The Times relates a pretty story of a narrow escape
of the Czar. When the fleet recently lay off Cronatadt, an English yacht, belonging to Lord Euston and Lord Lichfield, ventured too near the guns of the fortress, and a Russian steamer put out to cut her off from the fleet. An English war- steamer, the Dragon, saw the transaction, and steaming up covered the re- treat of the yacht. It only remained to settle accounts with the Russian; but she scuttled back as fast as she could, and the Dragon obeyed orders ill not heedlessly rushing under the guns. On board that Russian steamer were —the Czar Nicholas, his son the Archduke Constantine with his wife the Archduchess, and the Russian Admiral. Had the Commander of the Dragon known that! Captain Wilcox might have dared the guns of Cronstadt, for the glorious risk of carrying to England the Czar of All the Russian as a prisoner.
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