8 PETERSBURG. 
chap, would have met with a similar punishment. 
y y ~ -> After every precaution, the dress, when put on, 
never satisfied the police or the Emperor : either 
the hat was not straight on the head, or the 
hair was too short, or the coat was not cut 
square enough. A Lady at Court wore her hair 
rather lower in her neck than was consistent 
with the ukase, and she was ordered into close 
confinement, to be fed on bread and water. A 
gentleman's hair fell a little over his forehead, 
while dancing at a ball ; upon which a police- 
officer attacked him with rudeness and with 
abuse, and told him if he did not instantly cut 
his hair, he would find a soldier who could 
shave his head 1 . 
When the ukase first appeared concerning the 
form of the hat, the son of an English merchant, 
with a view to baffle the police, appeared in the 
streets of Petersburg, having on his head an 
English hunting-cap, at sight of which the 
police-officers were puzzled. “ It was not a 
cocked hat,” they said, “ neither wds it a 
round hat.” In this embarrassment, they re- 
ported the affair to the Emperor. An ukase was 
accordingly promulgated, and levelled at the 
hunting-cap; but not knowing how to describe 
(l) A made in which criminals arc punished in Russia. 
