Private letters from Leipsie of the 10th state, that accounts
had been received there of serious disturbances at Dresden. The Sovereign of Saxony is another exceedingly fitting inmate for the royal retreat of Lulworth. He took it into his head lately, to ab- jure the faith of which his family had been such gallant and zealous defenders, and to turn Roman Catholic; and not content with his own conversion, he must needs prevail on his people to be converted also. Such conduct, in the year 1830, is more deserving of pity than of censure. The people of Leipsic spurned the foolish and impudent attempt to deprive them of the noblest liberty that men can own: but the inhabitants of Dresden, it seems, were not content with merely repelling the efforts of the royal bigot—they attacked the Guards on which he relied, and cast them and him out of their Protestant city. The hotel of the first Minister, who is looked on everywhere as the instigator to mischief, was burnt to the ground in the struggle. The King is said to have resigned the throne to his son, and to have abandoned his kingdom as well as capital. "Another, and another, and another r—when are these royal pilgrimages to have an end ? CHARLES the Tenth sought for an asylum from his cousin of Dresden, and his cousin of Dresden is in another month seeking an asylum for himself. We live in strange times. " The stars of heaven fall together as a fig-tree droppeth its untimely figs When it is shaken of a mighty wind." ,Saxony, too, has its National Guard, that plucker down and setter up of Kings !
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