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The archives contain alfo thirteen volumes cf letters, journals, notes, and other ma*Hufcripts, of Peter the Great , written with his ov.n hand ; thefe papers fuffiiciently fhowthe indefatigable pains with which that great Monarch noted down the minuted circum-fhtnces, that might prove ufeful in his extenfive plans for the civilization and aggran-dizement of his country. Muller has lately given to the public feveral letters and otherpieces of this kind, which throw a confiderable light upon the tranfaclions of Peter’sreign, and afford ftriking inftances of his perfevering genius.

From the archives we repaired to the univerfity, alfo fituated in the Khitaigorod : itwas founded at the indance of Count Shuvalof, by the Emprefs Elizabeth, for fixhundred dudents, who are cloathed, boarded, and inllrufted at the expence of thecrown. We were received, with great civility, by the dire&or of the univerfity andprofeifors, who conduced us fird to their printing-office. One of the preffes being atwork, feveral flieets were druck off and prefented to us as fpecimens of the Ruffian ty-pography; on examining them, we found a complimentary addrefs to ourfelves in theEnglifh and Ruffian languages.

We next proceeded to the univerfity library, which contains a final I collection ofbooks, and a moderate apparatus of experimental philofophy. On taking leave of thedirector, he obligingly prefented me with a Grammar of the Tartar language, which istaught in this fociety, a Syllabus of a year’s lectures, and a catalogue of the Greek ma-nufcripts in the library of the Holy Synod. An extract from the Syllabus* will dis-play to the reader the general dudies, and the principal books ufed in this univerfity forthe indrudtion of the dudents.

1. A courfe of lectures on the Hidory of the Ruffian Law, on Nettelbadianus, Syf-tema univerfa Jurfpriideniia , and on the Jus Cambiale ; eight hours a week. 2.'OnCicero’s Orations againd Catiline, the fixth book of Virgil’s iEneid, plays of Plautus and Terence, indruftions on the manner of writing Latin and Ruffian verfes, from theexamples of Horace and Lomonofof; an expofition of the panegyrical orations of Lo-monofof, together with tranflations and exercifes in Latin and Ruffian prole; eighthours a week. 3. On arithmetic, trigonometry, and optics, from Weidler’s Mathema -

Iverlky, Cartiliuiky, and Gruzenlky, Czar of the lands of Caherdinfky, Czerealky, and Duke of theMountains , and of many other dominions and countries, Eaft, Weil, and North, from Father, and fromGrandfather, Heir, Lord, and Conqueror.

Lord Carteret, in a letter to the Cardinal Dubois , writes; Le Roi concoura fans difficulte avec fa Ma-jefte tres Chretienne a faire ce que V. Eminence jugera convtnable, par rapport au nouveau litre que leCzar demande, et un parfait concert a faire efperer a ce Prince une telle complaisance pour fervir a le gagner,et a nous faire tirer fruits de fon ambition,. Jan. 30, 172 1-2.

And in a difpatch to Sir Lnke Schaub, he thu3 exprcfles himfelf; La coutoume icy a toujours eted’ecrire aux Czars de Mofcovie fur du velin enlumine peint et dorc, comme on fait an* Empereurs de Ma-roc et Fez, et a plufieurs autres Princes non-Europeens lefquels felon cette coutume feroient egalernent fon-dez d’infiller lurletitre d’Empereur. On n’a jamais voulu changer 1 ’nfage etably, quoique les Mofcovitesl’ayent fort folicitc durant I’ambadade de my Lord Whitworth a Mofcow. Ce miniftre s’excufa toujoursd’en faire la propofition. II leur dit, qu’il leur donneroit le titre, fans difficulte, tel qu’il le trouvoit ctabli;niais qu’il neleur confeilloit pas de remucr cette matiere, ni de s’eclaircir trop foignt ufement fur quel piedon leur donnoit ce titre. Les Mofcovites crurent fon avis bon pour lore. Qoand my Lord Whitworth etMr. l’Amiral Norris furent chargez d’une commiffion auprez du Czar a AmUcrdam, ils n’eurent que deslettres de cachet, dont le llile etoit Volte Majejie ; les miniilres Rulfiens en firent d’abord quelque fcrupule,mais n’y infiltererf; pas.

Thefe extradts are drawn from Sir Lube Schaub’s State Papers, in the rare and ample colledlion ofthe Earl of Hardwicke, a nobleman as diftinguilhed for the extent, as the liberal communication of Irisknowledge.

* It is entitled, " Catalogus prade&ionum publicarum in Univerfnate Caefarea Mofquenfi habendarnm.”

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