The Virginia Gazette

March 3. Private Advices from Sweden assure, That the Discontents of the Nation increase every Day; the King had renewed his Resolution of actually going to leave them, and that the Palace at Cassel, the Capitol of his German Dominions, is fitting up for his Reception.

The Characteristic of his Swedish Majesty, as of the illustrious House of Hesse Cassel in general, is Good-Nature. They have been always great Lovers of Peace and Concord; and many of their Princes have been eminent for Piety and Sanctity of Life: The whole Family are Calvinists.

The Grounds of the National Discontents are not yet become the Subject of publick Discussion; they are, nevertheless, well enough known. The Lutherans in general, and the Swedes in particular, lead strict and regular Lives; they are enemies to all Gallantries. The late King Charles XII. who, by his Heroism, had quite ruin'd the Nation, (as his present Majesty, by cultivating the Arts of Peace, has restored it,) was pardon'd a thousand Failings, on the single Score of the sober and regular Life which he led.

The Queen is inconsolable, as she sees the Burden of the Government must again be laid upon her, and that She is like to be deprived of the Presence of the King, (who she perfectly adores) for a long Time.
The late Treaty concluded with France, has served
but to heighten these Discontents: tho' it's Believ'd the
King had but very little Hand in it. A Friendship with
France, in the wiser Sort of Swedes, can only be of
some temporary Advantage, to circulate a little Money
among the Subsidiary Troops, and a few Particulars;
whereas the Friendship of Great-Britain, which we have
rejected, is a National Good, and must be eternally use-
ful, as she alone, by her Fleets, is able to protect us, a-
gainst the Power upon Earth, we have the most Reason
to dread.