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on then,’’ faid the Emperor, with a file 
of encouragement, and laying his hands 
upon the vegabond’s fhoulders. A long 
folemn paule tollowed; the military guard. 
ftood fill; and nobody ventured by word 
er motion to difturb the Emperor in this 
fingular interview. The Grand Duke 
Conftantine alone, whofe attention had 
been excited by this unufual ftoppage, ad. 
vanced fomewhat nearer to his brother. 
The ftranger new related, that he had 
been a captain in the Ruffian fervice, and 
had been preient at the campaigns both 
in Italy and Switzerland ; bur that he had 
been perfecuted by his commanding officer, 
and fo mifreprefented to Suwarrow, that 
the latter had turned him out of the army. 
Without money and without friends, ina 
foreign country, he had afterwards ferved 
as a private foldier in the Ruffian army ; 
and being much wounded and mangled at 
‘Zurich (and he here pulled his rags afun- 
der, and fhowed feveral gun-fhot wounds) 
he had clofed his campaign in a French 
prifen. He had now begged all the way 
to Peterfburgh, to apply to the Emperor 
himfelf for juftice, and to beg him to 
inquiré into the reafon of fuch a fhameful 
degradation from his poft. ‘The Emperor 
heard him to the end with patience; and 
then afked, in a fignificant tone, “* if there 
was no exaggeration in the ftory he had 
told?”> ‘* Let me die under the knout, 
(iaid the officer) if I fhall be found to 
have uttered one word of falfhood!”” The 
Emperor then beckoned to his brother, 
and charged him to conduét the ftranger 
to the palace, while he turned about to 
the expecting crowd. The commanding 
officer, who had behaved fo fhamefully, 
though of a good family, and a prince in 
rank, was reprimanded very teverely ; 
while the brave warrior, whom he had 
unjufly perfecuted, was reinftated in his 
former poft, and had befides a confidera- 
ble pretent from the Emperor. 
Every thing that favours of harfhnefs 
cr cruelty 1s abhorrent to the temper of 
this amiable Monarch: as an evidence of 
which we need only mention the well- 
known ftory of the torture inflicted on a 
poor Ruffian, who had fajlen under: the 
tufpicionof having wilfully fet fire to build- 
ings. No fooner was the good-natured Em- 
peror informed, that this poor wretch had, 
upon mére fufpicion, been puttothe rack in 
the moftinhuman manner; thathehad given 
up the ghot in the midk of torments, and 
afferted his innocence with his iaft breath, 
than he fent immediately an officer to 
Cafan, in order to inveftigate the matter 
to the bottem 5 and publifned at the fame 
Mr. Feremiah Fones. 
{April 1, 
time that remarkable edia, in confequence 
of which the term torture is for ever blot- 
ted out from the legal language of Ruffia. 
PIECES OF NEGLECTED BIOGRAPHY. 
R. JEREMIAH JONES, the 
learned author of ‘* A New and 
Full Method of Settling the Canonical 
Authority of the New Teftament,” fr 
publithed in 1726-7, received his aca- 
demical learning under his uncle, the 
Kev. Samuel Jones firft of Gloucefter, 
then of Tewkfbury, the tutor of Chand- 
ler, Butler and Secker. He was fellow- 
ftudent with the latter, in the year 1711, 
and was a diftinguifhed fcholar, when he 
entered upon academical ftudies. It is. 
apprehended, that he was a native of the 
North of England, and that his father 
was a gentleman in affluent circumftances. 
‘There was with him, at the above femi- 
nary, a younger brother, a youth of quick 
parts, who afterwards fettled as a Dif- 
fenting minifter at Manchefter. Mr. 
“Jones, foon after he had finifhed his courfe 
of preparatory ftudies, became the minif- 
ter of the congregation of Proteftant Dif- 
fenters, who affembled for worfhip in Fo- 
reft Green, Avening, Gloucefterthire, 
and refided at Nailfworth, where he alfo 
Kept an academy. He had the character 
of being an eminent linguift. He was 
popular, as a preacher ; for the place of 
worfhip was confiderably enlarged in his 
time. His difcourfes, yet, met with the 
approbation of the more judicious, for his 
falary amounted to one hundred pounds, 
per annum, and the whole fub{cription 
came from perfons of fuperior rank in life: 
Though a deep fcholar and hard ftudent, 
he was not a man of tevere manners ; but 
of an open and focial difpofition, and one 
of a bowling-party at a place, fill called 
the Lodge, on Hampton Common, at 
which healthy exercile he relaxed from his 
ftudies, and by his prefence and influence, 
preferved decorum in the company. His 
character fecured him the marked refpeét 
of a neighbouring clergyman. His anxiety 
to fulfil an engagement, which he had 
made, to perform fome minifterial fervice 
at a place on the other fide of the Severn, 
haftened his death. It efcaped his recol- 
lection, till the time drew near ; to pre- 
vent difappointment, he made fo much 
fpeed, that his tender conititution was in- 
jured by it, and a complaint contraéted, 
from which he never recovered. He died 
In 1724, aged 31. 
Mr. Jones’s firft publication was ‘*A 
Vindication of the former part of Saint 
Matthew's 
