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    Article THE SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE, AND FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY, FOR JANUARY 1797. ← Page 4 of 8 →
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The Scientific Magazine, And Freemasons' Repository, For January 1797.

press obtained early intelligence of every resolution formed agains ^ her person . She was thus enabled to seize the decisive moment of enterprize ; and' tp secure her safety by preventing the designs of her husband . . Indeed her danger became every day mere and more imminent , and the moment of her being arrested seemed at hand . A brick houseconsisting of eleven ' roomshadby the emperor ' s orderbeeii

, , , , constructed in the fortress of Schlusselburgh , for a person of very considerable consequence , arid with such expedition , as to be almostfinished within six weeks . Peter went himself to Schlusselburgh with a view to examine it : and np great depth of penetration was requisite to perceive that it was built for the empress . ' Ifi this important crisis a meeting of her party was held at Petersburg !! . This party was exarid her

tremely small , and , excepting the princess Daslikof , particular adherents , consisted only of a few among the principal nobility . The most conspicuous of these were prince Volkonski , count Panin , governor of the great-duke , and count Razomofski Hetman of the Ukraine . In the first consultations , for dethroning Peter III . it vfas proposed , according to the plan of chancellor Bestuchef , to declare the his and

great duke emperor , and Catharine regeiit'during minority ; this would have been the measure naturally followed in any country , wherein the order of succession was more fixed ' than in Russia . Nor was it but a few days before the revolution , thafthe inconvenience attending a minority , joined to the popularity and abilities of the eminduced the ' insurgents to adopt the resolution of placing her

press , upon tlie throne . At these meetings various plans of an insurrection were proposed ; but it was at length unanimously agreed to delay their attemp t , until Peter ' s departure for Holstein , when Catharine mig ht seize the capital during his absence , and ascend the throne . ' ' The arrest of one of the empress ' s adherents , a lieutenant in the . guards , whose namewas Passec , greatly alarmed her friends , as they their desi and h

concludud that the emperor had penetrated gn ; althoug they soon discovered that it had been occasioned by some irregularity of which he had been guilty as an oiilcer ; yet the consternation it had spread among them hastened the execution of their enterprize . Every nioment was big with danger ; and a discovery seemed inevitable , if the insurrection was tick } ed until the emperor ' s departure for Holstein . ' . . ¦ - - ¦ ____ _

The empress , however , who continued at Peterhnf , shuddered , at the advice to precip itate the hour of action : her resolution at _ this awful crisis , when immediate decision was necessary , seemed for a moment to fail , and she hesitated to assent ; but her party at Petersburg !] , convinced that the least delay would prove fatal , dispatched , on the evening of the 37 'th of June , " an empty carriage to Peterhof , the apitalCatharinewhose

pointed signal for her approach to the cap . , greatness of mind soon recurred to support her in this dreadful state ot agitation and suspence , instantly escaped from her apartment ; and , at three o ' clock in the morning , having traversed the garden alone to the p lace where the carriage was waiting for her , was conveyed with all soeed to Petersburg !! , It had been preconcerted , that count Panirj

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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.

press obtained early intelligence of every resolution formed agains ^ her person . She was thus enabled to seize the decisive moment of enterprize ; and' tp secure her safety by preventing the designs of her husband . . Indeed her danger became every day mere and more imminent , and the moment of her being arrested seemed at hand . A brick houseconsisting of eleven ' roomshadby the emperor ' s orderbeeii

, , , , constructed in the fortress of Schlusselburgh , for a person of very considerable consequence , arid with such expedition , as to be almostfinished within six weeks . Peter went himself to Schlusselburgh with a view to examine it : and np great depth of penetration was requisite to perceive that it was built for the empress . ' Ifi this important crisis a meeting of her party was held at Petersburg !! . This party was exarid her

tremely small , and , excepting the princess Daslikof , particular adherents , consisted only of a few among the principal nobility . The most conspicuous of these were prince Volkonski , count Panin , governor of the great-duke , and count Razomofski Hetman of the Ukraine . In the first consultations , for dethroning Peter III . it vfas proposed , according to the plan of chancellor Bestuchef , to declare the his and

great duke emperor , and Catharine regeiit'during minority ; this would have been the measure naturally followed in any country , wherein the order of succession was more fixed ' than in Russia . Nor was it but a few days before the revolution , thafthe inconvenience attending a minority , joined to the popularity and abilities of the eminduced the ' insurgents to adopt the resolution of placing her

press , upon tlie throne . At these meetings various plans of an insurrection were proposed ; but it was at length unanimously agreed to delay their attemp t , until Peter ' s departure for Holstein , when Catharine mig ht seize the capital during his absence , and ascend the throne . ' ' The arrest of one of the empress ' s adherents , a lieutenant in the . guards , whose namewas Passec , greatly alarmed her friends , as they their desi and h

concludud that the emperor had penetrated gn ; althoug they soon discovered that it had been occasioned by some irregularity of which he had been guilty as an oiilcer ; yet the consternation it had spread among them hastened the execution of their enterprize . Every nioment was big with danger ; and a discovery seemed inevitable , if the insurrection was tick } ed until the emperor ' s departure for Holstein . ' . . ¦ - - ¦ ____ _

The empress , however , who continued at Peterhnf , shuddered , at the advice to precip itate the hour of action : her resolution at _ this awful crisis , when immediate decision was necessary , seemed for a moment to fail , and she hesitated to assent ; but her party at Petersburg !] , convinced that the least delay would prove fatal , dispatched , on the evening of the 37 'th of June , " an empty carriage to Peterhof , the apitalCatharinewhose

pointed signal for her approach to the cap . , greatness of mind soon recurred to support her in this dreadful state ot agitation and suspence , instantly escaped from her apartment ; and , at three o ' clock in the morning , having traversed the garden alone to the p lace where the carriage was waiting for her , was conveyed with all soeed to Petersburg !! , It had been preconcerted , that count Panirj

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