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p.inces. If Leopold had any 

 intentions of interfering in their 

 quarrel, it must, oa the part of 

 the empire, be suspended at 

 least for a season. But as there 

 seemed to be no just grounds 

 to suspect that he intended to 

 engage, hastily, at least, in 

 this quarrel ; and as his succef- 

 sor in the empire, who vnW. 

 pr )bably be his son, the arch- 

 d k.e of Austria, may not bp so 

 mjch disposed to pacific msa- 

 sur s as his father, there appears 

 to be rather a greater chance 

 r.ow of a rupture between 

 France and Austria than for- 

 •merly. 



Poland, Riifsla, Sweden. 

 Tlie emperor's death may be 

 as critical with respect to Po- 

 land as to France. The em- 

 prefs of Rufsia was too much 

 engaged in her war with the 

 Turks, to be able to take that 

 lead in the Polifh councils, 

 ilie had done for some time be- 

 fore. The revolution in the 

 constitution of Poland Ihe has 

 never approved of. It w"as 

 promoted by Prufsia and the em- 

 peror. It is susiiected that (he 

 has privatelv countenanced the 

 disaffected noble Poles and the 

 other malcontents in their op- 

 position to the new constitution, 

 and it is not impofsible but flie 

 has privately influenced the e- 

 lector of Saxony to adopt that 

 caution in regard to this reso- I 

 lution, which has so strongly 

 marked his conduct hitherto. 

 At the very' moment the news I 



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of the death of Leopold reach- 

 ed Britain, govertimen: has 

 been oScially informed that 

 the emprefs of Rufsia is to have 

 a fleet in the Baltic this sum- 

 mer, to act in conjunction with 

 that of Sweden ; and private 

 report says, that the emprefs 

 has p^id, per advance, four 

 years of the subsidy due to the 

 king ot Sweden, in order to en- 

 able him to equip his fleet with 

 the greater expedition. It is 

 not easy to say what can be 

 the object of this sudden arma- 

 ment. 



France. 

 An armament, equally sudden, 

 we are told, is ordered to be 

 made in France. Their navy 

 Is to be put on the same footing 

 as when they armed two years 

 ago in opposition to the arma- 

 ment that was then carrying on 

 in Britain. But from the ex- 

 treme derangement of the fi- 

 nances of that country, the little 

 subordination that subsists in the 

 navy, and the consequent dis- 

 gust that all experienced offi- 

 cers belonging to it have ex- 

 prefsed to that service, it will 

 probably be a difficult matter 

 for that nation at present to fit 

 out a fleet that could act with 

 effect against any naval power. 

 Spain. 

 The internal tranquillity of 

 Spain is by no means fully e- 

 stabliffied ; and though great 

 precautions are taken to guard 

 against any news being eithei 

 carried out of this country, o." 



