The King
of Sweden will act as nobody, not even himself, can foresee; because he
acts from the caprice of the moment, and because the discontents of
his army and nobles may throw him under internal difficulties, while
struggling with external ones. Denmark will probably only furnish
its stipulated aid to Russia. France is fully occupied with internal
arrangements. So that, on the whole, the prospect of this summer is,
that the war will continue between the powers actually engaged in the
close of the last campaign, and extend to no others; certainly it will
not extend, this year, to the southern States of Europe. The revolution
of France has gone on with the most unexampled success, hitherto. There
have been some mobs, occasioned by the want of bread, in different parts
of the kingdom, in which there may have been some lives lost; perhaps a
dozen or twenty. These had no professed connection, generally, with the
constitutional revolution. A more serious riot happened lately in Paris,
in which about one hundred of the mob were killed. This execution has
been universally approved, as they seemed to have no view but mischief
and plunder.
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