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THURSDAY, January ii, 1781.
TANARUS: H E
GEORGIA
“SAVANNAH : Printed by
dn AA T IDO TE ag a i nfi Sh AVERY , exemplified
in fame detached Olfervations on the Condition of
the Human Species i.i the RnjfJian Empire.
jraotOK* F all countries under the fun
3&Jj( (Turkey not excepted) Rufli i is
the place where, Yearningly
yg law*, actompani
a P re£t ‘ nded police and
W W municipal regulation, tie people
/TV. J* are rendered moil miserable. —•>
there has fuperleded all the rights of nature.
“Man is in Rulli.i an article of commerce, ancl is
daily bought and fold at market like any other
commodity.
Children are here daily forced froth their moth
ers arms, to be fold to - persons given up to de
bauchery. The joy which other people feel on the
birth of their legitimate children is heie unknown.
This event, on the contrary, is a forrowful one to
mmm
” taker, away from her at the irtflant he is playing at
her knee: she suckles him, And takes a great deal
Os trouble in bringing him up; he. grows, and the
time approaches when (lie is in continual appre
hension oflofing him; she can never flatter heefeif
that in this beloved child she /hall find a friend and
a support in her old age. If, when fomewlut far
ther advanced in life, the child perceives the tear
Parting from his mother’s eye, in confluence of
these dreadful reflexions, he asks her the reufon,
preScs and bedews her cheeks with his tears, he
intreats her to difclole tp him the ciufe of her grief,
and thefeene ends with mutual Toothings, ..embra
ces, and overflowings of nature, too pungent and
Jamentable'to admit of defeription.
H The meanest animals enjoy the happiness caused
% by the birth of their young : Man, in Russia, is the
lOnJy being who cannot partake of it. This depra
| vity ftifies all lentiment, every idea of jultice, every
|tayofTeafo n The people in genera! are wicked
| and abandoned, m proportion to the difeourage
ment theyjneet in their endeavours to be
virtuous. They commit the moft abominable and
I locking vices, under the fanftion of law or gof
■pe . To fuin up the whole, a man mull be a
I ?° n bc a S ood and, according to
their doaripes, may be a very devil, ahd retain
I ?i he P r ‘ nc, P‘ es good Chrillian, which com
I r U l ° b [ erv, " g externals of what they call the
rec urch. Here it is a prime proof of pacd-
TV ° n 'y to betray your friend, nay your
I father, but even to charge him fa'feiy, and bring
Ifcm to an ignommiou. death, if the Minitlerin one
Ijnl ance, or the Lord m the other, require it; and
I*? co_-femorfe am„d, the commission of any
| crime, if the perpetrator k eonftious that at all
I he'd T- in S? S SSm of the form, of
I the . fuperJhfions he has been taught to
P^ as fa gMliihed religion -of his-country °
SJ Oiapped^^
joe ) .is infer ted in his works an anecdote in full
of the morals unH f 1
WKerc att ibuted P 1 and /eogtous sentiments
I A A d U • thlS natlon barbarians,
ibeingalked Cre [n th ng condemned, and
If , f . lh c coutfc of his trial, whether he
S’ n, ° ckcd to the
|in-vhathecllM U a * VC ” ***s*&
Ift “r aft anrS-A t 0 God X mon
la A‘t of r„| P tbecour i e of the trial, headed
Konth't Plund f ed ’ robb < d > ad -as
complied with M preliminary was
i new frf rip, Jf - ° 1,1 ‘*“ a , Mms being rather
udges what coni f ? JOyn ? e ’! t ’ hc WM asked by his .
*?** ‘'^Ke e tctd d Sr orfions acd con
■
An affeSling Account of the RujfianTu n't foment cat
fed the Knout, by M. VAbbe Cbappt dAuter
ache. _ -
EVERY body who *as been at St. Peterfburgh
knows that Madame Lapouchin w.as one of
tke finefl women belonging to the Ruffian court.
She was intimately connected with a foreign Am
bafVdor ei .'aged in a coni piracy. Madame La
pauchin, wno was supposed to be an accomplice,
was condemned to kilter the punifiuftent of the
Knout. She appeared at the place of execution in
ageneral undress, which contributed to heighten
her beauty. The sweetness of her countenance,
-and her vivacity, were such as might indicate indif.
cretion, but not even the shadow of guilt, though
she was generally thought to be guilty. One of
the executioners pulling off a kind of cloak ‘that
coveied her loveiy bofoin; her modesty took the
infttintfy
turned pa.e, and burit into tears. - Her cloaths
were soon after dripped oil, arid in .a few moments
flie was quite naked to the waist, exposed to the
eager looks of avail concourse of people. One of
the executioners then seized her bv both hands,
andl turew her on his back, whilst another laid hold
ot her deacate limbs, and after placing her proDerly,
and fontetimes brutally beating her head to keep it
down he took up a whip called Knout; made of
a ong ltrap of leather ; He then retreated a few
Heps, ineafuring the requisite diftnnee with a Heady
eye ; and leaping backwards, gave a stroke with
the end of the whip, so as to carry away a flip of
t ! , n fr ° m . , the L ncc y to the bottom of the back :
I hen linking his feet against the ground, he took
ins aim for applying a second blow parallel to the
former; so that in a few moments all the skin of
her back was cut away in iinaU flips, mo* of which
remained hang.ng to her Amt. Her tongue was
t en cut out, and lhe was direXly baniihed to Si
beria. ; In 1762 flie was recalled from exile.
A* Account of tbs Rtception of a Dutch Ambnjfador
by the Emperor of Japan .
A PERSON in the fuitc o f an ACatick ambaf
nd - e 2 letter to
: , f d ’ c ‘ But thou g , > 1 found the inl.abi
tarns fir frou) engaging in general, yet the Dutch -
merchiims who ar e permitted to trade there are
till mote dcteibble: they have ihcreafed my dis
like o Europe ; by them I learn how low avlrice
can degrade human nature, how many mdigmt.es
an European wtli fuffer for gain. I was pXt at
an audience given by the emperor to the Dutch en
-*rr feme ‘ ent P , * fentlo 211 the cour
1, lT Y ys pr e V,ous t 0 his admission ; but he
S3Bf t 0 lt,end those deli s ned for p- ■
7^"fofi^pmmp.td d me e m d be a f^lo'r
‘ ii 1 Ih f tHnc,ed the honors mult hive re
a uu'a tro^ l^ h ° nours * but * bout •
i,wrmrn f? h after the P refen ' s were carried
orw"“d P The 6 tCV ° y “ and hiS train Werc height:
wkh’loL M F COVCr ' d from he4d
their W;w b r kV ! S ’ w !' lch Pt ev ented their feeing
Vom 7h/ a Ch e WaS S d b / 2 tonduftor, chofeu
trojm the meanefl of the people.
the citv of S redo on , o h Urable l mann “’ havi “B tr aversed
U ’ at . * en g'h arrive.l at the pa
ad:S’i„t;he f guard a "oo 8 m hal H an “T’
mm r rere i, an “'“
cnee Uft ph‘ UCr?dUCCd thcm into the hall audf.
a kfod at ,eng lt h fe r en
’hrofio ‘ envo / was conduXed towards Se
raTr’ h t °° n a ? he had approached within a
ccrutr. rilihnee, the gentlemaß uflter cried out
&OY A L
GAZETTE.
JAMES JOHNSTON.
with a loud voice, Holanda Capilain! On these
words the envoy fell flat on the ground, and crept
upon his h uids and feet towards the throne. When
he was come near to it, he reared on his knees, and
then bowed his forehead to the ground. Thi*
ceremony being over, he wasdireXed to withdraw,
Hill grovelling on his belly, and moving back
wards
“ Men must be excessively fond of riches when
they are earned with such circumitances ofabjeX
fubm flion! Do the Europeans worship Heaven
with more marks of profound refpeX ! Do they
confer those honours on the Supreme Being which
they pay to a barbarous king who gives them per
million to purchase trinkets and porcelaine ! What
a glorious exchange, to forfeit their national hon
our, and even their title to humanity, for a fereen
Or a fiiuffbox! “ . ’ •
‘■ If the ceremonies at the firft'audience appear
ed mortifying, tbofe which are praXifed in the
the Indies of the court were placed
behind lattices, in filch a manner as to fee without
being seen. Here all the Europeans were direXed
to pass in review, and to grovel and to a£ the
lei peat a* before. With thisTpeXacle the whole
court Teemed highly delighted. The ftranger*
were alked many questions, molt ofthem ftrangelv
ridiculous, with their names, their ages, &c. TTev
were ordered to write, to Hand up, to fit, to com
pliment each, to be drunk, to speak the Japanese
language, to talk Dutch, to sing, to eat: infhort
they were ordered to do all thaf could fttisfv the
cui lofity of women. 1
“ Rc on a set of grave men thus transform
ed into buffoons! Yet the ceremony did not end
Here ; for every great lord of the court was to be
vi iced in the fame manner; and their ladies were
ali equally pleased ‘ with feeing the strangers per
orm, even the children Teeming highly diverted
witn the dancing Dutchmen.
c S ( ? r ! ed 1 On returning from
r UC K k / p k eL ] acle ) ** ,s thc natl °.n which aflumes
such high dignity m India, and other countries in
Asia; that behaves fb proudly at home, and in e
very country where they have power to (hew au
thority ? How does the inordinate love of pain
transform the gravest of mankind into the moft
contemptible and ridiculous mortals! Who would
acquire riches at fuA a price? Perish the wealth
accumulated wuh of honour and humanity’
Let roe leave a country where there are none but
fucb as treat all others like slaves, and in their turn
fufier such treatment. In my travels shall I not find
nations of more nufflanity’ than the Japanese or
Dutchmen ? The people here are suspicious to ex.
cefs ; their moraU are C orrupted, and they are e
■ quil > i by fupcrftition and vice; and conse
quently 4he moft ufefifl fcicnces are negleXed
where the great arfjlaves to the prince and tvl
rants to the people inhere the women are chafle
only when debarred of the power of transgression •
wnere the true disciples of Confucius left
perfected than those of Chriflianity : in a word a
country where men are forbidden to think, a‘nd
consequently labour under the moft miserable flave
*ry # that of mental servitude.”
Ajhort SERMON on MO RTA L ITT.
T,x T -Job V 7 .. Man U bom unto trouble,
as the lparks fly upward.”
I? H^ L d iY id e the difeourfe into, and confides
it (Uhder, the three following heads^:
Man’s Ingress into the world.
Secondly, Progress through the world.
Third and lallly, His Egress out of the world;
And ftrll, Man’s Ingress into the world—] s nakedF
and bare ;
Secondly, His Progress thrO’ the worlds,* trouble
and care; *
Third and lastly, Hi? Egress out of die world—is
r no body knows where.
-To conclude: • . 1 . ~
V ‘'• cio well h?re, we (ball be well there:
I can tell ye no more, if l f : Uc i a whoi,
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