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delated: and the following particulars are alone
unqueftionable, A body, fuppofed to be that of
the young prince, was found weltering in its blood;
and certain perfons, confidered as the affaffins,
were inftantly put to death by the inhabitants of
Uglitz, The account of the cataftrophe being
tranfmitted to Mofcow, Boris Godunof, after
circulating a report that Demetrius had, in a fit
of phrenzy, put a period to his own life,, dif-
patched his creatures Vaffili Shuifki and Cletch-
nin to inquire into the circumftances of his death.
Having examined the body of the deceafed, they
declared it to be that of Demetrius, and confirmed
the report. Maria Feodorofna, accufed of grofs
inattention to her fon's fecurity, was compelled
to aflume the veil, and confined" in a convent;
many inhabitants of Uglitz, who fpoke freely
concerning the murder, were capitally puniflied;
fome were imprifoned, and others banifhed.
Boris Godunof managed this horrid tranfao
tion with fucli art and fecrecy, that fcarcely any
fufpicions were entertained againfthim, until thir-
teen years afterwards a perfon made his appear-
ance under the name of Demetriug : he declared
that his mother, fufpicious of the attempts againft
her fon's life, had removed him from Uglitz, and
fiibftittited another child4 who was affaffmated
in his place; and that, being educated in a con-
vent, and concealed from the knowledge of his
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