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The assassins are now much scattered. Horn is in 

 Iceland, Eibbing is said to be in Paris, and Lilienhorn 

 is a schoolmaster in an obscure town in Poland. It 

 is thought to have been very lucky for the peace of 

 the country that the king lived some weeks after his 

 brother, as, had he died without making the proper 

 arrangements, there is little doubt that the discon- 

 tented party would have taken the opportunity of 

 attempting a revolution. The power of Kussia, of 

 course, keeps them in awe. The antipathy of the 

 people is very violent; in playing at cards (for in- 

 stance) they call in joke your adversary "the 

 Russian." This antipathy swallows up any pique 

 against the Danes, with whom they would willingly 

 join against Russia. The Court, however, must bend 

 to their power. Accordingly the late proclamation 

 was written to please it. This absurd piece was 

 written with the king's own hand. 



The present politics of Sweden are very singular : 

 ^ fear of dependence seems the great spring of all 

 the Court's motions; yet the favour shown to the 

 Eussian ambassador, who is treated on every occasion 

 with peculiar distinction, seems inconsistent with this 

 principle. He alone is allowed to sit at table with 

 the royal family; and at the opera-house he was 

 placed in a place quite separate from the other 

 ministers. It must, however, be observed, that he is 

 the only full ambassador now in Stockholm. The 

 king was to have been married to one of our prin- 

 cesses (Mary), but the match was broken off, for fear 



