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THE BEE, 
OR 
LITERARY WEEKLY INTELLIGNCGER, 
FOR 
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER II. 1793. 
IVAN CZ ROWITZ, 
OR THE ROSE WITHOUT PRICKLES, THAT STINGS NOT, 
A TALE. 
Written sy wer Impertan Majesty. 
Translated from the Rufsiau language, for the Bee. 
The following little tale was given to the Editor by a gentleman of 
literary eminence in this place, who afsured him he might depend 
upon its being the performance of the august personage to whom 
it is ascribed, which he had accefs to know from particular circum.. 
$tances. The translation was made by the favour of a friend who 
is well acquainted with the language in which it is written. It is 
done with an elegant simplicity which the Editor considers as per- 
haps the rarest, and the most valuable literary acquirement. 
In the original the name of Hior, is a combination of letters so unusual 
in Englith that it wasthought advisable to change it into the more 
familiar name Jvan; Tsar a title of royalty, Zsaritsa the technical 
word denoting the Tsar's wife, and Tsarevitch that of their eldest 
son, aswell as a female exercising royalty, to adapt them to 
the Englith orthogrophy, are made Czar, Czarina and Cxarowits. 
Berore the times of Kij Knoese of Kieff, a Czar li, 
ved in Rufsia, a goo! man who loved truti, and 
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