THROUGH SWEDEN. 
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ing to enforce obedience, the general pulled out of his pocket a 
paper in which he had been inverted privately with the exclufive 
command of the flotilla. By this paper the prince learnt how 
little confidence w r as placed in him by the king. Kad the Ruf¬ 
fians held out but one hour longer, the whole Sewdifh fleet mull 
have been taken. The two fleets were equally crippled, and it 
was the retreat of the Ruffians alone that conftituted the Duke of 
Sudermania the hero of that naval engagement. 
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