ns are
difficult to keep to order, and will be so, especially, till they shall
have had time to frame rules of order. Their funds continue stationary,
and at the level they have stood at for some years past. We hear
so little of the parliaments for some time past, that one is hardly
sensible of their existence. This unimportance is probably the
forerunner of their total re-modification by the nation. The article
of legislation is the only interesting one on which the court has not
explicitly declared itself to the nation. The Duke d'Orleans has given
instructions to his proxies in the _bailliages_, which would be deemed
bold in England, and are reasonable beyond the reach of an Englishman,
who, slumbering under a kind of half reformation in politics and
religion, is not excited by any thing he sees or feels, to question the
remains of prejudice. The writers of this country, now taking the field
freely, and unrestrained, or rather revolted by prejudice, will rouse us
all from the errors in which we have been hitherto rocked.

We had, at one time, some hope, that an accommodation would have been
effected between the Turks and two empires. Probably the taking Oczakow,
while it has attached the Empress more to the Crimea, is not important
enough to the Turks, to make them consent to peace. These hopes are
vanishing. Nor does there seem any prospect of peace between Russia
and Sweden. The palsied condition of England leaves it probable, that
Denmark will pursue its hostilities against Sweden. It does not
seem certain whether the King of Prussia has advanced so far in that
mediation, and in the troubles he has excited in Poland, as to be
obliged to become a party. Nor will his becoming a party draw in this
country, the present year, if England remains quiet. Papers which have
lately passed between this court and the government of Holland, prove
that this nourishes its discontent, and only waits to put its house in
order, before it interposes. They have recalled their ambassador from
the Hague, without naming a successor. The King of Sweden, not thinking
that Russia and Denmark are enough for him, has arrested a number of his
Nobles, of principal rank and influence. It is a bold measure, at least,
and he is too boyish a character to authorize us to presume it a wise
one, merely because he has adopted it. His army was before disgusted. He
now puts the Nobles and all their dependants on the same side, and they
are sure of armed