in the northwestern parts of Europe would be, quieted.  All of a sudden, a new flame bursts out in Poland.  The King and his party are devoted to Russia.  The opposition rely on the protection of Prussia.  They have lately become the majority in the confederated diet, and have passed a vote for subjecting their army to a commission independent of the King, and propose a perpetual diet, in which case he will be a perpetual cipher.  Russia declares against such a change in their constitution, and Prussia has put an army into readiness, for marching, at a moment’s warning, on the frontier of Poland.  These events are too recent, to see, as yet, what turn they will take, or what effect they will have on the peace of Europe.  So is that also, of the lunacy of the King of England, which is a decided fact, notwithstanding all the stuff the English papers publish, about his fevers, his deliriums, &c.  The truth is, that the lunacy declared itself almost at once, and with as few concomitant complaints, as usually attend the first developement of that disorder.  I suppose a regency will be established, and if it consists of a plurality of members, it will, probably, be peaceable.  In this event, it will much favor the present wishes of this country, which are so decidedly for peace, that they refused to enter into the mediation between Sweden and Russia, lest it should commit them.  As soon as the convocation of the States General was announced, a tranquillity took place through the whole kingdom:  happily, no open rupture had taken place, in any part of it.  The parliament were re-instated in their functions, at the same time.  This was all they desired; and they had called for the States General, only through fear that the crown could not otherwise be forced to re-instate them.  Their end obtained, they began to foresee danger to themselves, in the States General.  They began to lay the foundation for caviling at the legality of that body, if its measures should be hostile to them.  The court, to clear itself of the dispute, convened the Notables, who had acted with general approbation on the former occasion, and referred to them the forms of calling and organizing the States General.  These Notables consist principally of Nobility and Clergy; the few of the Tiers Etat among them, being either parliament men, or other privileged persons.  The court wished, that, in the future States General, the members of the Tiers Etat should equal those of both the other orders, and that they should form but one House, all together, and vote by persons, not by orders.  But the Notables, in the true spirit of Priests and Nobles, combining together against the people, have voted, by five bureaux out of six, that the people, or Tiers Etat, shall have no greater number of deputies, than each of the other orders separately, and that they shall vote by orders:  so that two orders concurring in a vote, the third will be overruled; for it is