MOSCOW. 
and the buyers, the barber had ultimately the 
losing part of the business. Flushed by his ' 
newly-acquired wealth, he set up for an amateur 
himself; bought minerals, and gave dinners; 
and ended by returning to Vienna without a sous 
in his pocket, to revive his old trade of frizzing 
and shaving. 
Moscow is, of all places in Europe, the most t ^™ n ; nd 
advantageous rendezvous of adventurers and Swindlers 
swindlers ; consequently, many are found there. 
The credulity, the extravagance, and the igno- 
rance of the Russian nobles, offer a tempting 
harvest to such men. The notorious Semple rose 
to great celebrity in Russia ; sometimes in- 
fluencing, if not altogether governing, Potemkin. 
He introduced an uniform for the hussars, which 
is still worn ; and made alterations, truly judi- 
cious, in their military discipline. 
The wealth of the nobles is really enormous. 
We have not in England individuals possess- theAWe*, 
ing equal property, whatsoever may be their 
rank or situation. Some of the Russian nobles 
have seventy and even an hundred thousand 
peasants ; their fortunes being estimated by the 
number of their peasants, as our fVesl-India mer- 
chants reckon their income by the number of Condition 
i • , . of the 
their hogsheads. These peasants pay them, peasants. 
