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to any amount for which they can procure chap. 
credit ; to pay for nothing ; and to sell what ’ * 
they have ordered, as soon as they receive it. 
We should call such conduct, in England, 
swindling. In Moscow it bears another name , 
it is there called Russian magnificence. 
The. children of those who murdered Peter 
the Third resided in Moscow when we were 
there : one ot them married the daughter of 
the Governor. The Princess Menzikof, grand- 
daughter of the favourite of Peter the Great, 
was also there : we were often in her company , 
and too much amused by her cheerful dispo- 
sition, to report the style of conversation she 
indulges everywhere. However, that which is 
a proverb in Russia may at the least bear an 
allusion in England. When the late Empress 
died, her son, and successor, caused the bod\ 
of his father to be taken up, and laid in state, 
by the coffin of his mother, in the palace- at 
Petersburg. It is said there was only one per- 
son, an archbishop, who knew where they had 
buried him; as he was interred without mo- 
nument or inscription, in the church of the 
monastery of St. Alexander Nevsky. Orlof, his 
murderer, was then at Moscow. An order from 
the Emperor brought him to Petersburg ; and 
when the bodies were removed to the church 
