jig dieing./ them. made great complaints' and niertioriegs.
An order weal* published to prohibit MI Russians to "'lsar out
their houses buein a coat of the Polish fabliau, width was ninth
'die same with the French sad &stab. The servants of strangers
were the first on whom this order was executed. wlio, if they were
seen abroad without complying *kb it. were' taken from behind
.dirt sledges of their masters, ant made to pay a Ise eel* sent to
, • •
prima : but this sot' affecting the toothiest people, theme took do
notice of it, till sewer means were used with than. Their far-
ides' habit was a bog east which readied down nitwit to theiffeet,
• tunt war plaited on the hip: sot murk unlike the woman's Perth
Coat. His Majesty obliged all 'his Boyars, and whoever should
eane to Court, to provide themselves with }Meta dresses, upon
pain of his displeasure ; and loch as could afford it were to trim
Ala* clothes with gold or silver. He commanded s pattern of the
Sottish .toat to be hung up at every gate of the Qty of Moscow.'
Zed that livery body should'conform to that in nulling their clothes
and if any one should presort* to disobey hls orders, and be found
Pining say of the gates of the city in their long. habits, except the
pope peasants that btooght provisiens to the markets, they slundd
be obliged to pay two greveni (about the value of zOd. Roglisb) or
tumid down at the gates. and bate' all that part of their Clothes tut
'off which lay on the viand; While they were so on their kkar.
%be women mid especially theladies about the ''-urcrink
ordered to reform their dress likewise according to the
fashion; they had some things is the andebt labia very od7,W.
Ocularly, their shift sleeves were sometimes four or flee ells in length,
which, wises they mitten agetnoter., chit used to fling taut theme
Awass •Moist, and when the stranger had taken the' sod Op and
biased it, they used to gadiefit agein abintetheir arms. Thera ail
oatithaialteration the Oar made in favour of the women. which
reconciled them to that of their dress. It had bi:en
thr doom, at all entertainment. he Roma, -for tbe Wassitillofto
be piekted into tborVienft or conversation of the then.
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English dresses, and that they should be entertained in the same
room with the men, whom his Majesty, by the retreoehment of
their b arda, bad ade much more teneable to them. Reordered
that the evening should conclude with ohmic and thmeie g. se belied,
leen in fledge countries ; ankh, woOld often be voinatilifinasK
at those ciiftertaloments, with most of the nobility midtheladke of
'Ms Coufi. , There was no wedding of any distinedin, Gomel*
among the foreigners, but the Czar had melee of it, ass' would
honour is wises his presence, usually makings meat to ibibride,l
suitable la the extraordinary expence of such eutertihmlime, axe
eseedially if married to any officer newly come into die•ssilstry.-0
There was another thing also which the women were weipleased,
with in his Majesty's new regulations. It bad beets the erinnt
Russia for matches to be made up by the parents of each Welesiettb•l
out the consent of the young people, or their hardly omits Mel
soother. t•The Czar considering that this unacceptable wag el
joining young people together, without their own approbetims,
might in a great measure be the occasion of that discord and little
love which was shown to one another afterwards, it being a common
thing for the men in Russia to beat their wives in so barbarous a
manner, that they often died of the blows. and mane of them mit-
fered for the murder, it being interpreted in the law there, as being
done only for concedes, and therefore not at all. culpable. The
wives, en the other hand, being thus many times made desperate.
would murder their husbands, in revenge for their ill usage; but
the sentence un such occasions was, that the woman should be
Mitred alive in the ground, standing upright, with the earth filled
Whitt her, and only her head above the earth, with a watch set over
her, to see that no one relieved her, but that sbe should be starved
to death ; the people were not hindered from throwing meeks
into the pit where she washaried, and those were laldent in tapers
to be lighted up In homer of the Saint she called upon. It was a
very common sight in Aussie to see women thus executed, who
have been seven or eight days dying. These sad spectacles made
the Csar, In pity to his people, do all that was possible to remove
the occasion of it, and therefore ordered, that no young couple
should marry, fur the future, without their own good liking shad
consent ; and that all persons should be admitted to visit end see
ooe another, at least six weeks before their marriage. This seW
order was•so very agreeable to them, especially to the younger int;
that they began to conceive much better of the forgiven, front
whom the Czar had learnt these costume. His Majesty, took naive;
in answer to the complaint* of those who disliked the alterathins
he made in Russia, that the customs of the country lad been mach
altered and improved in the course of time, and chat there was no
more ill In doing it at once. than in the course of five hundred
years ; as a proof of their having been so altered, be mediate Id.
lowing representation the year 1701, one of his jesten being
to be married to a very pretty woman, he ordend all his lords and
gentlemen that were in his favour, with several 'foielvers,.to be
invited to the wedding; sad gave his commandsithat every person
who wee linked, and whose names were all set down 'ht. •writiog,
should provide themselves with the same habit that wis•Worn'in
Russia in the days of their forefatbers about two hundred years
before; and that the whole ceremony should be performed after
the same manner as it was at that time. The Boyars had a long
cap on their heads at least a foot higher than was. then the fashion,
sad were in an awkward gaudy dress, not easy to describe ; the
furniture of their horses was fixed after an unusual manner, some
of the Boyars of the Ant rank had for the reins of their bridle et
Alves chain, the links of which were about an inch and a bait or
two inches broad, nude of thin silver beat out flat, and the beast
plate and crupper were dressed with little square pieces of the Mite
thin silver, which, with the motion of the horse, struck against each
other, and made a kind of jingling like bells, as they rode ; among
'these was his Majesty in the same habit with the lords, one
of the old Boyars being appointed to represent the Czar toe
the day, in a mock dress. Persons of meaner rank, who could
not have their horses' furniture adorned with sliver, used tin.
The women, who were invited to this Wedding were ordered also
to be dressed after the old Russian fashion, their shift sleeves were
at least twelve yards long. contracted into a ruff, as much as would
lie between their shoulders and their wrists, witlttheir upper vest-
ment only covering their bodies, and the heels of their 'shoes or
slippers near five inches high; they rode in machines or waggons,
set only upon Wittees and wheels, without any leathers or swing
to make them easy, and there were short ladders tied on the side
of each waggon, like thaw of the present Tartars, to get up, which
waives were hooped over at one end. where the women sate,
covered with red cloth. Its this order Captain Perry tells us he
saw them march to the house of the deceased General Le Fort,
which was built at the Czar's charge. There were several pads
spread in a very large bad, according to the degrees and ranks of
the guests, and at the upper end there was one table placed upon *:
throne about three feet higher than the rest. at which eats the
meek Czar, with a mock Patriarch, to whom the company ado
vaned by gradual steps, and bowed their beads to the ground MI
several proper distances as they advanced, and then being aid
by their tenses, every one kissed, first the mock Czar's kande and
them the mock Patriarch's, upon which a dram of brandy was pre
seated to each man. both by the Czar and the Patriarch ; this lase
name he always, after be abolished the office, gave to a balsa'
who, instead of the. patrianhal noes, was obliged to wear die
figure of a gibbet on faits breast. Wimp the company bad received
their cops of brandy. they. retired backward front the throne to
about twenty feet distance, and all the way made their bows as they
Went back, and a splendid entertainment was prepared for them
after the old fashion way. •The next regulation of the Can's re•
lated to the Noblemen's retinues. It had been a pompom
tom among all the great Boyars, to retain in their eanice, as a
piece of state iutd eraodear, a great number of euterfluom ser-
vants, which; when they' west abroad, walked lore bare headed The Marquis of BA It B A CEN A • who has just teft Lon-
before them, and others fdloWing in a Wig Ude. Its' alli lets of a, ,
themes and canon • and When the Hagan rode on hanabick, min for intnticn, tames' with nitre use. richest possible pre.,
went in their coaches or sledges, it was thought the more stately co seats in jewels, for-the Imperial bride of his -Siaveredgls,
go a slow pate. that tbeie attendants might keep up with them en
toot, ontovend, fa the hardest rains or utmost severity of cold SS the °Wee' Of Disznandne Brazil.
Weather. The.great ladies were wont to hairs ile isme numerous By the Dutch Mail this day we have the following in-,
retinues • but the Csar Peter, who always rede•Swift himself,
'in them another example, for he only went himself with tereitlag articles of intelligence from the East of Europe,
a few servants, on blembeeb' eleetbed handsome and In the Prussian Stele Gazette it is repeated that • the
uniform livery, and *ordered 'his Boyars, Ms Odlaf -courtier%
sad all persons of distinction to do the sames And that bits pusillanimous Surrender of Maria has cost the Turks
orders might be the more effeetua' soon after be MM. (ran less than two Paellas, 18,000 •priseners, 220 canoes,'
his travels, he ordered a list to be taken of all the loose Meek
ants that bung about the Balers houses, and commended tbeM 80 pair of Odours. There are few instances on reeled
be be senttothe army. The wee' "ea °Ogee tbe.1911•4 such an enormous losa'at so little expense of combat
sad great intercessions were made, and sem of mosey given fee
many of them to be excused, eapeelally for suds at theseattesdaste Maid. It appears that, although the Russian forces
'as were really gentlemen. and waited oa the Lords only In areain motion, and extensive •ti • t •
prepare ons are going o
tattoo of prefOrman ; but, lentreier. the Czar's orders were to be
obeyed, and there was a draught made of Several thernsind;ulnee on both sides for the prosecution of the war, yet the
esseary and supernumerary attendants, who Way anent into the songnine hopes ere entertained at Ileum, and •
army, to which his Majestyhimself was Dow ;ring with ninth
expedition. generfilly, that the negotiations for peace will to
Lengthened as one extracts are, we are confident that favourably. • And if this does' pot • happen; we may -no(
to such as take an interest in watching the singular gm! be- suiplised to find the Russians very uhortlrknecking
datiuna of improvement in the human race, we have not nt.thegatis.of constantinople:
proved tiresome. We could give. mach more, and equally • -MILT?! Jells Is. •
entertaining matter from the materials before us but•we In reference totheneles of tfie'itakbitOf *Slletria, which wi
must conclude abruptly by quoting " the .Epitaph of Me yesterday, we "tete" atiewira..*YonewlN Partielaarit
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Bennie glades. by his ertiarlotera, I Fenton on the 14th to the camp of the Grand Violet' tit-
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