Ri ! & ¥; & yr : : 4 4 ~ brs yD 1 i io ; ¥ wal Cogs Ge Ee WO MEd Ba Xo ERO 2, WTR TSN | cowected with that of Catharine seemed © to portzke with her the throne on which 3 | *3n all the ‘vigoun-of age. ysence of Oilow Glled the intervals between x % EY AL self thus master of the field of battle, which + charmed Catharine. tte ee to ppc a——— Tri \ Fo el FROM THE NATIONAL x : 2 Son ype gp a 8 Pe HT HANS ! i nde TA Deveson as BEY glory. These two jrreat Tet » pRaracterd sermed to have been created for FOREIGN BIOGRAPHY PAaractert emadito have been crbated. jor : one another : they loved and ga ¥send you some sketches of the fa Rach othar when they ceased to be amor: vontites of Catharine the 2d, vanslatediyy,: ond politcs and ambition chained them fon a French work intitled “Memoir. geether when love ceased to operate, Senrets sar La Russie,” They will MOLL; created, or destroyed, or embroiled doit, be interosting'to the reader, as ¢V-devery thing; but he vivified all. When ; ery thing must be so, connected with thal ahsent, they spoke not but of him ; when cxiraordinary woman, who wielded with sO hresent it was him alone whem the saw. muh skill the destinics of so vast anf The oreat who hated him, and who énjoy- empire, 2d some ' character while he was 1. SERGEUS SOLTYRKOW, with the army, seemed at his appearance Was the frst lover of Catharine. Iii sink imo the carth, and to be anninil #5 said alsothat he had her first ‘Tavoursifated before him. The princede Ligine, hile Grand Dachess because Peter the 3d who wrote him seme flatieries, said, that Jibriived under a physical’ inability. Hef! Te Wore SOME gizantic,. some romantic, wus considered in Russsia 23 the true fach- ‘nd some barbarous bois in his charac. wy of Paul. Soltykow became indiscree!, ter: andat was true. His death created mind was banished the court by Biigabeth Al immense void in the empire yand this Fo Fed in exile. : oath yas as i pd as i life. ho dd 3 Sa J 2 11e had passed almost a year in retcrs- 3 STANISLAUS PONIATOWSKY, ug tenrocing RAE tp to all sorts Bon caused he first to be forgotten Job pleasure and debautheties, forgetting IRE meaudtulgailant, and spuited Hudhis. ilo and displays A his siches a ' his credit with an insulting fastidhousness, tH: received the grandees of the empire as his valset, and scarcely deigted to per- clive tbe drele Poul, and passed sometimes n:o the appartments of Cathatine with naked legs, dishevelled hair, and in a Yobe de chamber. The oid Repun proffited by his absence from the army, to beat he Turks and compe! them to sue for peace ; and perform move in two months than Potemkin had done in three years. He who wished still to drag on the war, awoke at this news, and departed: but he car ried death in bis blood. He arrived at Jas- sy, which bad been a long time his head quarters, or rather his capital and his court; he is gloomy, melancholy, devoured by in- vietude, and impatient of his malady. i endavoured to contend with it; and to nade him happy. Petre seldom troubled them, tho” he was a Little jealous, and he prefered his pipe, his bottle, his soldiers, and his mistress to his amiable wife, Cath- -arine, wien she became Empress, male him king of Poland. Hi disastrous reign (Proved ihal when love gives a Crown itis _&s blind as fayour in distributing credit anc employments, Stanislaus was the most amiable of men, and most indifferent of + Rings. ite had ay Jeast when the tron- pics commenced in Poland, abdicajcda throne which be .dishonoured, he would have oxcited some interest ; bug he pro- rQuced only contempt. Of all the favorites of Cathasine, Stanislaus was the only one she seemed desivous to hummliate, after Faisteg She was indulgent io love, but implacable in politics; because pride was conquer it by temperament of iron. He her ruling passion=~and love was always laughed at his physicians, & norished him- gaastered by the empress sclf with salt meat and raw turnips: His 5 GREGORY GRLOW, jisaascs triugphing, he wished to be pl Be Ty d — il transtorted “10. Dischakow, hig dear con- _ Vigoss favour Was SQ long anc 80 BIIi-}quest ; but scarcely had he proceeded many lian®and whose history is so essentially versts, when the air of his carriage seemed to suffocate him. They spread his mantle “ie bad placed her. He united all the posw- ‘ersand ull the honotirs which were alter- wards seen to decorate Poremkin 2nd sur- ‘ehares Zoubow. Although he was young and robust his brother Alexis, of an Her- veulenn sirenpth and the form of Gohah, associated with high in his “peculiar fone- tions, near the insatiable Calbarine, then She had by Gregory an ayowed son whose name was Dasicle Gregorewitach Bobrinsky, whom she catised to be elevated to the corps of sddets, and of whom admiral Ribas and expired in the arms of his niece, Brauitska, who accompanied hima. Catha- rine, upon the news of his death fainted three times; she could not be bled, and they supposed her dying; she displayed nearly the same grict upon the death of Lanskoi. But it was not merely a lover she lost; it was a friend whose genius was indentified in hers ; whom she regarded as the pillar of her throne and the executor of her vast designs. Catharine seated upun a usurped throne, hated by her son, was a woman, and timed; she was accustomed to sec dp Ne a ii ....: yg ON, ! in Bellefonte, Penusylvama. igs many yeatsy Io vain, the permissionto Appear at Petersburg; but Catharine wenld not grant it. Paul, however, alerwards caljed him to court. 8. XORSAKAW, A species of Rustin perit-maitre, elevated from the holy guard of the palace, (where he pertarmed the fu of a sergant, and where Catharine observed him) to the bed of his sovereign. He was ungrateful and faithless. Catharine surprised him herself, on her own bed, holding in his arms the beautiful countess Brute, her maid of hon: otry and her confidant. tired, and would not again. see either her lovet or her friend.==She took on him no other vengeance. : ro 9. LANSKOI An officer of the chevalier guards, had already became rem@kable. He was ve- ry soon the most favoured lover, and ape parud the most wor thy of being so. He was beapsiful, distinguished for swesines end grace, plover of the arts, a fiend to talents, humane and be neficient. every bo- dy seemed to partake, in his favour, the predilecation of the sovereign. He hod per- haps acquired, by the qualities of his mind, as much credit, as those of his heait pros cured Lim partisans. Poterakin feared him, and, it is <aid, poisoned him. He died in a violent fit of the cholic. Catharine Amazed she res] 8 wigan SN x A Su favour in money jewelsy plate, presents and pension, Prince Potemkin, in the two first : years, 9,000,008 He had besides several large estates in Poland and Russia. . One of his book cases ‘was full of gold diamonds, and bills of exchange estimated at Zoritch, in one year, besides se- veral badges ot distinction, Korgakof, in 16 months, in mo- ney, jewels, &c. Lanskol, Yermaloff, in 16 months, Mombonoff, in 26 months, Zubot, besides the title of Prince, and several otlier hon. : orary rewards, 2,700,000 The expenditure of gach favorite which Catharite defrayed was estimated ot 1,250 00 rubles per apmun. 4 WAR) 41,000800 1,280,000 £920,000 3.260.000 550,600 880,000 Er —" * A ruble is valued at 4s. sterling. From the National Intelligencer, Oct. 17, We have published to-day an accoumt of the public meeting at New Oileans, ves pecting the late attack on the Firebrand by lavished on him in vain, her most tender a Spanish squadron. iduttes her lin 3 $3 ; oe ! ERR 4 a ; assiduity; Le: ps received. his Fast SIE It would be uncandid, if not unjust, ines, She shut herself up many doys; which she! : : : psscd in dispeir. She accused the jus-{%0 omit stating, at the same time: we pub vice of heaven: wished to die; ceased to lish these proce dings, that we have pri. Lo a swore to love no Roe, Bhe vate information from New Orleans, that ove oansko! truly: her grief exc ; i au] y 5 ACUEd) yore were circumstances attending this on the edge of the road, on which he laid, Ber indignation against the physician, who! was wnable to save him; he was obliged to throw hims:If at the feet of his sovereign of his art. she bore the logs of her lover; and a new Artemisa, she-grected forhum a ‘superb ausolcutimoad Teaskue Telo She suf- fered more than a year to pass before she Ephesus, she gave him an unworthy suc- cessor; and this was. 10. YERMOLOW, “The least amiable and the least clcgant of all those whoin she had chosen; who consoled her at last for the beautiful, the tender Lanskoi He however, displease Potemkin, before he ceased to please Catharine ; and the haughty favourite de- mand and obtained the dismissal of the lover, who had not been two years In the performance of the duties. 11, MOMONOW, Who had disputed her favor with him, then principal of the corps was the gover- for Two beautiful maids of honour Pro-| fasow, the first feme.de.chambre raised as her nieces, passed for the children of Cath- arinc and Orlow. It was for this cele- brated favourite that she caused to be rected the gloomy palace of marble. where she had the smprudence to have en- gravad this inscription, «By greatfial friendship.” The Chateau of Gatschina is still a monmment of prince Orlow. 12 years of enjoyment, and the pride of this Jover finaly fixed his sovereign firmly on the tb and aiter a long opposition Potemkin succeeded. The teiumph of his rival and the ‘inconstancy -of catharine, whom he hanghtily called ingrate, had \ / such an effect on him that he finally lost 1 this h ‘aad reason. The proud, in Potemkin a protector, whose for- une and glory were closely linked to her’s: she seemed to think herself a stranger; she began to fear her son; and it was then she rested on her little grandson, Alexan- der, who was just out of his infancy, and be: gan to oppose his father. That “which distinguishes Potemkin froma all his coleagues is, that in lossing the heart of the empress he never lost her oon- fidence; when ambition had occupied the place of love he still preserved his credit; and it was he who gave new lovers to his mistress. All the favorites who succeed- cd him where subordinates. ZORITECH, tas the 7th lover on whom the incon- stant Catharine cast her eye. He was the only stranger whom she had dared to create her favorice during her reign. He was a Serviar, and had escaped trom the bagne of constentinople, where he had been a prisoner. He appeared for the first time iy the habbit of a busser at court ; his bean- {iy was extraordinary: the old women stil} speak of him as an Adonis. He bad not, however, a mind sufficiently cultivated to captivate that @i Catharine: she sent him off at the end ofa year, covered with fiches Tone: \ Ts HET A ¢ “the powerful, the brilliapt Orlow, died in la state of homible madness, besmearing | bis visage ith excrements, which he \ orished as ansther Ezekiel. 4 WASILTS CHILKOW, § 5 . . i Whom Panion produced durimg the: ab. cree rivals, He yas but an mgtru- nleasures of Catharine, 5. POT EMKIN, i tho two fi BR ent oi til o~ “ succeeded. Momonow was amiable and had a perfect face, but was badly proportioned. He became enamoured of the young prio cess Scherbatowy and had the courage to avow’ it, ahd requested permission to espouse her, Catharine was sufficiently generous and ‘haughty to grant him his request, without reproaching him She married him at her court with her maid of honour, and sent them tO Moscow loaded with riches. 12. ZOUBOW Was not yet 25 years old, Catharine fore than 60. She finished by treating him-as much like her son as her lover; ‘Ishe occupied herself with his education; and she attached herself more and morc to her work, which became her idol. ‘However her loose desires were not yet extinguished; and all at once she renewed the orgies which she had celebrated with the brothers, Orloff, Valerio, one of the brothers of Zoubow, more young and more robust than him, 2nd the vigo- rous Peter Soltikow, their friend, were associated ' together in order to relieve cach other ina career SO dificult to be sccomplished.® Tt “fas with thesc threc young libertines that Catharine, the old Catharine, passed ber days—while her He obtained the city of Schklow, which was erected for him into a species of sovereignty—a solitary example in Russia. He lived there as a prince holding a court and receiving strangers. I he was enrich- ed by the spoils of the state, he generous ly rendered it back a part. He founded it Selhklow a corps of cadets, where he caused to be educated, at his own expense, 200 young officers: In spite of his “occu- nations, the amusements spectacles and pleasures which he enjoyed, he wes Qis- ‘He came one day boldly to seize for hime se¥f the apartment of his predecessor; aud attested his victory by render hime | ad been so long disputed, His passion | his bardihood and his colossal form, had He was the only one + of her favorites who dared to become . lover, aad to spare her thos: advances which The was always oblidged to make Heappeared even truly and romantically amine: Ec addered at fist thay Sov larmics beat the Turks. cut the throats lof the Swedes, and devastated the aunfor- {tunete Polanders; and while her peopic cn led out with misery and famine, and were | devoured by rue} exactors pitiless tyrants. This was the last of Catharine’s favour- lites She died suddenlyin a short time afterwards. The following i3 an estimate of the cresents received by her favourites; : Rubles* Fregory Orloff, {transaction and ask her forgiviness for the impotence A widow decent and afllicted, replaced him; but like another. matron of which serve to palliate Hsap- ‘parent atirosity The information we have received we should not pretend fo oppose 116 official information 4 butt has the sancy tion of a nape, and appears to us to require: 's suspension of opinion until more. full Jae formation is received. The particular ‘facts stated tous by our correspondent we should lay before our readers, if we could do so with propricty before we receive cop 'firmation of them. Abstractedly viewed, the attack on thg Fircbrand, if she was known to be an Hi» ‘States vessel, wasa most wanton ouirage, ‘such as the Spanish government would not \in common prudence avow or authorize, ‘since it is in the power of the U. States at a word to strike to the vitals of Spain in her colonies. Itis therefore prebable the at- tack, base and dastardly as it is represent: ed to have been, will be instantly disavowe ed by the Spanish governmant, and its ap thors punished, or delivered up to usfor punishment——an atonement, the demand of which will prevent war. In the much, more attrocious case of the Chesapeake, aggravated by every cincumstance of cold blended malice, this course pointed out by the laws of nations, and by the rule of reas son, was pursued, a But if there are circumstances not gen- erally understood in this ease; for instance, if the Firebrand was many leagues wests ward of New Oileans, on the Spanish coast; if she was in company with a vege sel loaded with munitions of war from New Orleans, destined for a Mcxican reve olutionary province; if one of the most em inent bamisters of Neworleans was on board the vessci (the General Jackson) thus in company with tie Firebrand as a Supercargo; if the character of cur ar- med schooner was in that sitmatien tobe mistéken, notwithstanding her colours, for a Carthagenian or other republican arm- vessel; if there be any foundation for these & other circumstances, of which we’ are by leiter assured, the case 13 certainly tered, and is involved in some perpiex ity, which it requires time and evidence to dis entangle. i The £vert is ap unfortunate Loe, Ju any CR ST
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