624, 
of a conceited egotism, and an hy- 
pecritical contradictions but when we 
simply pretend that there is no moral 
evidence so immaculately clear, as to 
preclude all obscuration of doubt, we 
confess merely the present imperfection, 
and immaturity of our nature. In the 
ardour and inexperience of youth, a pee 
remptory positiveness of apinion, as well 
as arashness.of action, may be capable - 
of excuse, if not even, somewhat deser'v- 
ing of praise; but difiidence gradually 
grows upon the stem of declining life; 
STATE 
Siate of Public Affairs in Noveméber. 
OF PUBLIC AF 
[Dec 14. 
and even long before an approach to the | 
declivity of existence, unlimited dog- 
matism affords strong suspicion of very 
limited information.. In the degree in - 
whieh our actual knowledge advances, - 
we increase likewise our acquaintance 
with its comparative deficiency. The 
expansion of intelleetual. vision wideng 
proportionably the circumference of 
apparent darkness. 
Nov. 25, 1809. J. REDB. 
Grenville-sireet, Brunswick-square. 
7 
FAIRS IN NOVEMBER. 
Containing official Papers and authentic Documents. 
=i 
SWEDEN. 
The articles of the treaty of peace between 
Sweden and Russia are twenty-one in num- 
ber.. His, Swedish Majesty engages, in the 
second article, to neglect nothing which may 
tend to the prompt ¢onclusion of peace with 
the French Emperor and, the King of Den- 
mark, In 2 subsequent article, he promises 
to accede to the continental system. In the 
third, he engages, from the exchange of the 
gatifications, to order ‘¢ the Swedish ports to° 
be closed against the ships of war and mer- 
chantmen of Great Britain, with the excep- 
tion of the importation of salé and colonial pro- 
guctions, which habit has rendered necessary 
to the peopie of Sweden.”+-In the fourth, 
the following governments, with all their de- 
pendencies, are for ever ceded to Russia; 
mamely, Kymenagard, Nyland and Tavast- 
*chus, Abo and Bjorneborg, with the jsles 
Aland, Savolax, and Corelia, Wasa, Uleaborg, 
snd part of West Bothnia, extending to the ri- 
wer of Tornea, as shal] be fixed in the subse- 
quent article in the dgmarkation of the fron 
fiers.—-The fifth, declares that the sea of 
Aland (Alanis Haf), the gulph of Bothnia, 
and the rivers of Tornea and Muonip, shall 
hereafter form the frontier between Russia 
zad the kingdom of Sweden. The .nearest 
islands at-an equal distance from the mains 
Jand of Aland and Finland shall belong to 
Russia, and those which are ngarest to the 
Swedish coast shall belong to Sweden. The 
gost advanced points of the Russian territory 
at the mouth of the river of Tornea, shall be 
the isle Pjorken, the port of Renzehamn, 
vand the peninsula cn which the town of Tor- 
fica stands, The frontier shail then be ex- 
tended along the river Tornea to the con- 
fluence of the two branches of that river near 
Keagis. It shall then follow the course of 
the river Muonio, passing in the front of 
Muonioniska, Muogie Otreby, Palajocus, 
Rultane, Enotekis, Kelottijorfoi, Pairike, 
Huimzha, Ranuula, and Kilpisjaure to Nor-— 
WayomIn the course of ths rivers Tornes and 
” 
Muonio, such as it has been described, the 
islands situated to the east of the Thalwag 
shal! belong to Russi2, and those to the west 
of the Thalwag to Sweden. 
By the sixteenth, the Russian monarch 
agrees to extend the duration of the treaty of 
commerce between the two powers till the 
tst of February, 1813, that is, allowing for 
the interruption occasioned by the war,—The 
seventeenth, taking inte consideration the 
long intercourse, neighbourhood, and recipros 
eal wants of Sweden and Finland, allows the 
Fins, until arrangements can be made for con- 
solidating ‘their commercial relations, to exe 
port from Sweden, ore, smelted iron, lime, 
stones for building, smelting furnaces, and 
all other productions of the soil; in return, 
the Swedes may export from Finland, cattle, 
fish, corn, cloth, pitch, planks, wooden uten- 
sils of afl kinds, wood for building, and, in 
general, all the other productions of the soil 
of the grand duchy. The other articles are 
only of iocal interest. mn : 
Abst act of the New Swedish Constitution. 
SecT1oN 1 to 9,—-The yovernment of 
Sweden shall be monarchical and hereditarv, 
with limitation to the issue male. The king 
must be of the true evangelical religion, and 
must govern conformably to this constitutioa, 
and with, and by, the advice of a council of 
state (stats rad), the members of which are 
to be appointed by the king, who is wholly 
exempt from responsibility, but the members 
are responsible for their advice. The mem- 
bers must be natives of Sweden, and of the 
true evangelical faith. The council shal! 
consist of nine members, viz the ministér of 
‘state for judicial affairs, the minister of state 
for foreign affairs, six counsellors, of whom, 
three at leastemust be civil officers, and the 
chancellor of the court.- The ‘secretaries of 
state shall have a seat in the council, when- 
ever any case belonging ta theiy respgctiye 
‘departments shall be under deliberation, A 
father and son, or two brothers, cannot bg 
members of the counci! at the same time. 
Shege 
