RUSSIA. AND GERMANY.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—History once again repeats itself in the present European situation. One hundred and fifty years ago, at the crisis of the Seven Years' War, Prussia was saved from imminent disaster by the defection of Russia from her alliance with' France and Austria. Frederick the Great, attacked on three fronts by the allied armies, was hard pressed, and Russian troops had already occupied Berlin.
The sudden death of the Tsarina Elizabeth changed the whole situation. Her unworthy successor, Peter of Holstein, not only made peace with Prussia, but lent Frederick twenty thousand excellent Russian soldiers to reinforce his shattered armies. Now once more Russia has come to the relief of the old oppressor and natural enemy of the Slavonic peoples of Eastern Europe.—I am,
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