MOSCOW. 
of them with a barouche. Nothing could be 
more ludicrous than was their appearance. 
Out of respect to the sovereign, they had main- 
tained a painful struggle to preserve a sitting 
posture in the carriage, but cross-legged, like 
Turks. The snow having melted, they had 
been jolted in this posture over the trunks of 
trees, which form a timber causeway between 
Petersburg and Moscow ; so that, w hen taken 
from their fine new carriages, they could hardly 
move, and made the most pitiable grimaces 
imaginable. A few days after their arrival at 
Moscow, they ordered all their carriages to be 
sold, for whatever sum any person would 
offer. 
It is now time to take leave of our Ori- 
ental friends and fellow-lodgers, that w r e may 
give an account of the ceremonies of Easter. 
The people of Moscow celebrate the Pique with 
a degree of pomp and festivity unknown to 
the rest of Europe. The most splendid pa- 
geants of Rome do not equal the costliness 
and splendour of the Russian Church. Neither 
could Venice, in the midst of her Carnival, ever 
rival, in debauchery and superstition, in licen- 
tiousness and parade, what passes during this 
season in Moscow. 
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