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Rh a Russian soldier was to be hung from each branch of the chandeliers. Their joy was extravagant when they found their fears were ill founded, and they embraced their French and Dutch guards as saviours and protectors. It added to their happiness, that they were well fed, comfortably sheltered from the inclemencies of the weather, and abundantly furnished with straw for beds. The church of Leyden, both in point of accommodations and provisions, was probably a palace compared with any dwelling which they had hitherto inhabited, and the men whom they regarded as their deadly and sanguinary enemy, they found to be generous and hospitable friends.

In later times, the Gazette of Leyden bore that kind of reputation in England which formerly was attached to the Brussels Gazette, with this difference, that the Leyden paper leaned with unwarrantable partiality to the politics of the stadtholder and Great Britain, while that of Brussels favoured their enemies, and therefore was received in England with