XXXIII. An account of an earthquake in Siberia: In a letter from Mons. Weymarn to Dr. Mounsey, Principal Physician of the Emperor of Russia, F. R. S. Translated from the French. Communicated by Mr. Henry Baker, F. R. S

I cannot express the excess of joy and compleat satisfaction, with which I heard, by our friend Dr. Erasmus, and the Reverend Mr. Minau, and soon after by the Petersbourgh Gazette, the pleasing and long expected news, that his Imperial Majesty, our most gracious Sovereign and Master, has been pleased to confer on your Excellency the Office of Archiater, and Supreme Head of the Medical Faculty, throughout the whole Empire, with the rank and dignity of a Privy Counsellor.