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countries they have conquered, including the crown and 

 sceptre (broken, too !) of Poland ; crowns dating as far 

 back as the twelfth century, and all sparkling with 

 clusters of jewels of immense value and splendour. The 

 thrones, too, are there one of massive silver, all en- 

 riched with jewels on which successive czars have sat, 

 most of them uncomfortably, I doubt not ; and huge 

 gilded chariots, like those in old pictures of Lo*4 Mayor's 

 shows, with wheels and harness suited to a menagerie, 

 in which these bears of the north have driven ; and the 

 clothes, which these same czars have worn on State 

 occasions ; with things innumerable, including Napo- 

 leon's camp-bed, and the chair which Charles XII. used 

 at the battle of Pultowa. 



In passing out of this treasury, 900 cannon taken in 

 war are seen arranged in the Place d'Armes. The most 

 of them were taken from the French, in their retreat, by 

 their victorious but barbarous pursuers I need hardly 

 say, that no specimens of English cannon are there. 

 These are guns too rare to be found in foreign arsenals. 

 " Our national vanity is great ! " laments the foreigner, 

 It may be so, but I trust our national gratitude is greater, 

 Wellington never lost a gun. 



But I am forgetting the Kremlin. What else have we 

 to see there ? Why, the valet de place tells us we " have 

 seen nothing ; " and that, too, after pacing for hours, 

 under oppressive heat " up-stairs, down-stairs, and in 

 my lady's chamber." 



We have yet to see, he says, the Palace of the Patri- 



