MOSCOW. 
will see it lavished among foreigners in their 
service, upon their tables and equipages, theii 
dresses, toys, trinkets, jewels, watches, snuff- 
boxes, balls, masquerades, private theatres, 
dancers, singers, trading antiquaries, and tra- 
velling picture-dealers. This last office is fre- 
quently filled by hair-dressers and Italian lackeys. 
There is no place in the world where adventurers 
reap such harvests as in Moscow. Friseurs from 
Italy or Germany , having bought up any rubbish 
they are able to procure, get some friend to 
give them a letter and a name, with which they 
arrive in the city. The news is soon buzzed 
abroad ; the new comer sought for ; and he must 
be indeed a fool if he do not make his journey 
answer. We saw a man of this description, a 
barber of Vienna , as a picture-dealer in Moscow, 
caressed by the nobles, and invited to all their 
tables, until his stock of pictures was gone, and 
then he was no more noticed. He complained 
with bitterness to us of the dishonourable chi- 
canery of the nobility. Some of them had given 
him Pinchbeck instead of gold watches and snuff- 
boxes, and paste instead of diamond rings, in 
exchange for his pictures. In fact, they had 
mutually cheated each other ; the pictures being 
of less value than the worst, commodities given 
for them. Of the two parties, however, the seller 
