27% oration of Lomonofroff. Oct. 23. 
gion, but from dispite. What did the world say of 
us before our delizerance? Do-not their wotds still’ 
echo in our memories? ‘ Rufsians, Rufsians, you 
have forgot Peter the Great; You are wanting in 
gratitude for his services. They don’t raise his 
daughter to the throne: She is deserted, and they 
don’t afsist; fhe is despised and they don’t revenge.” 
O what fhame and derision! But our incomparable 
heroine has done away reproach from among the 
sons of Rufsia, and has justified them to the world. 
Our good will was not wanting, but her magnani- 
mity restrained. Onur zeal was not deficient, but 
fhe abhorred bloodfhed. To our cowardice must 
not be attributed what was the council of God; 
who was pleased in this manner to manifest his 
power, to fhow her fortitude, and to increase our 
veneration and our happinefs. Such mercies has 
the Most High secured to us by the advancement of 
great Elisabeth to the throne of her progenitor! 
But what is to day’s festival? The crown and con- 
summation of all. God crowns her wondrous birth ; 
he crowns her glorious accefsion ; he crowns her un- 
affected virtues ; he has crowned her with his grace § 
he has encouraged her with hopeful joy; he has 
blefsed.her with love sounding victories ; with vice 
tories similar to her progrefs to the throne; for, as 
her internal enemies were subdued without bleod, 
so her foreign foes were overcome with small lofs. 
Our sovereign arrays herself in purole ; is conse- 
crated to dominion, is crowned, and afsumes the 
globe and sceptre. The enraptured Ruofsjans fill 
