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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



was not to be treated in any other 

 manner than that of which he had 

 previously to complain, and he re- 

 serves to himself the privilege of de- 

 manding reparation for the injuries 

 done to his subjects or his flag at 

 suchopportunity,andbysuchn]eans, 

 as the particular situation may af- 

 ford. His majesty, however, ought 

 not to conceal, that, in the present 

 case, the injury which has thence 

 resulted toafriendlypowergiveshim 

 so much the more uneasiness,as he re- 

 gards the capture made by the Eng- 

 lish as very illegal, and he is an- 

 xiously desirous of beingible, by his 

 representations, to contribute to its 

 restitution. His majesty will cer- 

 tainly make every exertion to effect 

 an arrangement upon which the 

 continuance of amicable relations 

 between Sweden and Spain is un- 

 expectedly made to depend ; but 

 he cannot, at present, take those 

 steps with respect to the two fri- 

 gates which he has not hitherto 

 taken with respect to his own con- 

 voys, nor give the court of S])ain 

 any better hopes than he has himself. 

 . The undersigned embraces this 

 occasion, &c. 



D'Ehrenheim. 



B-ephj of the Spanish Minister to Ike 

 Note trans7nittcd to him by the 

 Swedish Minister, October 22. 



Stockholm, Dec. 29, 1800. 



Sir, 



I have this moment received from 

 my court an answer to the dis- 

 patches, in which I communicated 

 the first steps I had taken with his 

 Swedish majesty, when I had the 

 honour to present my first note on 

 the subject of the outrage of which 

 the English were guilty in the road 

 of Barcelona. 



The king, my master, has ob- 



served with regret the coldness with 

 which the Swedish court has recei- 

 ved the complaint, while it has con- 

 fined itself to feeble and indecisive 

 measures, from which it does not 

 even indulge the hope of any ad- 

 vantage. This view of the matter 

 shews the smallinterest with which 

 Sweden is prepared to act in the 

 business. I cannot conceal from 

 you, sir, that this inactivity, which 

 is observed in the applications of 

 the court of Sweden to that of Lon- 

 don, might afford room to believe 

 that this negociation will be con- 

 nected with other objects of private 

 interest which demand temporising 

 measures, incompatible with that 

 energy and zeal which his Catholic 

 majesty expected to see displayed by 

 his Swedish majesty, in regard to an 

 affair, which, as it involves the ho- 

 nour of his flag, would have afford- 

 ed him an occiision to prove to 

 Europe the warm part he takes in 

 theinterest of the maritime powers, 

 as well as to testify the value he 

 puts upon the good understanding 

 which hitherto has prevailed be- 

 tween the two courts. In pur- 

 suance of a new order from my 

 court, I repeat, and formally insist 

 upon what I demanded in my last 

 note of the 1 7th October. I fondly 

 flatter myself, that his Swedish ma- 

 jesty will adopt far more active mea- 

 sures than the contents of your note 

 allowed me to hope. It is not pro- 

 bable that you will expose Swedish 

 ships to all the severity of the mea- 

 sures which circumstances require 

 to be exercised against suspected 

 vessels, and whose conduct might 

 be considered as connived at, un- 

 less the Swedish court receives from 

 England the most ample reparation 

 respecting the affair of Barcelona. 



I have the honour to be, &c. 

 (Signed) The chevalierdeHuerla. 



