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independence of his -Majesty’s dominions, 
and t) maintain, against any undue preten- 
sions, and» against any hostile confederacy. 
those just rights which his Majesty is always 
desirous to exercise with temper and modera- 
tion; but which, as essential to the honour 
ef his crown, and the true interests of bis 
people, he is determined never to surrender.” 
The British government, apprehensive 
lest by the intrigues and influence of 
France a league should be entered into 
by the naval powers of the North, and 
our commerce shut out of the Baltic, 
judged it necessary to send a powerful 
naval and land force to take possession 
of the Island of Zealand, and of Copen- 
hagen. Accordingly on the 26th of July, 
‘the first division of the expedition s: ailed. 
The land forces amounted to upwards of 
thirty thousand men, under Lord Cath- 
cart and General Baird, and the naval to 
twenty-four sail. of the line, under, the 
command of Admiral Gambier and Sir 
Home Popham. 
SWEDEN. 
The young King of Sweden is now the 
only Pote éntate on the Continent of Eu- 
rope who refuses to bend his neck to the 
domination of Bonaparte. After the 
Treaty of Peace between Russia, Prus- 
sia, and France, this hercic Monarch 
issued the following spirited proclama- 
tion :— 
Proclamation of the King of Sweden. 
Inthe Fortress of Stralsund, 1807. 
*¢ German soldiers !—A Tere Prince 
still sneaks to you, who has never forgot 
what is due to honour and duty. Sti!l his 
voice haiis you, to remind you that you are 
a nation destined to honour and indepen- 
dence, but not to infamy and oppression. 
Your Princes have forgot the loyalty of their 
ancestors; tney have forgot that Germany is 
bu‘ one state, and the Germans but one na- 
tion: they have exposed you to the most in- 
famous destiny, to promote the abhorred 
principles of the Corsican Napoleon Bona- 
parte.. Shake off, then, in God’s name, the 
agnominious bondage; never can a more fa- 
vourable oppertunity occur to turn your arms 
against the oppressors of your unhappy coun- 
try. From the ramparts of Stralsund, the 
only independent Uurgh remaining in Germa- 
ny, which has bid defiance to tints, thousands 
will descend, and unite with you in your Ge- 
liverance.” 
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PRUSSIA; 
‘Bigbiy. seventh Bulletin of the Grand Army. 
“¢ Konigsberg, Fuly 12- 
*¢ The Emperors of France and Russia, 
after twenty days residence at Tilsit,; where 
the Imperial Palac-s were in the same street, 
and at uo great distance, toek leave of each 
other with the greatest cordiality, at three 
o’clock in the afternoon of the 9th. The 
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State of Public Affairs in August. 
—Orders . have been 
[Sept. 1, 
Journal which contains an account of what 
passed between them, will be very interesting 
to both nations. - 
‘© At half past four, the Emperor Napoleon 
having received a visit from the King. of 
Prussia, who came to take his leave, set out 
for Konigsberg, where he arrived at ten at 
night. The King of Prussia went toMemel, 
‘Yesterday the Emperor Napoleon ine 
spected the port of Konigsberg, tn a boat 
manned by the Imperial Guayét: To day his 
Majesty wiil review Marsal Souit’s Corps, 
and at two o’clock to-morrow he will -set out 
sec belingen 
‘ The namber of Russians killed in the 
Battle of Friedland amounts to 17,500, the 
prisoners to 40,000; 13,000 of whon have. 
already passed through Konigsberg, 7000 
remain sick in the hospita's, and the rest 
have been conducted to Thorn and Warsaw. 
isa to send them 
home to Russia, without delay’; 7000 have 
already returned again to Konigsberg. Those 
in France are to be formed “into provisional 
regiments, The Emperor has ordered them 
to be cloathed and armed. | 
‘© ‘Phe ratifications of the Treaty io Peace 
between France ae Russia were exchanged 
at Tilsit on the 9 The ratigcation o° the 
Treaty of Peace pera France and Prussia 
will be exchanged here this aay. | 
‘< The Plenipotentiaries charged with 
these negociations were, on the part of France, 
the Prince of Benevento; Princes Kurakin 
and Labanoff, on the part of Russia;,on the 
part of Prussia, Field Marshal Couat Kalk- 
reuth andthe Count de Goltz. atl 
‘* After such events as these, one cannot 
hut smile when the great English expedition 
is mentioned, and at the new frenzy which 
animates the King of Sweden. _ Besides,.we 
may remark that the army of observation, 
petween the Elbe andthe Oder, is 70,000 
strong, exclusive of the Grand Army, with- 
out including the Spanish divisions, which 
are now upon the Oderalso. It was, there- 
fore, necessary for England to have brought 
her whole force together, her soldiers, her 
volunteers, fencibles, &c. in order to have 
made a diversion of any interest Sut when 
we take into our account, that England, urder 
the present circumstances, has sent 6000 
men to Egypt only to be slaughtered by the 
Arabs, and 7000 men to the Spanish West 
Indies, we can alone feel sentiments oF pity 
for the extravagant avarice with which that 
cabinet is fomeneten: . 
‘¢ Phe peace of Tilsit puts an end ip the 
operations of the army: notwithstand' ‘Dg this, 
all the Prussian coasts and | pues will be shut 
against the English; andit is prooaole that the 
Caanncat blockade will not prove, amen» 
sound. r 
‘<The Porte is included in the Treatys 
The revolution. which lately occutred at 
Constantinople, was an Anti-christian revo- 
lution, which has nothing in common Bis 
the policy of Europe. 
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