33.] Won't coalesce, it seems, in spite of the Czar's high wishes.

An emblem of much that befell the poor Czar in his present high course of good intentions and headlong magnanimities!--We return to Hordt:-- THE CZAR WEARS A PORTRAIT OF FRIEDRICH ON HIS FINGER.

"Czar Peter never disguised his Prussian predilections.

One evening he said, 'Propose to your friend Keith [English Excellency here, whom we know] to give me a supper at his house to-morrow night.

The other Foreign Ministers will perhaps be jealous; but I don't care!' Supper at the English Embassy took place.