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 AN ACCOUNT

OF THE

BETWEEN

RUSSIA, SWEDEN & DENMARK,

AND

Character and anecdotes of the Emperor Paul I. of Ruſſia.

N order to explain the reaſons that could actuate the Northern Powers to league at this juncture againſt Great Britain, and ſet aside and violate Treaties ſolemnly ratified; or  we ſtate what the right of ſearching Neutral Veſſels is grounded on; how neceſſary it is for every, but particularly Britain to adhere to it, and what engagements really were broken by theſe powers,  will he neceſſary to give a ſketch of the hiſtory of  Emperor Paul I. of Ruſſia.

One of the greateſt crimes charged againſt was her conduct to Paul, in whoſe right ſhe  Ruſſia thirty-five years. In his infancy, he poſſeſſed of ſenſe, activity, a diſpoſition for the, and ſentiments of order and justice; but all  periſhed for want of cultivation.—She could not  him, kept him at a diſtance, ſurrounded him with , held him in reſtraint, expoſed him to every kind  humiliation ; and while her favourites, inferior to  ſon in years, governed Ruſſia, and wallowed in , he was living retired, inſignificant, and in  of neceſſaries. Thus ſhe ſoured his temper, and him capricious and miſtruſtful, ſavage and. Not ſatiſfied with depriving him of the