The New Hampshire Gazette

Cologne, August 3. All political conversations turns wholly on the important revolution that has just happened at Petersburg. Advices of good credit assure us, that the principal motives for deposing the Emperor, were the disregard he shewed to the Empress, for whom he openly discovered an aversion, and the Assiduities he had long paid to a Sultana. The change he attempted to make in the Greek religion, likewise contributed not a little to this sudden revolution. He wanted the Images and pictures to be taken out of the churches, the Greek Priests to be dressed like the Lutherans. The Archbishop of Novogorod, whom he sent for told him what would be the consequence if he persisted in his resolution. The Czar made answer that he would be obeyed, and that he also intended to open Lutheran churches in Russia. The Archbishop, whom he banished for eight days, immediately acquainted his brethren ; and the whole body of the clergy was soon informed of what was in agitation. The Clergy alarmed the people for their religion ; and the alarm was the sooner taken, as the Emperor had actually sent for two able Lutheran Clergymen to dispute with and baffle the Greek Priests. Add to all this, the Czar's imprudence in throwing out a hint that he intended to confine the Empress before he set out for the army, with which she was soon acquainted. Nevertheless, this Princess resolved to have personal conviction of the designs that were forming against her: For this end she took an opportunity to say to the Emperor, that she hoped that in case he should leave Petersburgh, he would place so much confidence in her, as to appoint her Regent in his absence. The manner in which he answered her, convinced her at once that what she had been told was not without foundation. She immediately took her resolution to hasten the execution of that design which was effected on the 9th past. After the Emperor was arrested, the mob, worked up by the priests, called out to have the Emperor delivered to them dead or alive, and the crown placed on the head of the Empress. As soon as her Majesty was proclaimed she dispatched couriers to all the Courts of Europe, beginning with Vienna, then Warsaw, Versailles, and Denmark. All this seems very plausible, and is partly true ; but let us recollect that the Dead cannot speak for themselves, and the Living dare not speak for them.

Petersburg, July 23.

The late Emperor's corps after having been exposed to public view for some days at the Monastery of Newsky, was buried there, without any funeral pomp, on the 21st instant.