1606. | 
concern beheld this veteran appear for 
the laft time in the drama of Albert, in 
1797. 
Jelagin has tranflated fevers] French 
tragedies and comedies, and has exhibit- 
ed Jean de Mollé on the theatre in a man- 
ner highly inftructive to parents. 
The comedy of The Lover in Debt 
was from the pen cf Prince Fedor Alexi- 
owitz Kolowfky. Death prevented him 
from completing the tragedy of Sumbe- 
ka, the fubject of which is extra&ted from 
the Hiltory of Cafan. 
Prince Kolowfky loved the arts, was 
a fincere friend anda brave foldier. In 
2769 he was fent to Italy as a courier to 
Count Alexis Orlow. On this occafion 
he went to fee Voltaire. He fought at 
the bat:le of Tfchefme in the St. Euttace, 
and was unfortunately blown up with that 
fhip. Cherafkow, in a poem on the 
battle, applies the following words to this 
Prince : Child of the Mufes, why didi&t 
thou turn afide to Bellona, when thy path 
conducted thee towards Apollo ?” 
Lukin has writtentwo plays, The Pro- 
digal amended by Love, and The Silly 
Chatterer. 
Magnizky, a ferf of Count Jacufchin- 
fky, was fent to Italy by his matter to 
improve his talents for mufic. Having 
made confiderable progrefs in that art, he 
wrote and fet to mufic The Inn, a high- 
ly efteemed opera, which has been repre- 
fented fifteen times fucceflively. 
Ruffia likewife reckons among her dra- 
matic authors many others, as Werew- 
kin, Jelfenaninow, Karin, Cherafkow, 
who wrote Mofcow Preferved. We might 
likewife mention Prokudin, Snkolow, an 
author and aétor, Titow, Tfchertkow, 
Trofilnetyn, whofe produétions, perform. 
ed at Kiow, have never been printed. 
With the exception of Major-General 
Kopiew and the privy-counfellor Cheraf 
kow, all the writers mentioned above are 
dead ; but various authors.are labouriny 
to augment the riches of the Ruffian the- 
atre. The tragedy of Thamas Kuli 
Khan, by Glewiltfchikow, who is like. 
wife an aéter, has been feveral times re- 
prefented. He has alfo made an actempt 
atcomedy. Jijin, the author of Life, or 
the Triumph of Gratitude, is a young 
man of great promife; as is Federow, 
, whole Love and Virtue, and Ruffian Sol- 
Giet, have recenily been very favourably 
received, 
The tafte of the Ruffians is forming 
every day. They protect the arts and 
feiences, which they are worthy of invit- 
ing among them, notwithitanding the fe- 
MonTHLY Mac, No. 140. 
Gleanings in Natural Hiftory: 
117. 
verity of their climate. The immortal 
Catherine herfelf fet them the example. 
We ought to have placed that great Prin: 
cefs at the head of the authors of whom 
Ruffia boafts. To her the nation was in- 
debted for the opera of Iwan Tfarewit{ch, 
Gore Bogatyr, and Fedul; and for va- 
rious comedies, among the reft, The 
Prefumptuous Philofopher. Catherine 
the Great knew how to unite on her head 
crowns of many widely different kinds, 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
GLEANINGS 72 NATURAL HISTORY. 
: THE LION. 
(From the Travels of the Sieur Frejus in 
Mauritania.) Me 
T is true there be very many lions 
in Mauritania ; but that (as it is faid) 
the Arabs take the pains to breed them up, 
and feed them amongft their flocks, is a 
perfect mockery. If it happen, as fome- 
times it doth, that an Arab finds a lion’s 
den in which there are fome young ones 
newly whelped, he prefently carries them 
to the Chriftians, tc fee if they will buy 
them. ThusI had two brought me, a 
male anda female, which I brought up 
for two or three years fotame, that they 
went up and down our warehoufe amongtt 
our antelopes and fuch other creatures. 
The male lion was fo familiar, though a 
great one, that he often came and lay with 
me, and once did me very gaod fervice ; 
‘for in a@ moonfhine night fome Arabs 
came up into my chamber, witha defign to 
have robbed me ; but as foon as they faw 
a lion lying by me, they ran away, crying 
out one to another, endon feba—‘* There 
is a lion.” 
ber, and feeing my door open, and hear- 
ing the Arabs fay this, he came in, waken- 
ed me, and told me what happened. This 
male lion was very tame, but the lionefs 
was mifchicvous, and fhe once hurt a 
little Moor, and complaint was prefently 
made to the Governor, who took them 
away from me, and put them between 
four walls ; but not long after there fell 
great rains, which flung down the walls, 
which were only made of mud, and in 
the night-time the lions got out, went 
into a ftable which was open, over againft 
the king’s palace, and being almoit fa- 
mifhed, they made a great flaugh‘er among 
the horfes and mules. This made fo great 
a noife, that the whole town was alarmed, 
every one ran to his arms, and thus my 
poor lions were killed. 
Once 
This Mr. Amabrique told — 
me, who accidentally was out of his cham. — 
