parties, suspended privileged places, forbade all clubs, &c.  The mobs have ceased:  perhaps this may be partly owing to the absence of Parliament.  The Count d’Artois, sent to hold a bed of justice in the Cour des Aides, was hissed and hooted without reserve, by the populace; the carriage of Madame de (I forget the name), in the Queen’s livery, was stopped by the populace, under a belief that it was Madame de Polignac, whom they would have insulted; the Queen, going to the theatre at Versailles with Madame de Polignac, was received with a general hiss.  The King, long in the habit of drowning his cares in wine, plunges deeper and deeper.  The Queen cries, but sins on.  The Count d’Artois is detested, and Monsieur, the general favorite.  The Archbishop of Toulouse is made minister principal, a virtuous, patriotic, and able character.  The Marechal de Castries retired yesterday, notwithstanding strong solicitations to remain in office.  The Marechal de Segur retired at the same time, prompted to it by the court.  Their successors are not yet known.  Monsieur de St. Priest goes ambassador to Holland, in the room of Verac, transferred to Switzerland, and the Count de Moustier goes to America, in the room of the Chevalier de la Luzerne, who has a promise of the first vacancy.  These nominations are not yet made formally, but they are decided on, and the parties are ordered to prepare for their destination.

As it has been long since I have had a confidential conveyance to you, I have brought together the principal facts from the adjournment of the Notables, to the present moment, which, as you will perceive from their nature, required a confidential conveyance.  I have done it the rather, because, though you will have heard many of them, and seen them in the public papers, yet, floating in the mass of lies which constitute the atmosphere of London and Paris, you may not have been sure of their truth; and I have mentioned every truth of any consequence, to enable you to stamp as false, the facts pretermitted.  I think that in the course of three months, the royal authority has lost, and the rights of the nation gained, as much ground by a revolution of public opinion only, as England gained in all her civil wars under the Stuarts.  I rather believe, too, they will retain the ground gained, because it is defended by the young and the middle-aged, in opposition to the old only.  The first party increases, and the latter diminishes daily, from the course of nature.  You may suppose, that in this situation, war would be unwelcome to France.  She will surely avoid it, if not forced into it by the courts of London and Berlin.  If forced, it is probable she will change the system of Europe totally, by an alliance with the two empires, to whom nothing would be more desirable.  In the event of such a coalition, not only Prussia, but the whole European world must receive from them their laws.  But France will probably endeavor to preserve the present system, if it can be done, by sacrificing, to a certain degree, the pretensions of the patriotic party in Holland.  But of all these matters, you can judge, in your position, where less secrecy is observed, better than I can.