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STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN OCTOBER. 
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Containing official Papers and authentic Documents. 
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‘ c SWEDEN. ; 
WA VMLE King of Swedenlately aldressed 
the following letter to the Emperor 
sof Russia. ' 
_ ¢§ Honour and humanity enjoin me to 
make the most forcible remonstrances to, your 
‘Imperial Majesty, against the numberless 
“cruelties and the injustice committed by the 
Russian troops in Swedish Finland. These 
“proceedings are well known and confirmed to 
“require from me any proof of their reality, 
“for the blood of the ill-fated victims still cries 
“aloud ‘for vengeance against the abettors of 
“such enormities, Let not your Imperial 
»Majesty’s heart be insensible to the represen- 
tations which I find myself compelled to make 
~to you, in the name of my; faithful subjects. 
.in Finland. But what is the object of this 
war, as unjust as it is unnatural? it is not I 
Suppose to excite the strongest aversion for 
the Russian name? Is it criminal in my sub- 
jects in Finland not to have suffered them- 
selves to be seduced from their allegiance by 
“promises as false as the principles on which 
they are founded? Does it -become a sove- 
reign to make loyalty/a crime? I conjure 
your Imperial Majesty to put a stop to the 
calamities and horrors of a war which cannot 
fail to bring down on your own person and 
-government the curses of Divine Providence. 
Half of my dominions in Finland are already 
delivered. by my brave Finnish troops; your 
“Majesty’s fleet is shut up in Baltic Port, 
_ . without the hope of ever getting out, any 
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_ otherwise then asa conquest; ‘your flotilla of 
) gallies has. recently sustained a very severe 
_ cefeat, and. my troops are at this moment 
» Janding is Fin‘and, to reinfore those who wiil 
; point out to them the road to-honour and ‘to 
. glory. 
Head- quarters, Sept. 7; 1808. 
, i" ‘Gustavus ADOLPHUS, 
a FRANCE. 
‘The couscription for 1809 and 1810 
‘have been called ont, andall! the military 
energies of this empire are to be exerted 
against the Spaniards; who, on their 
_ parts, animated hy a cause which, they 
consider that of the people, are likely to, 
exceed their, opponents in, numbers, and 
in ardguy, jf notin military skill and ex- 
perience, Inthelatter they will speedily 
improve ; and if they continue unammois, 
they will afford another brilliant example, 
of the effects of a national common 
© “cause. 
To divert the minds of his subjects, , 
and the attention of the rest of Europe 
FR, the disgraceful posture of his affairs 
“in Spain, the French Emperor has pre- 
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yailed on the weak Ewiperor of Russi to . 
give him the meeting at Erfurth, in Sax- 
ony. ' “ : 
About the 1st of October these two 
potentates exhibited’ the farce of riding 
together into Erfurth, and the wily Em- 
peror of the French continued, down. to 
‘the departure of the last dispatches, , t 
maintain a mockery of personal respect 
towards this heir of Paul. 
The results of these deliberations will 
doubtless form a prominent feature of 
our future Numbers. a 
ITALY. 
The following decree was published in 
Naples on the 14th ofSeptember. =>” 
Joachim Napoleon, &c.—We have decreed, 
and do decree as:follows:: ne 
The provincial councils are’ convoked for 
the 15th ef October next, for the session of 
this year. ‘The. session will continue to the 
26th of the same month. 4 
The sessions of the district-councils shall 
be divided into two parts, one to precede the 
Sitting of the provincial councils, and to con= 
tinue five days, shall be assembled on the 5th 
of October ; the other to follow the provin« 
cial session, shall also continue for five days, 
and shall close on the 3tfst. 
His Majesty has given orders to pay up ime 
mediately the quarter's arrears due to the 
officers who have pensions, and to the invalids 
of the previnces.», His Majesty has also siz- 
nified his intention to assist the public chafi- 
table institutions. ‘ a 
Sunday at 9 o’clock.—Immediately after 
the levee, his Majesty received the caths of 
the officers of the crown, the chamberlains, 
the prefects, the esquires, the masters of the 
ceremonies, the captains of the chace, and the 
intendant of the royal howsehold. His Ma- 
jesty afterwards repaired to the chapel of the 
court, where he placed himselfon the throfe, 
ang, surrounded by the ministers, the council 
of state, and the grand officers of the crown, 
received the oath- of the archbishops. and 
bishops present in the capital. . The arche’ 
bishops were thuse of Reggio, Amalfi, and 
Conza; the bishops, those of Andria, Fondi, 
Aguela, Ugento, Tivento, Rola, Cotrona, 
Monte Pelizo, 'Tropen, Casortu, Atri, and 
Pinna.—His Eminence Cardinal Ferraro, 
Grand Almoner, presented them in succession, 
and they severally pronounced, With an au- 
dible voice, the following form: : 
* [swear and promise to'God, on the holy 
gospel, to preserve my obedience and fidelity 
to Joachim Napoleon, my august and lawful 
sovereign. 
telligence with the enemies of the state, to 
assist at no.council; tohaye no sort of Connec- 
tiun with those. who would disturb -the, public 
Y peace 
I promise besides to hold no in- + 
