TAGANROG. 
almanacs, by way of payment*. The Russian 
people cannot be duly appreciated, excepting 
by those who have not only actually resided 
among them, but who have seen them when 
they are removed from intercourse with civi- 
lized nations, and when they appear divested 
of that external varnish which is so forcibly 
alluded to by the Lord-lieutenant of the county 
of Vasa, in the Extract annexed to a former 
page of this volume 1 * 3 4 . Perry hardly expected 
to meet with credit, when he gave his humble 
representation of the hardship he sustained, 
inasmuch as it affected the integrity of so lofty 
an individual; but further acquaintance with 
the country has long reconciled his simple nar- 
rative to all our notions of the people *. An 
Englishman will probably pause before he con- 
tracts for employment with any future Potentate 
(1) Sec Memoirs of the Court of Petersburg, by Segur, vol. II.p. 130. 
It was Segur hirasclf to whom this happened. 
(?) Page 386. 
(3) “ In the mean time, his lordship {Apraxin, the Lord-Chamber- 
lain,) upon his return to Moscow, informed me that he had orders 
from the Czar to pay me my arrears, and he gave directions to is 
deputy to bring in the account of what was due to me; so that 
thought myself now sure of my money : but the next tune 1 waded upon 
hardship, in discourse he told me, that his Majesty was so taken up 
with the affairs of the army in Poland, that it would perhaps be a Ion 
time before he would come again to Moscow, and have e.sure to go 
and view the place, and to give his orders, ic.and^nf/yoW^ 
what 1 would do with myself in the mean time. Perrys Slat f 
Russia , p. 19* bond. 1716. 
