1791- LITERARY INTELUGBXCER. ' ^ ^7 



tent himfelf with a limited and dependent fway, muft de- 

 pend upon contingencies that perhaps no one can as yet per- 

 feftly forelee. 



In the mean time, the court of Peterihurgh gives all the 

 efFecl it can to promote his military operations ; and though 

 their fuccefs a:5ai!-ift tlie Turks during the lart campaign has 

 not been fuch as to give them that decided advantage over 

 the Forjj they have aimed at, yet .the Ruirian arms have 

 been upon the whole fuccefsi'ul, and tlie Turks have fuffei- 

 td lome confiderable lolTes. 



Swede/!. 



To the northward, Ruflia has had the good fortune, laftfea- 

 fon, to difembarrafsiierfelf from a very troublcfome oppcuent, 

 ■which would otherwife have proved exceedinglv diftrelTing to 

 her. The king of Sweden having fjiracd a It rid; alliance 

 with the Porte, made a fudden and powerful di%'erfion in 

 their favours into Ruffian Finland, and on the Baltic ; 

 but having been obliged to aft with greater promptitude 

 than the Hate of liis kingdom could properly admit of, his- 

 luhjeds at firll were fubjefted to gieat inconveniences by 

 it, which excited private difcontents that guve him great 

 annoyance ; and being attacked at the iame time by Den- 

 mark, his alfalrs were for feme time in as ticklilh a fUua- 

 tioa as can eafily be conceived. And had it not been foi- 

 the critical intervention of Great Eritain and Pruflia. he 



1 great reafon to fear that he would have been driveft 



r.n his throne, 'i'liis difficulty furmounted, the SwediiK 

 ii\oiiarcii, with an-aciive alacrity that is rarely to be found, 

 procured Aipplies ; recruited his forces by fea and land ; 

 and having quieted by his addrefs the internal didurbancei 

 that threatened to break out, he began the campaign with 

 that active intrepidity which has dilHnguiihed all his civil 

 and military operations, iiut having by an unlucky arci- 

 dent fultained a great lofs at fea in an engagement with the 

 Kuflian ileet on the loth of July lail, he, by a molf extraor- 

 dinary exertion, on a faccetding day, recovered the laure)s 

 that fortune had torn fiomjiis brow. But being by this 

 lime fatijiied of the futility of his attempts at conqnert, and 

 i>olh he and his opponent heartily tired of the war, a peac-c 

 'vas fuddenly concluded between RuiUa and Sweden, with-. 



1 tVic i.itervcntion of any other power, and without men- 



