must be English ;" and, when he told them that he came from London, they all 

 rose, one .s|>rinjrin!^ over the taltle in his hnsto, and crowdiMl round liini, slinking 

 hands, kif;siiiir hirn. and ovor\vli(.'liiiiii<i: him with compliments, as he was the first 

 Enjrlishnum they had ever seen, lie then proceeded through I'osen to Warsaw, 

 where he arrived on the (Uh of June. 



Afterwards he travelled towards Russia, but was stopped at the little town of 

 Tykoeyn, and detained there three months, from some informality in his passport. 

 When this difficulty was overcome, he proceeded by Grodno to Wilna, through a 

 country covered with the remains of the French army, horses an<l men lying dead 

 by the road-side, and bands of wild-looking Cossacks scouring the country. On 

 entering Kosnow, three Cossacks attacked his carriage, and endeavored to carry 

 off the horses, but they were beaten back by the whips of the driver and servants. 

 At Mitton, he was obliged to sleep in his britzska, as every house was full of the 

 wounded ; he was awakened in the night by the cows and other animals, of which 

 the inn-yard was full, eating the hay which had been put over his feet to keep 

 them warm. He reached Riga on the iiOth of September, and found the town 

 completely surrounded by a barricade of wagons, which had been taken from the 

 French. Between this town and St. Petersburg, while making a drawing of a 

 picturesque old fort, he was taken uj) as a spy ; and, on his examination before 

 the prefect, he was much amused at hearing the comments made on his note- 

 book, which was full of unconnected memoranda, and which puzzled the magistrates 

 and their officers excessively when they heard it translated into Russ. 



Mr. Loudon reached St. Petersburg on the 30th of October, just before the 

 breaking up of the bridge, and he remained there three or four months ; after 

 which he proceeded to Moscow, where he arrived on the 4th of March, 1814, 

 after having encountered various difficulties on the road. Once, in particular, 

 the horses in his carriage being unable to drag it through a snow-drift, the pos- 

 tilions very coolly unharnessed them and trotted oif, telling him that they would 

 bring fresh horses in the morning, and that he would be in no danger from the 

 wolves, if he would keep the windows of his carriage close, and the leather cur- 

 tains down. There was no remedy but to submit ; and few men were better fitted 

 by nature for bearing the horrors of such a night than Mr. Loudon, from his 

 natural calmness and patient endurance of difficulties. He often, however, spoke 

 of the situation he was in, particularly when he heard the howling of the wolves, 

 and once when a herd of them rushed across the road close to his carriage. He 

 had also some doubts whether the postilions would be able to recollect where they 

 had left the carriage, as the wind had been very high during the night, and had 

 blown the snow through the crevices in the curtains. Tlie morning, liowever, 

 brought the postilions with fresh horses, and the remainder of the journey was 

 passed without any difficulty. 



When he reached Moscow, he found the houses yet black from the recent fire, 

 and the streets filled with the ruins of churches and noble mansions. Soon after 

 his arrival, news was received of the capture of Paris, and the entrance of the 

 allied sovereigns into that city; but the Russians took this intelligence so coolly, 

 that, though it reached Moscow on the •25th of April, the illuminations in honor 

 of it did not take place till the 5th of May. He left Moscow on the 2d of June, 

 and reached Kiov on the 15th. Here he had an interview with (General Rapp, on 

 account of some informality in his passport. He then ]iroceeded to Cracow, and 

 thence to Vienna; after which he visited Prague, Dresden, and Leii)sic, passing 

 through Magdeburg to Hamburg, where he embarked for England, and reached 

 Yarmouth on the 27th of September, 1814. 



uring this long and interesting journey, Mr. Loudon visited and took views 



