or RASTOPCHIN, Fedor, Count, who was born in 1765 is celebrated from his having been the commander-in-chief of Moscow in 1812, when that city was burned. His connection with the conflagration has been the subject of much controversy. The point of dispute is, whether he was or was not the incendiary. In support of the former supposition there is the presumption that the flames were far too opportune in their outbreak, summary in their devastations, and successful in their results, to be the effect of anything else than one designing and overruling mind. In support of the latter there is the fact, that the governor himself, in 1823, while residing in Paris, published a pamphlet disclaiming the honour of being the author of such a pregnant event in the world's history, and attributing the fire to the patriotism of a few isolated Russians. Rostopchin died at Moscow in 1826. He left behind him, among other works, an autobiography, entitled Memoirs written in Ten Minutes.