uld be
found concerned in violating the peace between the two nations. *

* In the month of March, the states of Holland and West
Friesland having, after warm debates, agreed to the proposed
match between the princess Caroline, sister to the prince of
Orange, and the prince of Nassau Weilbourg, the nuptials
were solemnized at the Hague with great magnificence.

STATE OF THE POWERS AT WAR.

The war in Germany still raged with unrelenting fury, and the mutual
rancour of the contending parties seemed to derive fresh force from
their mutual disappointments; at least the house of Austria seemed
still implacable, and obstinately bent upon terminating the war with the
destruction of the Prussian monarch. Her allies, however, seemed less
actuated by the spirit of revenge. The French king had sustained so much
damage and disgrace in the course of the war, that his resources failed,
and his finances fell into disorder; he could no longer afford the
subsidies he had promised to different powers; while his subjects
clamoured aloud at the burden of impositions, the ruin of trade, and the
repeated dishonour entailed upon the arms of France. The czarina's zeal
for the alliance was evidently cooled by the irregular and defective
payments of the subsidies she had stipulated. Perhaps she was
disappointed in her hope of conquest, and chagrined to see her armies
retire from Germany at the approach of every winter; and the British
ministry did not fail to exert all their influence to detach her from
the confederacy in which she had embarked. Sweden still languished in an
effectual parade of hostilities against the house of Bran-denburgh; but
the French interest began to lose ground in the diet of that kingdom.
The king of Prussia, howsoever exhausted in the article of men, betrayed
no symptom of apprehension, and made no advance towards a pacification
with his adversaries. He had employed the winter in recruiting his
armies by every expedient his fertile genius could devise; in levying
contributions to reinforce the vast subsidy he received from England, in
filling magazines, and making every preparation for a vigorous campaign.
In Westphalia, the same foresight and activity were exerted by prince
Ferdinand of Brunswick, who in the beginning of summer found himself
at the head of a very numerous army, paid by Great Britain, and
strengthened by two-and-twenty thousand national troops.

DEATH OF THE LA