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CAsION FOR PILLAGING THE GOODS, 
AND FOR CARRYING OFF THE MA> 
TERIALS OF THEIR’ NEIGHBOUR’S 
Housk.” “ Some fought an accefion of 
fireneth, at the expence of France ; foute 
ai the expence of each other; fome at 
the expence of third parties.” “THERE 
COULD BE NO-TIE OF HONOUR IN 
a SOCIETY FOR PILLAGE!” Letters 
on a peace, &c. page 146, 148, 149. Such 
2 picture drawn by the hand of a great 
mafter, we fhall not prefume to.deface 
by anv touch of ours.—England, under 
pretence of reftoring order in France, 
aimed at the acquifition of Dunkirk and 
the colonies. Auftria, with the fame 
profeffions, at the conqueft of Flanders 
and Alface. The Emprefs cf Ruffia, 
-becaufe fhe was too remote to make 
*conquefts from France, plotted and per- 
epetrated the robbery of Poland, and 
-confulted the intereft of her ambition 
and her greatnefs by encouraging her 
moft formidable rivals to wafte and ex- 
hauft their frength. ‘The motives were 
«*Smilar, the conduct was of the fame fort, 
the morality. was equal, and the con 
fummate fkill and mafterly policy of the 
#mprefs Catherine, have vindicated the 
Superiority of her exalted genius; above 
the puny ‘intriguers, to whom, in this cri+ 
fis-of the fate of Europe, heaven, for 
the punifhment of our offences, has coms 
mitted the management of the affairs of 
nations, .She was more politic than her 
alliés, andas honeft.. -9 .e00) 1 
Catherine II. after a reign of 34 years, 
during all which time fhe enjoyed an 
uninterrupted: fow of excellent health, 
complained, on the 4th of November, 
©.S. towards the evening, of fome fliche 
pain in the bowels, which ufually accom- 
pained a ventle diarrhoea to’ which fhe 
wa’ occafionally fubje&t, and which the 
regarded, with much reafon, as a princi- 
pabcaufetof her continual health. Next 
morning, November sth, O.S. her prin- 
eipal femme de chambre, Maria Savifhna, 
made the ufual inquiries concerning her 
Majefty’s health, and how fhe had paffed 
thenight, when Catherine affured her 
that fhe never was better, nor had-ever 
enjoyed 4 more’ found repofe, defiring; 
as ihe lay yet in bed, to know what fort 
ef weather reigned abroad sand being 
anfwered,a gentle froft of two degrees, 
with-f{now, her Majefty exclaimed, that’ 
fhe could have almoft divined'that to be 
the cafe, as fhe commonly flept bef in 
frotty weather. The Emprefs © being 
got upand dreffed, went into her cabj- 
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net, after drinking a dith of coffee, te 
‘pafs fome time, according to herconftant 
cuftom, in writing, till the hour of the 
arrival of her minifters to tranfaé&t bufi- 
nefs. About ten o'clock in the forenoon, 
the firft yalet de chambre:Zachari, being 
returned from executing a little com= 
miffion on which he had been fent (with 
papers to prince Zuboff, grand mafter 
of the artillery, &c.) not finding her 
Majefty in her cabinet, after waiting an 
unufual time for her coming ont of her 
mof private clofet,! in an inner room, 
opened the door, as if to go. through the 
large chamber in which it food, in one 
corner, within a kind of venetian tent; 
was fupprized to fee her Majefty’s feet 
ficking eut of the clofet door, having 
apparently been ftruck with the fit of 
apoplexy that killed her, whilft feated 
on the ftool within, and flipt down from 
it in this pofition, as her body was found 
lying between that and the wall, while 
her feet, as faid above, pushed open the 
door and appeared without. She lans 
guifhed till about ten at night on the 6th, 
when dhe expired, without having fhewn 
the ieaft fign of fenfibility from the 
moment of the accident. On opening 
her head, a fmall blood-veffelwas found 
burit, the immediate caufe of her death. 
The \faculty, proceeding to open the 
corpfe, found acouple of fmalhgall ftones- 
in the gall bladder, but which could have 
had little fhare in the death of thecEm- 
prefs. ) at eae 
Some were of opinion that fhe: only. 
fainted on the ftool, and that the blood 
vefiel was burft by.the fall._—But-fuch 
a fuppoiition féemed’to the reft unnecef= 
fary, as an extravafation of blood is com 
mon in apoplexies. “4 
The day following the new Empero 
made his, public entry into St. Peterfi 
burgh, amidft the .acclamations of all 
ranks of people. What meafures may 
be purfued by a Prince whofe talents 
have never yet, at the age of 42 been 
called forth either in the cabinet or the 
ficid; on coming fuddenly from retreat 
and filence, into the difpofal of the trea - 
fures and power of that immenfe empire, 
it is impoffible at prefent: to divine; but 
from the general charaéter of Pave 
PETROVITCH, it may be prefumed that 
he, will take that part: in the’ prefent 
crifis which willbe moft favourable té 
the cauie of humanity, by offering his 
raediation to sae ape powers, for 
putting a flop <o the horvid ravages of 
the prefent ztuel and ge gitious war. 
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