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The Scientific Magazine, And Freemasons' Repository,
THE SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE, AND FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY ,
FOR FEBRUARY 17 . 97 , BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF
HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY , PAUL I , EMPEROR OF ALL THE RUSSIAS , WITH A PORTRAIT ,
TO swell the record of splendid actions , or to rank conspicuous as a warrior or legislator , is the lot of but few momuchs even after the period of a long reign . The short period , however , for which Paul the First has governed Russia , has been graced with as many worthy deeds as have been performed in an equal space of time , by the greatest monarc-hs who have appeared on the vast theatre of the world .
PAUL PETROWITZ THE FIRST was born on the ist of October 1754 , The fate of his unfortunate father is well known ; and the ambition and intrigues of his mother , prevented his accession in his childhood to that throne which belonged to him by inheritance and the laws of his country . Excluded , therefore , from a crown to which , as he advanced in yearshe became sensible of his rightand holding in ab
, , horrence the promoters of the abdication and death of his father , he lived for the most part in retirement ; and seldom interfering in the politics of the empire , waited onl y for the death of the empress to enable him to , resent his own wrongs , and those of a parent . At length , on the eighteenth of October 179 6 , Catharine the Second paid the great debt of mortality ; and on the following day , Paul the First '
took possession of the throne of his father . The first act of the new Emperor ' s reign , after receiving the oaths of allegiance from his subjects , was : to nominate Count Ostermann Chancellor of the Empire , and to dismiss some of the favourites of the late Empress . Among these was Count Marcoffij who had been ' Jier principal adviser , and Prince Subpw . The natural benevolence
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Scientific Magazine, And Freemasons' Repository,
THE SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE, AND FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY ,
FOR FEBRUARY 17 . 97 , BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF
HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY , PAUL I , EMPEROR OF ALL THE RUSSIAS , WITH A PORTRAIT ,
TO swell the record of splendid actions , or to rank conspicuous as a warrior or legislator , is the lot of but few momuchs even after the period of a long reign . The short period , however , for which Paul the First has governed Russia , has been graced with as many worthy deeds as have been performed in an equal space of time , by the greatest monarc-hs who have appeared on the vast theatre of the world .
PAUL PETROWITZ THE FIRST was born on the ist of October 1754 , The fate of his unfortunate father is well known ; and the ambition and intrigues of his mother , prevented his accession in his childhood to that throne which belonged to him by inheritance and the laws of his country . Excluded , therefore , from a crown to which , as he advanced in yearshe became sensible of his rightand holding in ab
, , horrence the promoters of the abdication and death of his father , he lived for the most part in retirement ; and seldom interfering in the politics of the empire , waited onl y for the death of the empress to enable him to , resent his own wrongs , and those of a parent . At length , on the eighteenth of October 179 6 , Catharine the Second paid the great debt of mortality ; and on the following day , Paul the First '
took possession of the throne of his father . The first act of the new Emperor ' s reign , after receiving the oaths of allegiance from his subjects , was : to nominate Count Ostermann Chancellor of the Empire , and to dismiss some of the favourites of the late Empress . Among these was Count Marcoffij who had been ' Jier principal adviser , and Prince Subpw . The natural benevolence