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