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BNL.773.022
25 Mar 1773:12 (3625 Supplement)
Extract of a letter which Prince Gallitzin, Minister from
the Empress of Russia at the Hague, received there the 28th
of December from Petersburgh, dated the 8th of the same
month.
On Sunday last Te Deum was sung in the presence of the
Empress and the whole court, as a solemn thanksgiving for
the cessation of the contagious distemper in this empire.
The great precautions which the government took upon this
occasion, together with the severe frost last winter,
contributed not a little to stop this calamity; and now we
are quite free from it, order are given to talke off all
quantities that were established between the two capitals,
and to leave only those between Kiow and Moscow, on account
of the great numbers of people which are continually passing
into the provinces conquered from the ports. Considering the
rapid progress which the distemper made throughout this
extensive empire, we ought to bless God that no more than
63,000 died of it, according to the accounts sent from the
different provinces to the senate.
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