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Rh benefit of the Empress. Miendzyboz was the head-quarters of the Russian armies cantoned, under the command of Soltikoff, in the provinces lately seized from Poland. We stopped there for a day, and were lodged in a convent. Soltikoff, under pretence of indisposition, did not come to see us himself, but sent his aide-de-camp, with compliments of condolence, who told us, by his general's orders, that we should keep our minds at rest, that the clemency of his sovereign was boundless, and that we had nothing to fear. Whilst sending us these assurances by his aide-de-camp, he was giving at the