Whereupon a small handful, now free enough, and NOT to be thrown out of window, whom Lacy had about him, proceed to elect August of Saxony; he, on the 5th of October, still one day within the legal six weeks, is chosen and declared the real King:--'twelve senators and about six hundred gentlemen' voting for him there, free they in Lacy's quarters, the rest of Poland having lain under compulsion when voting for Stanislaus.

That is the Polish Election, so far as Poland can settle it.

We said the Destinies had ceased, some time since, to ask Poland for its vote; it is other people who have now got the real power of voting.

But that is the correct state of the poll at Warsaw, if important to anybody." August is crowned in Cracow before long; "August III.," whom we shall meet again in important circumstances.

Lacy and his Russians have voted for August; able, they, to disperse all manner of enthusiastic Polish Chivalry; which indeed, we observe, usually stands but one volley from the Russian musketry; and flies elsewhither, to burn and plunder its own domestic enemies.