Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Weights and measures
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction
- I Antecedents
- 2 Catherine II and the Manifestos of 1762 and 1763
- 3 The response: settlement 1763–1775
- 4 Southern Russia 1764—1796
- 5 Urban and entrepreneurial settlement under the 1763 Manifesto
- 6 Immigration and colonies 1797–1804
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- I The official English-language version of the Manifesto of 1763
- II An Announcement Concerning the Benefits and Advantages of the Colony Katharinenlehn, which is being established on the patterns of the Swiss cantons
- III A contemporary British comment on the emigration to Russia
- IV Observations Sur La Levée des Colonies Russes & L'Emigration des Families Françoises
- V Der zu Strelina mit denen Collonisten, so nach der Ukraine sich zu Etabeliren willig gemacht geschlossener Contract
- VI Rules concerning the reception in future of colonists
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
III - A contemporary British comment on the emigration to Russia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Weights and measures
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction
- I Antecedents
- 2 Catherine II and the Manifestos of 1762 and 1763
- 3 The response: settlement 1763–1775
- 4 Southern Russia 1764—1796
- 5 Urban and entrepreneurial settlement under the 1763 Manifesto
- 6 Immigration and colonies 1797–1804
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- I The official English-language version of the Manifesto of 1763
- II An Announcement Concerning the Benefits and Advantages of the Colony Katharinenlehn, which is being established on the patterns of the Swiss cantons
- III A contemporary British comment on the emigration to Russia
- IV Observations Sur La Levée des Colonies Russes & L'Emigration des Families Françoises
- V Der zu Strelina mit denen Collonisten, so nach der Ukraine sich zu Etabeliren willig gemacht geschlossener Contract
- VI Rules concerning the reception in future of colonists
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Lloyds Evening Post and British Chronicle, vol. XIV no. 1040, 9–12 March N.S. 1764, p. 243: ‘Account of the Weekly Papers’.
To the North Briton, March 10th
Sir,
In No. 75 of your Paper, you mentioned that 248 Persons, of various occupations, had engaged with the Russian Ambassador to form a settlement in his Mistress's dominions, having previously met with a denial in their application for encouragement to do so in Florida. In the public Papers of this week I find the States of Holland have issued an arret, strictly forbidding, under the severest penalties, any of their subjects to accept the invitations given by the Ambassadors of that Power, at the several Courts where they reside, to foreigners to settle on some waste Lands of Russia, at the sole expence of the Empress. The Dutch, Sir, are a wise nation, and know the value of people too well to part with them. We have not only lost the service of these 248 persons, but that of their posterity. In a generation or two, thousands who might have been English subjects, will all be Russians. Every subject, on an average, consumes, I have been told, to the value of five pounds per annum in food and apparel; for the supply of which divers persons are employed.
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- Human CapitalThe Settlement of Foreigners in Russia 1762–1804, pp. 248 - 249Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1979