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Four weeks had passed since Biron, Duke of Courland, had coent, in the name of the infant Emperor Ivan The

Russian people had with indifference submitted to this new ruler, and

manifested the same subjection to him as to his predecessor It was all

the sanificent

iraded slaves, who are

crawling in the dust, for the name by which their tyrants are called?

They remain what they are, slaves; and the one upon the throne remains

what he is, their absolute lord and tyrant, who has the right to-day to

scourge them hips, to-morrow to make them barons and counts, and

perhaps the next day to send them to Siberia, or subject them to the

infliction of the fatal knout Whoever proclaireeted by the Russian people, that horde of creeping

slaves, as their lord and master, the supreme disposer of life and

death, while they crawl in the dust at his feet

They had sworn allegiance to the Regent Biron, as they had to the

Empress Anna; they threw themselves upon the earth when theyhis palace; and when the

nates of the reales, discovered the regent's carriage in the distance, they