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Majesty the King of Sweden, the sum of 
1,200,0001. sterling, in equal instalments of 
200,0001. sterling each per month, beginning 
with the month of January of the present 
year inclusively, and to continue successively 
Jn the course of each month, the firft of which 
instalments shall be paid onthe ratification of 
the present convention by his Swedish 
Majesty. 
Il. His Majesty the King of Sweden en- 
ges, on his part, to employ the said sum in 
putting rmto motion, ana keeping ona res- 
pectable establishment, all his land forces, 
and such part as shall be necessary of his 
Heets, and particularly his flotilla, in order to 
oppose the most effectual resistance to the 
common enemies. 
{Il. Their said Majesties moreover engage 
to conclude no peace, or truce, or convention 
of neutrality, with the enemy, but in concert, 
and by mutual agreement. 
IV. The present convention shall be rati- 
fied by the two high contracting parties, and 
3ts ratification shall be exchanged at London 
within the space of six weeks after the signa- 
ture of the said convention, or sooner if it can 
be done. 
in faith whereof, we the undersigned pleni- 
potentiaries of their said Majesties, have 
signed the present conven:ion, and have cau- 
sed the seal of our arms to be affixed thereto. 
Done at Stockholm, the 8th of February, 
in the Year of Redemption, one thou- 
sand eight hundred and eight. 
Epwarp TuornTen, (L.S.} 
F. Exrznueim, (L.S.) 
Separate Article—The two high contrac- 
ting parties have agreed to concert, as soon as 
possible, the measures to be taken, and the 
auxiliary succours to be stipulated for, in the 
case of @ war actually taking place between 
Sweden and the Powers her neighbours 5 and 
the stipulations which may ‘thence result 
shall be considered as separate and adcitional 
atticles to this convention, and shall have 
the same force as if they were word for word 
inserted therein. . 
In faith of which, we the undersigned pleni- 
potentiaries of their said Majesties, have 
signed this separate article, and have caused 
the seal of our arms to be affixed thereto. 
Done at Stockhoim, the 8th of February 
in the Year of our Redemption, 1808. 
. Epwarp Tuornton, (L.S.) 
F. Evxrenneim, (LS. 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
The British Parliament, since its meet- 
- ing, has been chiefly occupied in debates 
on the impolicy of the late Orders in 
Council, and on the injustice of the late 
Expedition against Copenhagen. ' 
On the 9th of March, Lerd Erskine 
moved some resolutions relative to the 
iHegality of the Orders in Council, in the 
House of Lords, which were negatived 
by 127 against 61. 
State of Public Affairs in March. 
fApril t, 
And on the 22d, Lord Lauderdale 
moved the following, which were also 
negatived by 56 against 21 :-— 
1st. Resolved, That the unprecedented 
commercial warfare in which his Majesty has 
been advised to involve this country, by 
his late Orders in Council, must be pecu- 
liarly injurious to 2 nation whose extended 
concerns give her an interest, more or less 
direét, in all the mercantile transactions of 
the world. | 
2d. Resolved, That it appears to this 
House, that the system adopted by the said 
orders, threatens the immediate extinction of 
of maritime commerce—for while, on the 
one hand, the navy of Great Britain will, in 
a great measure, prevent a]l communication 
with the Continent of Europe, except thro* 
this country and her allies—it cannot be 
doubted that the armies of France and of the 
nations under her subjection may, on the 
other hand, easily put an end to any such 
directintercourse between this country and the 
Continent. 
3d. Resolved, That such annihilation of 
all maritime commerce, whilst it -must to- 
tally exclude the produce and manufactures 
of this island from a foreign market, will 
leave to our enemies these means of trading 
in the produce and manufactures of the Con- 
tinent, which the land-carriage and internal 
navigation of such extensive countries must 
afford-—means which their industry, urged by 
the neceffity of the case, must rapidly ime 
prove and extend. 
4th. Resolved, That it appears to this 
House, that there is just ground to apprehend 
that the exclufion of colonial produce from 
the Continent of Europe, if it could be ef- 
fected, would close many of those channels. 
of industry, by the means of which the com- — 
merce and manufactures of this country have 
attained an unparalleled degree of prosperity ; 
—that it would divert the labour of the Con- 
tinent from the prodution of those articles 
for which maritime commerce has hitherto 
afforded a vent, to the culture of those pro- 
ductions for the supply of which the extinc- 
tion of such commerce must create an impe- 
rious demand. 
5th. Resolved, That ft appears to this. 
House, that the manufaétures of this coun- 
try must sustain irreparable injury, from for- 
cibly diverting the labour of America, by the 
annihilation of maritime commerce, to the 
manufacture of those articles which habit 
has made neeessary to that country, and the 
furnishing of which has long given suste- 
nance to thousands of our Mdustrious coun- 
trymen. / 
6th. Resolved, That this system which 
his Majesty’s Orders in Council are intended 
to enforce, whether regarded as a source of 
revenue ora measure of hostility, appears to 
this House equally nugatory and absurd :—as 
a source of revenue its success must depend 
en the so-opcration of the neutral whose 
; property 
