MOSCOW. 
of those servile beings who, at the pleasure of 
the Tsar, were sent to be whipped like so many 
dogs. The short liberty they enjoyed in the 
reign of Catherine did not suffice to elevate 
their minds from the depravity always incident 
to a state of slavery. Under Paul, they again 
experienced indignities similar to those which 
had been offered to their forefathers. Potemkin, 
one of the meanest and the most profligate of 
men, frequently taught them to remember what 
their condition was originally, by inflicting 
blows upon any prince or nobleman with whom 
he chanced to be offended : and the Emperor 
Paul ventured to chastise the nobles who were 
his officers'. Under such government, if we 
find them servile, oppressive, cowardly, and 
tyrannical, it is no more than may be expected, 
from their mode of education, and the disci- 
pline they undergo. They will naturally 
crouch in the dust before an emperor, or 
before one of those wretched creatures called 
favourites, and will trample their inferiors be- 
neath their feet 1 2 . 
(1) See Note 1. in |). 47- 
(2) “ Servituti gens nata, ad omue libertatis vestigium ferox est ; 
placida si prematur. Ncque abnuunt jugum. Ultro fatentur Principi 
se servire ; illi in suas opes, in corpora, vitamque jus esse. Sor- 
didioris reverentia? humilitas Turcis non est in suorum Ottomanorum 
sceptrum/* Bar claii Descript. Moscovue , p. 74. L. Bat. 1630. 
