Hill. The Rocks fly back from his Heels; loud crashing they bound to the Plain. His Armour, his Buckler rung. He hummed a furly Song like the Noife of the falling Stream. Dark as Dark as a Cloud he ftood above; his Arms, like Meteors, fhone. From the Summit of the Hill, he rolled a Rock. Ullin heard in the Hall of Carbre.- Advertisement. AN ACCOUNT OF RUSSIA AS IT WAS IN THE YEAR 1710. BY CHARLES LORD WHITWORTH. First Printed in the Year 1758. T Advertisement. THE following fhort but curious Account of the Ruffian Empire, as it began to emerge from Barbarifm in the Year 1710, cannot but be acceptable to the Public from the Curiosity of the Subject, and from the Merit of the Performance. Lord Molefworth's Account of the Revolution in Denmark, which totally overturned the Conftitution. of that Country, is one of our Standard Books. Lord Whitworth's little Treatife will throw confiderable Lights upon the Formation of the Mufcovite Power, and upon the Plans of that extraordinary Genius, Peter the Great. Each Author fhews what lafting Benefits Embaffadors and foreign Minifters might confer on Mankind, beyond the temporary Utility of negociating and sending Intelligence. Our Author Charles Lord Whitworth, was Son of Richard Whitworth, Efq; of Blowerpipe in Staffordfire, who, about the Time of the Rovolution, had fettled at Adbaston. He married Anne Moseley, Niece of Sir Ofwald Moseley, of Cheshire, by whom he had; fix Sons and a Daughter. Charles; Richard, Lieu-, tenant-colonel of the Queen's own royal Regiment. of Horfe; Edward, Captain of a Man of War Gerard, Gerard, one of the Chaplains to King George the Firft; John, Captain of Dragoons; Francis, Surveyor-general of his Majefty's Woods, and Secretary of the Island of Barbadoes, Father of Charles Whitworth, Efq; Member in the prefent Parlia ment for Mine-bead, in Somerfetfire: and Anne, married to Tracey Pauncefort, Efq. of Lincolnshire. Charles, the eldest Son, was bred under that aca complished Minifter and Poet, Mr. Stepney, and having attended him through feveral Courts of Germany, was, in the Year 1702, appointed Refident at the Diet of Ratisbon. In 1704, He was named Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Petersburgh, as he was fent Embaffador Extraordinary thither on a more folemn and important Occafion in 1710. M. de Matueof, the Czar's Minister at London, had been arrested in the public Street by two Bailiffs, at the Suit of fome Tradesmen to whom he was in Debt. This Affront had like to have been attended with very ferious Confequences. The Czar, who had been abfolute enough to civilize Savages, had no Idea, could conceive none, of the Privileges of a Nation civilized in the only rational Manner, by Laws and Liberties. He demanded immediate and fevere Punishment of the Offenders: He demanded it of a Princess, whom he thought interested to affert the Sacredness of the Perfons of Monarchs, even in their Representatives; and he demanded it with Threats of wrecking his Vengeance on all English Merchants and Subjects established in his Dominions. In this Light the Menace was formidable--otherwise, happily |