in which four or five lives were lost.  They are now quieter, and this is the only instance of a life lost, as yet, in this revolution.  The public mind is now so far ripened by time and discussion, that there seems to be but one opinion on the principal points.  The question of voting by persons or orders is the most controverted; but even that seems to have gained already a majority among the Nobles.  I fear more from the number of the Assembly, than from any other cause.  Twelve hundred persons 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 support, by Russia on the north, and Denmark on the south.  He can have no salvation but in the King of Prussia.