ADVERTISEMENT 
and amusing assemblage.” In a former part of 
the same Letter, the inattention of the superior 
Clergy to the religion of the lower orders, is 
forcibly illustrated. The words are as follow : 
“ You have probably received some account of 
my journey to Archangel ; of my movement 
thence, in a north-easterly direction, to Mezen ; 
of the distinguished reception I received from 
the Mayor of that highly-civilized' city, who 
made me a speech in Russian, three-quarters of an 
hour long; of my procuring, there, twelve rein- 
deer, and proceeding towards the Frozen Ocean, 
until I found a Samoied camp in the desert, 
between the rivers Mezen and Petchora ; and of 
my ascertaining, that that nation, which extends 
over almost all the North of Russia, remains still 
in a state of Paganism ; a circumstance, of which 
the Archbishop of the diocese was ignorant.” 
The description, given in this work, of the 
miserable condition of the Russian peasants, and 
of the scarcity of provisions in the interior of 
the country, has been disputed. Let us now 
therefore see what Lord Royston lias said upon 
this part of the subject. It is contained in a 
(1) So marked in the original. 
