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whom the former pitched his theatre latt- 
ly.at Zell, Hameln, and Lineburg, and the 
latter at Gliickftadt and Ritzebuttel ;—the 
South. Prufiian privileged fociety of Dob- 
belin, who have their head quarters at 
Ramit{ch;—the company of Medox, travel- 
ling about in Lufatiaand the Erzgebirges— 
the troop of Wilhelmi, exhibiting their art 
at Baden and Wienerifch-Neuftadt ;—de- 
ferve likewife fome attention. The fate 
of Buchner’s company, which was exiled 
from Mentz by the French, and the mem- 
bers of which aflembled again at Cologn, 
is wonderful.’ French buffoons, fent for 
by C.Rudler, performed at firft alternately 
with the German actors, but foon they 
drove the poor Germans entirely away, 
at whole reprefentations they had often 
expreffed their difpleafure, by crying, ce? 
bien Allemand! until they, by their Brutz/o 
convulfions and their Landing in England, 
were ‘funk to three fhillings a man, 
and the rotten body dificived of ittelf. 
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For the Monthly Magazine: 
ACCOUNT of the POLITICAL JOURNALS, 
Ge. in SWEDEN. 
HAT we faid above* of the defe&ts 
of the Danifh newfpapers, is ap- 
plicable to the Swedifh. To the Danith 
name for a newfpaner Tidende, the Swedith 
Tiduingar nearly approaches. The know- 
ledge of the German language and litera- 
ture in Sweden appears likewife from the 
many tranflations from it in Szfverffolpe’s 
Fournal for Svenfk Litcratur. Hence, as 
in Denmark, a great number of Hamburg 
newfpapers are circulated; for, by the 
fame riding poft, the packets of Hamburg 
Journals are conveyed as far as Corjcer, 
from which place they have but a fhort 
paflage acrofs the Sound; on whofe Swedith 
fhores, as likewife throughout ‘all Sweden, 
no regular poft-coaches exift for their fur- 
therance. They are likewife occafionally 
fent thence direétly to Stockholm, by hips. 
‘The BerlinJournal, but few other German 
gazettes, arrive by way of Pomerania, 
acrofs the Baltic. A tafte for newfpapers 
and journals is not generally diffufed 
among men of bufinefs, the burghers, and 
middling clafles; whence the number of 
Swedifh journals is equally fmall as in 
Denmark: {fu that, except the Literatur 
Tidning of Stockholm, there exilts no other 
Jearned journal in the whole kingdom. 
Since the commencement of French revo- 
lutionary war, prohibitions and reftric- 

* See the Account of Danifh New/papers in 
laft month’s Magazine, p. 327. 
Political Fournals, &c. in Sweden 
. [June r, 
tions relative to newfpapers have been 
greatly multiplied in Sweden. Already in 
September 1795, the paper entitled The 
Stockholm Extrapojften was forbidden ; 
and that, becaufe it confounded all notions 
of duty towards God, the king, and fellow. 
fubjects.. In March 1798, a fimilar pro- 
hibition and confifcation annihilated two 
other Stockholm newfpapers, viz. the Te- 
legraph and Colporteur, becaufe the editors 
had abufed the liberty of the prefs by ca- 
lumniating foreign courts and powers, the 
ftates of the kingdom, and private perions. 
At the fame time, the previous examina- 
tion of all the articles intended for newf- 
papers was, by a royal ediét; committed 
-to the chancery-chamber; whofe licence is 
declared abfolutely neceffary for the pub- 
lication of all newfpapers. Notwithftand- 
ing this feverity, an exprefs prohibition of 
the New/paper of and for Upfal, became 
neceflary. There was not, however, any 
reftri€tion yet as to the importation of 
foreign, or cve1 French, journals: as, on 
account of the high price, they found their 
way only into the houfes of the rich, or 
into the rooms of a few reading-focieties. 
The capital, Stockhclm, fupplies the 
whole kingdom with Swedif journals : 
four or five are publifhed almoft daily. 
The Dageliga Tidningar eller Dagligt alle- 
handa, the Stockholms Poften, and the 
Stockholms Poft-Tidningar, are the three 
moft ancient. In the year 1797, appeared 
an additional newfpaper, called the Kriegs- 
Tidningar, printed on fo {mall a type, that 
the ftrongeft eye cannot fupport the read- 
ing of it without pain. In 1798, S. Ek- 
manfon yublithed the Colportoren, and A, 
J. Nordftrom the Telegraphen, two weekly 
papers, which commented on political oc- 
curences, and with whofe modern titles 
the fpirit and fabftance of the contents 
perfectly correfpond. Thief fix newf 
papers very much refemble each other in 
form, the fize of the types, and the ftyle: 
the four firft are likewife advertifers, and 
fometimes contain literary articles. Of 
the proceedings of the Congrefs at Raftadt 
they furnifhed, during its continuance, 
many and authentic accounts; which cir- 
cumftance it is ealy to explain, when we 
recollect the numerous and {plendid Swedifh 
embafly there, and the many couriers fent 
by them to their court. The Jarikes 
Tidningar, publithed by J. A. Carlbohm 
(4to.), is exclufively appropriated to do- 
meftic occurrences, and to all articles of 
intelligence relative to the internal fiate 
of the kingdom, and therefore juftly de- 
ferves the name of a national newfs 
paper. 
Befides 
