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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1813. 



it might last; and the patriotism, 

 th2 good sense, and the manly spirit 

 of our fellow-citizens, are pledges 

 for the cheerfulness with which 

 they will bear each his share of 

 the common burthen. To render 

 the war short, and its success sure, 

 animated and systematic exer- 

 tions alone are necessary ; and the 

 success of our arms now, may long 

 preserve our country from the ne- 

 cessity of another resort to ihem. 

 Already have the gallant exploits 

 of our naval heroes proved to the 

 world our inherent capacity to 

 maintain our rights on one ele- 

 ment. If the reputation of our 

 arms has been thrown under clouds 

 on the other, presaging flashes of 

 heroic enterprize assure us, that 

 nothing is wanting to correspondent 

 triumphs there also, but the disci- 

 pline and habits which are in daily 

 progress.'' 



Treaty betiueen Russia and Sive- 

 den. — Substance of the Engage- 

 ?nents between the Courts oj St. 

 Petersburgh and Stockholm, 

 signed at St. Petersburgh the 

 2Uh of March, 1812, so far as 

 the same are referred to in the 

 Treaty betxxieen his Majesty and 

 the King of Sweden, signed at 

 Stockholm on the 3rd of March, 

 1813. 



The, object of the emperor of 

 Russia and the king of Sweden in 

 forming an alliance, is stated to be 

 for the purpose of securing reci- 

 procally their states and posses- 

 sions against the common enemy. 



The French government having 

 bythe occupation of Swedish Pome- 

 lania committed an act of hostility 



against the Swedish government, 

 and by the movement of its ar- 

 mies having menaced the tranquil- 

 lity of the empire cf Russia, the 

 contracting parties engage to make 

 a diversion against France and her 

 allies, with a combined force of 

 tnenty-five or thirty thousand 

 Swedes, and of fifteen or twenty 

 thousand Russians, upon such point 

 of the coast of Germany as may be 

 judged most convenient for that 

 purpose. 



As the king of Sweden cannot 

 make this diversion in favour of 

 the common cause, consistently 

 witli the security of his dominions, 

 so long as he can regard the king- 

 dom of Norwa}' as an enemy, his 

 majesty the emperor of Russia 

 engages, either by negociation or 

 by military co-operation, to unite 

 the kingdom of Norway to Swe- 

 den. He engages, moreover, to 

 guarantee the peaceable possession 

 of it to his Swedish majesty. 



The two contracting parties en- 

 gage to consider the acquisition of 

 Norway by Sweden as a prelimi- 

 nary military operation to the di- 

 version on the coast of Germany ; 

 and the Emperor of Russia pro- 

 mises to place for this object, at 

 the disposal and under the imme- 

 diate orders of the prince royal of 

 Sweden, the corps of Russian 

 troops above stipulated. 



The two contracting parties be- 

 ing unwilling, if it can be avoided, 

 to make an enemy of the king of 

 Denmark, will propose to that so- 

 vereign to accede to this alliance; 

 and will ofler to his Danish ma- 

 jesty to procure for him a complete 

 indemnity for Norway, by a terri- 

 tory more contiguous to his Ger- 

 man dominions, provided his Da- 

 nish mpjcsty will cede for ever his 



