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chap. 0 f St. Peter and Si. Paul in the citadel 1 , he was 
, V ' , compelled to walk in the procession from the 
palace to the church, following the body ot the 
person he had murdered so long before. It 
was then the people of Petersburg beheld an 
interesting scene of retribution. One of them, 
who was an eye-witness, described the whole 
of it to us. The bodies were drawn upon low 
chariots, by horses. Immediately after the coffin 
of Peter the Third, and close to it, walked, 
with slow and faltering steps, his assassin, 
Orlof- having his eyes fixed on the ground, his 
hands folded, and his face pale as death. Next 
to Orlof walked the Emperor ; certainly mani- 
festing, by this sublime although mysterious 
sacrifice to the manes of his father, an action 
worthy of a greater character. The ceremony 
ended, Orlof received an order to quit the em- 
pire ; and lately was travelling in the South of 
Europe. 
(1) The place where state-prisoners are kept. 
