67- 

 THE BEE, 



OR 



lirERARY WEEKLY INrELLIGENCERy 



FOR 



Wednesday, March a8. 1792. 



SLIGHT MEMORANDUMS 



OF THE KING OF SWEDEN. 



With a portrait. 

 Sweden has undergone a greater number of revolu. 

 tions in modern times than any other country in Eu- 

 rope. For about two hundred years past there has 

 heen a continued struggle between what thej called 

 liberty and despotism, yet they have not so far advanced 

 in che science of government, as to be able to disco- 

 ver the fundamental maxim on which true liberty 

 depends, viz, " That the legislative and the executive 

 powers fhould never be suffered to unite in the same 

 hand, and that the judicial power Ihould be distinct 

 from both." Hence every revolution has been to 

 them merely a change of masters, and has only gi- 

 ven room to new systems of opprefsion. 



When the present king came to the throne, the go- 

 vernment was a cruel aristocracy, though it afsu- 

 ■med the name of a regal state. When this form of 



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