Note 4 — On the Hospitals at Pancras.

While the Empress was under Inoculation at Sarsco-celo, some of the poor of the adjoining village were also, on the encouragement she had given, inoculated.

I remember the Empress said to me, with that vivacity and liberality of sentiment for which she is remarkably distinguished, “If I was to order the poor of this neighbourhood to be inoculated, it would be complied with, and be beneficial to them; but I love to use persuasive means, rather than authority; on this account I have advanced a rouble (about four shillings) to each that would consent, and several have accepted it and recovered; but I find they now talk of raising the price to two roubles, which I must consent to as a further encouragement, for I wish the practice may be advanced by the mildest methods.”