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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
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
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