The czar quitted his army with some precipitation, as if he had been afraid of hazarding his person, while Charles advanced through ways that were thought impracticable, and surprised the enemy.

He broke into their camp before they had the least intimation of his approach, and totally routed them after a short resistance.

He took a great number of prisoners, with all their baggage, tents, and artillery, and entered Narva in triumph.
The parliament meeting on the sixth, was prorogued to the tenth day of February, when Mr.Harley was chosen speaker by a great majority, in opposition to sir Richard Onslow.

The king had previously told sir Thomas Lyttleton, it would be for his service that he should yield his pretensions to Harley at this juncture; and that gentleman agreed to absent himself from the house on the day of election.

The king observed in his speech, that the nation's loss in the death of the duke of Gloucester, had rendered it absolutely necessary for them to make further provision for the succession of the crown in the protestant line; that the death of the king of Spain had made such an alteration in the affairs of the Continent, as required their mature deliberation.