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The Scientific Magazine, And Freemasons' Repository, For January 1797.

half ; was on horseback hy break of day ; and proceeded about four miles further , to the convent of St . Sergius at Strelna ; into which she retired while the troops encamped around . While the revolution was carrying on at Petersburgh , the emperor remained in his palace at Oranienbaum , from whence he had made unsuccessful attempts to obtain possession of the strong fortress of

Cronstadt , or to make his escape to Holstein . The great policy , therefore , on the side of Catharine , was to obtain possession of his person without effusion of blood , and to amuse him , without driving him to desperate measures : for she was well aware that it was yet in his power with his Holstem troops to defend himself to the last extremity , or by his escape to involve the empire in all the horrors of civil war . The judicious

manner in which she conducted this delicate affair , shews her no less able in the arts of negociation , than in the spirit of enterprize . On the first news of the revolution , the emperorhad dispatched general Ismailofwith a message to the empress , offering to resign his crown , upon condition that he should be permitted to retire into Holstein with his mistress Vcrontzof and his favourite Godovitch . But

the wisdom of Catharine soon saw the impolicy of permitting this . She , therefore , calmly represented to Ismailof the madness of any attempt to oppose her now in full possession of sovereign authority ; she pointed to her troops who were posted in large bodies upon the adjacent grounds ; adding , that Peter ' s resistance would only draw on himself and his party the vengeance of an enraged army ; and , therefore ,

proposed that the emperor should repair to Pcterhof where the terms of his abdication should be adjusted . Ismailof , now finding the tide of success turned on the side of die empress , arid perceiving the clergy , the army , and the principal nobles , engaged in her cause , was COIITvinced that nothing was left to Peter but submission . Seduced by the insinuating eloquence and engaging address of the empress , he undertook to persuade his unhappy masterby immediate submissipnto

, , save an effusion of blood , which could be productive of no effectual advantage to his cause . With this view he returned to Oranienbaum between ten and eleven , and found the emperor in the palace with Munic , Elizabeth Vprontzof Godovitch , and others , anxiously expecting his arrival . Having retired into another apartment , the result of their conference was , that in less than an hour the emperor , with Eli-r

zabeth Vorontzof , Godovitch , and Ismailof , entered the carriage , in which the latter had returned to Oranienbaum . Peter quitted that palace without a single guard or attendant ; but he had scarcely proceeded a mile , before a corps of Hussars , of the empress ' s ' party , surrounded the carriage , and accompanied it to Peterhof , where he arrived about half past twelve . He was immediately separated from his

companions . The empress declined a personal conference ; but sent count Paniu , who was admitted alone . What passed during this awful interview between that nobleman and his deposed sovereign , is not , nor probably ever will be , disclosed to the public ; but nothing can ' convey a stronger , picture of the emperor ' s weakness and pusillar nimiiy , than the formal abdication which was the result of their coy * versation .

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LONDON: Article 3
THE PROPRIETOR TO THE SUBSCRIBERS. Article 4
TO READERS, CORRESPONDENTS, &c. Article 5
THE SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE, AND FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY, FOR JANUARY 1797. Article 6
ON SUICIDE AND MADNESS. Article 14
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE. Article 16
THE GHOST OF STERNE IN LONDON. Article 20
ESSAYS ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH HISTORY AND CLASSICAL LEARNING. Article 24
LETTERS FROM LORD ESSEX TO QUEEN ELIZABETH. Article 31
THE DYING MIRA, A FRAGMENT. Article 32
ANECDOTES. Article 33
REMARKABLE RESEMBLANCE IN TWO TWIN BROTHERS. Article 35
SINGULAR INSTANCE OF A CAPACITY TO ENDURE ABSTINENCE AND HUNGER IN A SPIDER. Article 36
ABSENCE OF MIND. Article 37
FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY. Article 38
MASONRY FOUNDED ON SCRIPTURE. Article 38
ROYAL CUMBERLAND SCHOOL. Article 43
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY. Article 45
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 45
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Article 46
POETRY. Article 54
THE AFFLICTED PARENTS, AN ELEGY Article 54
TO THE MEMORY OF LAURA. Article 55
ODE ON CLASSIC DISCIPLINE. Article 55
LINES Article 56
IMITATION OF SHAKSPEAR, Article 56
SONNET. Article 57
TO THE GLOW-WORM. Article 57
SONG. Article 57
EPITAPH ON A BEAUTIFUL BOY. Article 57
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 58
REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. Article 60
HOUSE OF COMMONS. Article 60
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 66
OBITUARY. Article 75
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The Scientific Magazine, And Freemasons' Repository, For January 1797.

half ; was on horseback hy break of day ; and proceeded about four miles further , to the convent of St . Sergius at Strelna ; into which she retired while the troops encamped around . While the revolution was carrying on at Petersburgh , the emperor remained in his palace at Oranienbaum , from whence he had made unsuccessful attempts to obtain possession of the strong fortress of

Cronstadt , or to make his escape to Holstein . The great policy , therefore , on the side of Catharine , was to obtain possession of his person without effusion of blood , and to amuse him , without driving him to desperate measures : for she was well aware that it was yet in his power with his Holstem troops to defend himself to the last extremity , or by his escape to involve the empire in all the horrors of civil war . The judicious

manner in which she conducted this delicate affair , shews her no less able in the arts of negociation , than in the spirit of enterprize . On the first news of the revolution , the emperorhad dispatched general Ismailofwith a message to the empress , offering to resign his crown , upon condition that he should be permitted to retire into Holstein with his mistress Vcrontzof and his favourite Godovitch . But

the wisdom of Catharine soon saw the impolicy of permitting this . She , therefore , calmly represented to Ismailof the madness of any attempt to oppose her now in full possession of sovereign authority ; she pointed to her troops who were posted in large bodies upon the adjacent grounds ; adding , that Peter ' s resistance would only draw on himself and his party the vengeance of an enraged army ; and , therefore ,

proposed that the emperor should repair to Pcterhof where the terms of his abdication should be adjusted . Ismailof , now finding the tide of success turned on the side of die empress , arid perceiving the clergy , the army , and the principal nobles , engaged in her cause , was COIITvinced that nothing was left to Peter but submission . Seduced by the insinuating eloquence and engaging address of the empress , he undertook to persuade his unhappy masterby immediate submissipnto

, , save an effusion of blood , which could be productive of no effectual advantage to his cause . With this view he returned to Oranienbaum between ten and eleven , and found the emperor in the palace with Munic , Elizabeth Vprontzof Godovitch , and others , anxiously expecting his arrival . Having retired into another apartment , the result of their conference was , that in less than an hour the emperor , with Eli-r

zabeth Vorontzof , Godovitch , and Ismailof , entered the carriage , in which the latter had returned to Oranienbaum . Peter quitted that palace without a single guard or attendant ; but he had scarcely proceeded a mile , before a corps of Hussars , of the empress ' s ' party , surrounded the carriage , and accompanied it to Peterhof , where he arrived about half past twelve . He was immediately separated from his

companions . The empress declined a personal conference ; but sent count Paniu , who was admitted alone . What passed during this awful interview between that nobleman and his deposed sovereign , is not , nor probably ever will be , disclosed to the public ; but nothing can ' convey a stronger , picture of the emperor ' s weakness and pusillar nimiiy , than the formal abdication which was the result of their coy * versation .

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