(From the Original, in the Custody of a Gentleman of Staples-Inn.] For his Excelency the Lord General Crumwell, at his House at the Cockpitt this humbly Present. London. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXELENCY, BEINGE constrained in spiritt from the Lord; to present theese few lines to your comfort, and incoregment, in this great and wonderfull trancaction, which the Lord hath caried you and the rest of his servants one to perform, beyond both your purposes and intensions but for your better asurance, this worke was imediately from the Lord and according to his will, partly reueled to the meanest of his poore unworthy servants, in a most miracolowse and wonderfull maner, and it was the thinge for the mator, which I was prest one to pray for beinge caried one with an exterordinary faith to beleeve it was sudenly to be done, and spake to some of my friends which served the Lord, sayinge you shall see a sudden chainge, and to that purpose rott to colonell Jams his sonse in London about a weeke before this was done which is there extant, thus much for your better confermation. Not in the leaste attributinge any knowledg or Vnderstanding to myselfe, desiringe to be looked upon but as the poorest sinfull reach, whom the Lord hath shewed mercy one, from his infinite free grace and unspeacable loue, O that it weare in the harts of men to beleeve what great loue the Lord Jesus hath to his people, and what he is now doing for them, it would make them forsake all and follow the lame whether ever he goeth, therefore I humbly beseech your Exelency to begg of the Lord direxion and assistance in this weightey mattor, for he is com doune from heaven to visitt his peopell with infinitt love, and holds out his mercy, O for the Lords sake aske now for the windows of heaven are open, he will deney you nothinge that is for his honour and glory and your comfort, he that hath given you a white roobe will not denie you a palme branch, he that hath given you strength and wisdom to overcome, will give you to eat of that hidden manna, which will teach men to deny that spirit of Antichrist (sealfe) which hath destroyed princes, parliaments, and nations, and now the peopull of God, will find him their greatest enemy, but they may esey destroye him by prayer, the Lord will not now beare with men as he hath done, the trialls shall be great, deuidinge as it weare betweene the marrow and the bones, wicked mens harts shall faile them, one glimse of the love of Christ will be worth ten thousand worlds, for the Lord is now beginninge to shake the earth, and also the heavens that his peopull may com purifide like gowld out of the fier, and you his choice wone like puer fine gould which hath bine seven times purified. If any great mountaine stand in your wayes, and hinder the worke to go one, give notis to the peopull of God, for believe it from the Lord, they have power to remove it by praier, the Lord of Hosts which lead the the children of Isarell throw the wildernes goes before you to bringe you in to the spiritual Canan, and now you are com to the bancke of the river Jordan, O ouer dear Joshua goe one valiantly, the river shall be dried up and we shall passe throw, but all those which seek themselves are takinge up thaier reast and habitasion one this side, and will not healpe thaier breathren against thaier enemies, but had rather healpe their enemies against thair breathren, but it is much to be feared thaye will never see the spiritual Canan, and perish in the wilderness. I crave pardon for my bouldness and presumsion, the intention of this is not to inform you, as though you had not a clearer light of the worke of the Lord, in your hands, for I know the Lord hath rought mightylie, both in you and for you, ever blessed be his name, but crave your acceptance of this my vnsiuell tediousness, ffrom a humble and sincere hart. Now the Lord God of heaven and earth guide, direct, protect you and all his peopull to advance Christ Jesus upon his glorious throne, which shall ever be the praiers of him who is your most humbull and obedient servant in the Lord, Wigmore Grainge, in the county of Heriford, this 2d day MORGAN WATKINS. CORONATION AT MOSCOW. Moscow, Sep. 20, O. S.-Oct. 2, N. S. ON Sunday last was performed the ceremony of the Coronation, &c. of the Emperor Alexander I. which drew to this city an addition of forty thousand Russian families, and an immense number of spectators from every other country in Europe. Early in the morning a discharge of twenty-one pieces of cannon gave a signal to the troops to occupy their respective posts, and to the persons who were to figure in the procession, to repair to the places assigned to them. About nine o'clock the march began in the following order from the Palace in the Kremlin (the citadel), to the Cathedral of the Assumption: J. An Officer of the Knight's Body-guard, at the head of a detachment of that corps, drew up along the way as far as the door of the church. 2. Twenty-six Ordinary, and as many Chamber Pages advanced into the church. 3. Two Masters of Ceremonies proceeded to point out to each person the place and part he should take in the procession; which having done, they took their stand round the Imperialia, which were carried upon cushions into the church by persons of high distinction.-The Imperialia consisted ofThe Chain of the Order of St. Andrew. The Banner of the Empire. The Scal of the Empire. The Sword of State. The Mantle of Her Imperial Majesty. The Mantle of His Imperial Majesty. The Staff of Command. The Small Imperial Crown, The large Imperial Crown. VOL. 2.-NO. 10. The Imperialia were escorted by two Officers of the Knight's Body-guard and twenty-four Knights armed with carbines. 4. The Deputies of the Russian Merchants from all the Governments of Russia. 5. The Deputies of the Foreign Merchants.-Mr. Hawes represented the English. 6. The Magistrates of Moscow. 7. The Members of the University. 8. The Superintendants of the different Departments of the Government of Moscow. 9. The Dignities of the Nobility of all the Governments of the Empire. 10. The Senate. 11. The Members of his Imperial Majesty's Council. 12. Two Upper Masters of Ceremonies with their Staffs. 13. The Grand Master of Ceremonies with his Staff. 14. 15. Heralds in their appropriate Costume. A detachment of the Knights Body-Guard. 16. Two Marshals of the Court with their Staffs. 17. An Upper Marshal of the Court with ditto. 18. The Grand Marshal. 19. His Imperial Majesty, attended by two Adjutants-General and the Colonel of the Knight's Body Guard--- drawn swords in their hands. 20. Her Imperial Majesty, accompanied in the like manner. The canopy under which Their Majesties were placed was supported by sixteen Majors and sixteen Lieutenants General. 21. The Bishop of the Robes, Maids of Honour, &c. 22. 23. 24. A detachment of the Knight's Body Guard. A Body of Noblemen of the most Illustrious families of the Empire, The Manufacturers of Moscow--the chief Merchants of ditto. 25: A detachment of the Knight's Body Guard, which closed the Pro cession. A ringing of all the bells in the different churches announced the beginning of, and continued during, the procession. His imperial majesty was received at the door of the church by the metropolitan of Moscow, bearing in his hand a cross, and by the archdeacon, carrying the holy water. As soon as their imperial majesties entered the church, they placed themselves before the altar, prostrated themselves before, and kissed the sacred images that were placed around. They next ascended a throne, which was raised in the middle of the church, under a canopy, and seated themselves upon it. The archbishops, bishops, and other dignitaries of the church, then placed themselves in two lines along the steps of the throne towards the altar. The choir then sung a verse of the psalmTe Domine Cantamus, &c. &c. The noblemen of distinction who carried the Imperialia, then mounted the steps of the throne, and placed the Imperialia upon a table prepared for that purpose. Having arranged them in due order, they took their places upon the steps of the throne, each according to his rank and office. CORONATION. The ceremony of the coronation was then begun and performed in the following manner: The Archbishop of Moscow (the celebrated Plato), who officiated on the occasion, after having gone through the previous part His of divine service, proceeded to read, and read the gospel. imperial majesty ordered the imperial mantle to be taken from the table on which it had been placed, and to be put upon his shoulders. This was done by the archbishop, who accompanied the act with the usual prayer. The prayer being finished, his majesty called for the imperial crown. This one of the bearers of the imperialia carried to the archbishop, and he presented it upon a cushion to his majesty. His majesty took the crown and placed it upon his head. This act the archbishop also accompanied with a prayer. His majesty next called for the sceptre and the staff of command, which were likewise presented to him by the archbishop, and he then seated himself upon the imperial throne, holding the sceptre in his right, and the staff of command in his left hand. His majesty next replaced these imperialia upon the cushions on which they had been presented to him, and made a sign to her imperial majesty to draw near to him. He then took off his crown, inclined it towards, and suspended it over her majesty's head, and again replaced it on his own. The small imperial crown was then brought to his majesty, which he placed upon the head of the empress, while four of the ladies of the bedchamber advanced and adjusted it on her hair. The imperial mantle and the chain of the order of St. Andrew were next brought to his majesty, with which he invested the empress, and the same ladies of the bedchamber advanced and fitted them on. The archdeacon then recited all the titles of his imperial majesty and concluded by exclaiming annorum seriem-grant him a length of years!-Now all the bells began to ring, and on a signal given from the cupola of the church, 101 pieces of cannon, which lined the walls of the kremlin were fired off. The different regiments drawn up in the adjoining squares and streets also fired a first volley. While the choir were singing the words annorum seriem, all the dignitaries of the church and the nobility of both sexes stood up, and bowed three times in congratulation to his majesty. When the singing in the choir, the ringing of the bells, and the roaring of the cannon had ceased, his imperial majesty rose up from the throne, returned the sceptre and the staff of command to the persons whose office it was to carry them, and then knelt down. In this posture he read from a book the prayer prescribed for the occasion; and when he concluded it, the archbishop and the whole of the assembly threw themselves also upon their knees, and repeated a prayer, while his imperial majesty alone stood up. At the conclusion of this prayer, the archbishop rose and delivered a discourse adapted to the nature of the ceremony, and as he concluded, the whole choir began to sing the psalm, nomen tuum, domine, celebramus. The bells were again rung, and the divine service commenced. On the reading of the gospel their majesties took off and laid down their crowns; and the gospel being after ss 2 wards wards presented to them, they bowed down and kissed it with found reverence. pro As the service advanced towards the consecration of the sacrament, and as, at the words "take and eat," the choir began to sing, the canons, the vice-governor of Moscow, attended by two colonels, proceeded to stretch a carpetting of crimsom velvet, fringed with. gold, down from the throne to the doors of the sanctuary. Immediately before the doors of the sanctuary the velvet was covered over with gold tissue. Over this carpetting their majesties walked down to receive the holy unction and the sacrament. As soon as the singing of the canons had ceased, and the bishops, &c. had taken the communion at the altar, the doors of the sanctuary were thrown open, and two bishops, followed by two archdeacons, came forth and informed his majesty that the hour of consecration was come. Upon this his majesty proceeded straight to the doors of the shrine. He was followed by her majesty. Before them walked the different masters of the ceremonies, the marshals of the court, the grand marshal, &c. in the same order as in the procession. As his majesty approached the steps of the altar, he knelt down upon the golden tissue, which had been spread there for the purpose. Her majesty stopped before she reached the doors of the sanctuary. His majesty then returned his imperial insignia, viz. the crown, the sceptre, and the staff of command, to the bearers, until he had gone through the ceremony of the consecration, and taken the sacrament. The archbishop now proceeded to perform the ceremony: he dipped a small branch (ramulus) of gold into the holy oil, which was contained in a golden vase, and applied it to the forehead, to the eyes, the nostrils, the mouth, the beard, and the fingers of each hand of his majesty, while he pronounced these words:-Sigillum doni spiritus sancti. The eldest of the assisting bishops then wiped off the oil with white cotton. As soon as his majesty had received the sacred unction all the bells were again rung, a similar number of cannon, viz. 101, as at the coronation ceremony, were discharged, and the regiments around fired a second volley. Her imperial majesty then placed herself upon the same golden tissue, and received the sacred unction on her forehead only. The archbishop next conducted his majesty through the holy doors of the shrine into the interior of the sanctuary, where he knelt down upon a gold cloth and received the sacrament, the body and blood of Christ, from the hands of the archbishop-(The emperor alone of all the faithful is permitted to enter the sanctuary, and communicate in this solemn manner.) After the communion his majesty returned to his imperial seat, the imperialia being carried before him. The empress next advanced to the doors of the shrine (no woman is allowed to enter it), and received the sacrament in the ordinary way. His majesty then resumed the imperialia, walked up with her majesty to the throne, and remained seated on it till the divine service was concluded. Such |