only, it is certain the Prince-Royal must mean to run away," and
so make it a Double one in time.

Yes, indeed! But these were transient terrors. The day is our own,
my Grumkow; yes, our own, my Nosti:--and so our Colloquy of
Rookeries shall be suppressible henceforth.


HIS MAJESTY GETS SIGHT OF THE ST.-MARY-AXE DOCUMENTS;
BUT NOTHING FOLLOWS FROM IT.

We have only to add what Hotham reports (Berlin, May 6th), That he
"has had an interview with his Majesty, and spoken of the
St.-Mary-Axe affair; Knyphausen having found a moment to lay it
before his Majesty." So that the above Excerpts from St. Mary Axe
(all but the last two),--the above, and many more suppressed by
us,--are in his Majesty's hands: and he is busy studying them;
will, it is likely, produce them in an amazed Tobacco-Parliament
one of these evenings!--

What the emotions of the royal breast were during the perusal of
this extraordinary dialogue of birds, which has come to him
through St. Mary Axe--? Manifold probably: manifold, questionable;
but not tragical, or not immediately so. Certainly it is definable
as the paltriest babble; no treason visible in it, nor
constructive treason; but it painfully indicates, were his Majesty
candid, That his Majesty is subject to spies in his own House;
nay that certain parties do seem to fancy they have got his
Majesty by the nose, and are piping tunes with an eye to his
dancing, thereto. This is a painful thought, which, I believe,