A firm, but quiet opposition, will be the most likely
to succeed. Whatever turn this crisis takes, a revolution in their
constitution seems inevitable, unless foreign war supervene, to suspend
the present contest. And a foreign war they will avoid, if possible,
from an inability to get money. The loan of one hundred and twenty
millions, of the present year, is filled up by such subscriptions as may
be relied on. But that of eighty millions, proposed for the next year,
cannot be filled up, in the actual situation of things.
The Austrians have been successful in an attack upon Schabatz, intended
as a preliminary to that of Belgrade. In that on Dubitza, another town
in the neighborhood of Belgrade, they have been repulsed, and as is
suspected, with considerable loss. It is still supposed the Russian
fleet will go into the Mediterranean, though it will be much retarded by
the refusal of the English government to permit its sailors to engage in
the voyage. Sweden and Denmark are arming from eight to twelve ships of
the line each. The English and Dutch treaty you will find in the Leyden
gazettes of May the 9th and 13th.
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