Private letters from Berlin since the new year state that
the bowel complaint from which the King of Prussia has for some time been suffering, has assumed a fresh degree of intensity, so as to cause frequent giddiness, and even to have occasioned fainting-fits of some duration. These accidents seem to have excited considerable fears in the capital ; and the King himself is said to have been so much affected by them as to have made his last testamentary dispositions, which are supposed to be completely in favour of his wife, the Princess of Leignitz. The death of the King is looked upon with great dread in Prussia ; for then the pacific influence of Austria would be obliged to give way to the martial ascendancy of the Court of St. Petersburg, which com- pletely enthrals the mind of the Prince Royal.—Messager.
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