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were works carried on entirely under the direc- c hap. 
tion of Admiral Ribas, who captured the place 1 — > 
irom the Turks. The late Empress entrusted 
every thing concerning it into his hands, as a 
mark of her approbation of his conduct : the 
Emperor Paul, with a view of thwarting his mo- 
ther's benevolent design, dismissed the Admiral 
altogether, leaving his large family destitute of 
any means of support. This was exactly the 
sort of system pursued by that monarch, when 
we were in Russia, towards every veteran in his 
service. Neverwas the remark of Frederick of 
Prussia more completely verified, “ Officers are 
kke lemons : we squeeze out the juice, and cast away 
the rind!" We had an opportunity to examine a Number <>r 
catalogue of officers who had resigned, or who officers, 
had been dismissed the service, since Paul’s 
accession. Including the civil list, the persons 
excluded amounted to the astonishing number 
of thirty thousand ; eighteen thousand dismissed 
hy order; and twelve thousand who had 
voluntarily resigned. In the list of these, ap- 
peared the names of some individuals who had 
only been in office three days ; others a week : 
thus the whole body of officers in the Emperor’s 
service had been changed with such surprising 
1- apidity, that there was hardly a family in all 
Russia unaffected by his caprice. The bad 
policy of this was even then evident; for as 
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