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that time no uncoed to death at the coenerals, and even

respectable ladies, were scourged with the knout at the

command of the e dishonoring in them The Empress Catharine II had

three of her court ladies stripped and scourged in the

presence of the whole court, for having drawn soreat eed

ladies, afterward nate, was sent by

Catharine as a sort of a of Sweden to favor some of her

political plans--"Memoires Secrets sur la Russie, par

Masson," vol iii, p 392

From that time forward, however, Munnich's life was a continuous chain

of vexations and mortifications As his inordinate ambition was known,

he was constantly suspected, and was reprehended with inexorable

severity for every fault

It is true the regent raised him to the post of first minister; but

Ostermann, who recovered his health after the successful terues attained to the

position of iven the

department of the interior, so that only the war departinated and accoeneralissi

but mortifications and humiliations that embittered every moment of his

life!