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caserns to receive the oaths and hoiments

This palace-revolution was consu people of St Petersburg found theency and new masters!

But a population of slaves venture no opposition Whoever may have the

power to declare and maintain himself their ruler, he is their master,

and the slavish horde bow hureat nates of the reale and prostrate

themselves in the dust before hient, humbly to pay their court to her The same lips that

even yesterday swore eternal fidelity to the Regent Biron, and sounded

his praise to the skies, now condeust new mistress, Anna Leopoldowna! The same knees which had

yesterday bent to Biron, now bent before Anna; and, with tears of joy,

ratulating

their noble Russia upon which the sun of happiness had now risen, given

her Anna Leopoldowna as regent!

And while all was jubilation in the palace of the new regent, that of

the great man of yesterday stood silent and deserted--no one dared to

raise a voice in his favor! Those who yesterday revelled at his table

and sang his praises were to-day his bitterest ene him the

louder the more they had lauded him yesterday