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be always well treated by France; the 
merchant-ships of the people of Sweden 
will be well received by her; even the 
squadrons of Sweden, if they be in want, 
shall be victwalled in her ports; she will 
see in your flags only, the ensigns of 
Gustavus; the ships and the men shall 
be regarded as foreign from that boasting 
pageantry. And, with all this, when 
you have ijearnt the true situation of 
Europe, and have duly appreciated your 
own, France will then be ready to regard 
the true interest of your nation, to shut 
her eyes upon what you have been, or 
or what you shall have done.” 
Justly incensed at the publication of 
these insidious and imoudent remarks, 
the. King of Sweden immediately or- 
dered an official note on the subject, 
to be transmitted to Monsieur Caillard, 
the French Chargé d’Affaires at Stock- 
holm. It is short, but to the point; 
and these are the words. 
“‘ His majesty the King of Sweden has 
received a report of the impertinent, the 
insolent, and ridiculous observations, 
wan Monsieur Napoleon Bonaparte 
has allowed to be inserted in his Moni- 
teur of the 14th of August, 1804, under 
the article of Ratisbon. 
“The tone, the style, and even the 
subject of this article, are all of so ex- 
traordinary a nature, that his Majesty 
has yet been hardly able to comprehend 
the object of such an act of political ex- 
travagance. If it was done in the hope 
of misleading the public in their opinion 
of the conduct of his majesty, as 
appears from the uncommon pains 
that are taken to draw a line of separa- 
tion between his Majesty and his subjects, 
let the world understand, that any insti- 
gation to that effect never could have 
been less likely to succeed than at this 
moment, or than it always will be, with 
a people whose interests are bound up 
with those of a sovereign, who has never 
divided his prosperity from theirs; and 
who never feels so happy as wheu he con- 
tributes to the glory and tu the happi- 
ness of his subjects. 
“ As his Majesty cannot, consistently 
with his own dignity or the honour of 
his crown, permit any official intercouse 
‘after such an insult, he has ordered me, 
Sir, to communicate to you, that from 
this day, all diplomatic intercourse of 
every kind, both public and private, is 
immediately to cease between the French 
legation at Stockholm, and his Majesty’s 
government. 
“Asa sentence in the article aboye- 
Memoirs of Gustavus Adolphus IV. King of Sweden. 
[May 1, 
mentioned seems to imply that the French 
government is disposed to admit that the 
continuance of the commercial inter- 
course between Sweden and France, 
would be attended with some advantages ; 
his Majesty, on his part, is willing to 
permit the same, from those sentiments 
of esteem which he has always entertain- 
ed for the French people; sentiments 
which he has inherited from his ances- — 
tors, and which owe their origin to far 
happier times.’ 
‘As Duke of Anterior Pomerania, it 
does not appear that the King of 
Sweden had been accustomed to take 
a very active part in the affairs of the 
Germanic body: but a just sense of the 
danger to which the constitution of the 
Empire was exposed, from the views of 
France, and a wise foresight of a general 
subversion of all the ancient established 
forms of government in Europe, if the 
immeasurable ambition of the haughty 
Corsican were not effectually restrain- 
ed, might well induce Gustavus, a mo- 
narch “who inherited with his crown a 
hatred to tyrants, to express himself 
against France, with peta vx? digni- 
ty, and firmness. 
To add to these reasons, the recent, 
most unjust, and cruel murder of the 
young and magnanimous Duke d’Enghien 
operated so powerfully on the heart of 
Gustavus, as to determine his unap- 
peasable enmity against Bonaparte; 
whom he could regard in no better light 
than as the dictator of France, and the 
general scourge of nations. 
Since the King of Sweden first uns 
sheathed his sword against his mighty 
enemy, it is marvellous to behold the con- 
quests of the one and the resolution of 
the other. The bloody wreaths won on 
the plains of Avsteriitz and Friediand, 
are yet greenon the brows of Napoleon ; 
and still Gustavus ‘s undismayed. Str aye 
sund and Rugen are lost; but no particle of 
their monarch’s glory has fallen with them. 
No Swedish artillery or ammunition swell 
the arsenals of their enemy; no Swe- 
dish subiects fill his prisons: when over- 
powered by numbers, they either died 
sword in poy or retired in the Parthian 
manner, naking a dreadful havoc amongst 
the Tench troops, who dared to disturb 
their retreat. - 
The Northern ally of the King of Swe-. 
den is fallen from his side; the peace of 
Tilsit is Aes and Gustavus stands 
alone on the Continent, with all the 
arms of the conqueror ‘levelled at his 
breast! 
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