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cuse from tlie offending rear admiral.-^The money 

 Peter instantly ordered to be stopped out of his own 

 pay, bowed respectfully to the court, and embracing 

 the captain, took him once more into favour, highly 

 pleased at his having so well seized the spirit of his 

 institutions, and at his courage in inforcing them on 

 himself ; he probably might also be flattered with ' 

 the compliment paid to his justice and magnanimity. 

 The commodore added that for the first years after 

 tbe institution of his different courts, the emperor u- ■ 

 sed to slip in, when he knew there was any cause to 

 be tried where a poor man was plairxifF, and woe to ■ 

 the judges, if their decision was directed by a con- 

 sideration of the rank or fortuue of the parties.—- 

 Such was the man who has been so much misrepre- " 

 sented by ill informed authors ; and your correspon- 

 dent, without injustice to this great sovereign, (a title- 

 he thinks he truly merits when his education, means, 

 apd the state of the country are compared with • 

 his works,) cannot help remarking, that when he 

 first settled in this country, twenty-one years ago, 

 there were still living several of Peter's old servants, ' 

 who all talked of him with the respect and venera- 

 tion of the honest commodore. 



Yours, 



Imperial caJet corf, St Pctcrjbtirg, ArCTICUS. 



Oct. 10. 1791. 



LETTER FROM SENEX. 



Sir, To the Editor of the Bee. 



Ij* my last T half promised that you fhould hear from 

 aie again, if health (lioukl be contimicd. I have rea- 



