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It does not appear all this while that the Empress has ever been
on board my Brother's Barge, nor even her own; but it is not
to be concluded that she will not as her stay at Cherson is to
be but short, and She is to return to Kremenchuck.
The Men on board the Barge have had a rare time of it.
The Prince soon after He came on board ordered them 300
Rubles, and 50 more before he disembarked. The Emperor
also, and many other People made them Presents.
As the Hands that rowed the Vessel were thus treated, it seems
not an unnatural Conclusion that the Head which planned
it will at the long run, not go altogether unrewarded.
The Letter speaks much of the Caresses bestowed on him
by all the great Folks there, amongst his Visitors it mentions
by name, Field Marshal Romanzoff (the Conquerer of the
Turks you know) and Count Chernocheff, who you also
know is at the head of the Admiralty.
My Brother, I am sorry to find has been labouring under
a very indifferent State of health. The Surgeon speaks of
him as being on the mending order, but not yet well,
however that he cannot be very ill appears by his exposing
himself to the fatigue of a Land Journey of some hundred
Versts in attending the Empress to Cherson.
That it should be his Wish She should not see his Barge
till her return from thence I can easily conceive: by what
I saw of it; It could not well have been finished in the
Inside at the time May 9/20. She left Kremenchuck on her
way to Cherson.
But I cannot so well account for her not having been in
all this time so much as on board of her own Barge.
The Prince is particularly pleased, it seems, with the 24 Oar'd
Barge
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