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fervants, drelTed in the mofl fuperb manner : 

 indeed, befide a body guard, he kept no lefs 

 fhan three hundred domeftics. 



At Mofcow I met feveral cart-loads of Eng- 

 lifli midfhipmen; who being thrown out of 

 employ by the conclufion of the American war, 

 had entered into the Rullian fervice. They 

 were ynder the care of a ferjeant and two ma- 

 rines, and were going to join Admiral Macken- 

 zie on the Black Sea. 



After having fpent a few days at Mofcow, I 

 continued my route to St. Peterlburghj and, 

 having taken up my family at Narva, I reached 

 the capital about the beginning of the fum- 

 mer 1784. 



As it may probably intereft my readers to 

 learn a few authentic particulars of the great 

 Potem.kin, I fhall here prefent them with fome 

 which are not known to the common herd of 

 fcribbling travellers, but my fituation in his 

 fuite enabled me to colled:. 



His levee commenced about eight in the 

 morning; at which time a little fliabby anti- 

 chamber, and a billiard room adjoining, were 

 crowded with general-officers. Thefe apart- 

 ments, with a bed-room, were all he ufually 

 inhabited, though he had feveral magnificent 

 ones in the fame houfe : the way to thofe he 

 occupied led through a fuite of large rooms. 



The 



