I disdain to speak of other princes...

That King of Sweden, who has only twenty-five millions income, and who spends two-thirds of it in poor pay for an army of generals and a small number of discontented soldiers...

As to that princess (Catherine II.), whose dislike of the French constitution is well known, and who is about as good looking as Elizabeth, she cannot expect greater success than Elizabeth in the Dutch revolution." (Brissot, in this last passage, tries to appear at once witty and well read.)] [Footnote 2351: Letter of Roland to the king, June 10, 1792, and letter of the executive council to the pope, Nov.

25, 1792.

Letter of Madame Roland to Brissot, Jan.