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stantine Paulowitz, second son , ing similarly circumstanced* 

 ol the grand duke of Rufsia, The constitution e'tabliHied by 

 and his heirs male. 



This sudden change in the 

 political hemisphere, has been 



communicated by exprefs to 

 every court in Europe. The 

 king, it is said, deeply affected 

 in being thus disappointed of 

 carrying his beneficent views 

 into execution, lias resolved to 

 letire from the supreme ma- 

 nagement of affairs, and even 

 from the capital, where in fu- 

 ture he can experience nothing 

 but mortification. With re- 

 gard to the elector of Saxony 

 this event proves that he acted 

 like a wise and prudent prince, 

 in not ralhly accepting the 

 crown which was offered him. 



Prince Constantine Paulo- 

 witz, who has been named to 

 the Polilh succefsion, was born 

 •on the 8th of May 1779 j and 

 his appointment will, no doubt, 

 at any rate prevent the dread 

 -of a partition. The emprefs 

 after sett'ing this affair, it is 

 not impofsible, may think of 

 extending her territories more 

 southward, and even her good 

 friends and allies, Austria and 

 Prufsia, by their wavering ac- 

 tions, may one day be engaged 

 in a war of her kindling. 

 France. 



Critical as the situation of 

 France has been for many 

 months past, it is, at the pre- 

 sent jnoment, still more critical 

 than ever : nor is there ?.n in- 

 stance in the innals of past his- 

 tory of a great nation ever dc- 



the last national afserably, and 

 sworn to by every individual 

 of the nation a few months agO' 

 entirely set aside ; the king 

 superseded, and in prison, and' 

 under order for trial : all 

 the judges of the land dis- 

 placed, and a new set of 

 judges elected by the people tO" 

 take cognizance of the crime* 

 alleged to have been commit- 

 ted by many hundreds of citi- 

 zens recently cast into prison }. 

 three great armies on the fron- 

 tiers already entered, or ready 

 to enter the dominions of 

 France ; the generals who 

 command the armies that are 

 to oppose them, superseded by 

 the party at present in power, 

 and ordered into confinement 

 for trial ; one half of these 

 armies declared for the former 

 constitution, and the other 

 half for the present order of 

 things. Such, in a few words, 

 is the present situation of af- 

 fairs In France. That order 

 may soon come out of con- 

 fusion, and that peace may fol- 

 low, with a settled form of go- 

 vernment, that fhall be calcu- 

 lated to protect the lives and 

 property, and secure the libft- 

 ties of the people, ought to be- 

 the wifli of every good man ! 



Our limits prevent us from 

 giving a detailed account of 

 these transactions ; but the fol- 

 lowing particulars will mark 

 the nature of them with sufH< 

 cient distinctnefs. 



