1809.] 
Where towns in the county do not 
afford accommodation for quartering the 
local militia, they may be marched into 
an adjoiming county, 
Adjutants and non-cominissioned offi- 
cers may train regular militia men until 
they can be marched to their regiment, 
Commanding officers may appoint a 
. quarter-master for their respective regi- 
ments. 
The qualification for officers of the 
militia may be in any part of Great Bri- 
tain. 
Local militia officers shail not be ex- 
empt from serving the office of shenff, 
a 
OS TATE 
State of Public Affairs in May. . (497 
No serjeant, corporal, or drummer, 
of any local militia on permanent 
pay as such, or as a musician in the 
band, shall be allowed to enlist in the 
army, navy, marines, orregular militia. 
Men shali not change their regiments 
in consequence of removing from one part 
of a county to another, and men shall 
not remove from one county to another 
while the regiment is assembled. 
No commissioned or nov-commission- 
ed efflicer, or private man, shall be sub- 
ject to the mutiny act, except while he 
is- receiving pay. 
[ Passed the 12th of May.] 
Sa eg ne Ee 
OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN MAY. 
Containing official Papers and authentic Documents. 
ERR 
SWEDEN. 
Letter from the Empero or Bonaparte to the Duke - 
of Suder mania. 
- MY. BROTHER—I have received your 
Royal Highness’s letter of the 17th 
March. You are right to believe that I wish 
Sweden to enjoy tranquillity, happiness, and 
peace with her neighbours: neither Russia, 
Denmark, nor myself, were eager to wage 
war against Sweden; buton the contrary, did 
every thing in our power to ward off disasters 
which it was easy to foresee. I-have taken 
the’ earliest opportunity to acquaint those 
courts with your Royal Highness’s sentiments 
and views, and trust that they will perfectly 
agree with me inopinion, and that it will not 
be our fault if Sweden should not be restored 
to the enjoyment of happiness and peace. As 
é0on as I Shall be informed of the intentions 
of my allies, I will not fail to communicate 
them to your Royal Hi ighness. In tire mean 
time, you will not entertain a doubt of the 
respect which [ entertain for your nation, of 
my wish fer its happiness, and of the high 
esteem with which vour character and virtues 
have inspired me for your Royal Highness. I 
pray to Gow to eh you, my brother, in his 
holy guard. 
*€ Your good Brother, 
‘‘ NaPOLEON.” 
Paris, April 12,°1809.” ‘ 
FRANCE. 
Among the correspondence published 
by the French government on the com- 
mencement of the wai with Austria, is 
the following curious letter. | 
Dishoteh of the 16th of August, sent to Gen. 
Aindrcos S5Yy thiough Count De Champagny. 
s¢ Monsieur |’Ambassadeur—His Majesty 
the Empero: is returnea from his journey into 
the South of France. He arrived on the 
evening of the 14th at St. Clous, and on the 
asth, being his birth-day, with the usual 
ceremony, received the Princes, ministers, 
great officers of the empire, the senate, the 
council of State, all the public functionaries, 
and, finally, the diplomatic body.--The au- 
dience which he gave to the diplomatic body 
was rendered remarkable by a long discourse 
his Majesty held with the Austrian ambas- 
sador, of which Ishall at least transmit you a 
short sketch.—-* Austria means to make war 
upon us,” said the Emperor, ‘or she means 
to frighten us... M.de Metternich bore tes- 
timony to the pacific dispositions of his go= 
vernment. ‘If so, why such enormous. pre- 
parations ?? ‘They are merely for defence,° 
said the Minister.—* But who attacks you, 
that you provide for your defence in sucha 
way? Who threatens you, that you should: 
think of being attacked? Is not all around 
you quiet? Has there been the least dispute 
hetween us since the peace of Presburg? 
Have lasked any thing of you P Has not the 
whole of our intercourse been friendly ? And 
yet all on a sudden you have set up a cry of 
war. You have put your whole population. 
inmotion, Ycur Princes have been running, 
through the provinces, and you have sent 
abroad the same proclamations, and taken 
just the same steps, you did when I was at 
Leobéen. Were this only a new organization, 
you would have done all this more slowly, ak 
less expence, with less violence, without cre~ 
ating sucha ferment at home, or raising such 
a disturbance abroad. But your measures’ -e 
not merely for defence. _ You nave added 1300 
men to each of your regimenis. Your militia 
will furnish you with 400,000men, which you 
can dispose of as you please. 
put into regiments. A part of them are 
cloathed, your fortresses are supplied with pro= 
visions Ina word, a sure sign that you are 
preparing for war is this; that you have been 
purchasing horses. You already possess’ 
14,000 forthe artillery. Such extraordinary 
expences are never made in the bosom of 
eace 
These men are .. 
