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STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS. IN. MARCH. 
Containing official Papers and authentic Documents. 
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SWEDEN. 
REVOLUTION has taken place 
1 Sweden. When the last dispatch- 
es left Gottenburgh, the king was a pri- 
soner, and Count Uglas, Coun: Fersen, 
aud others of his friends,- bad beea-ar- 
rested, ‘The tribunal lately instituted 
by the King, at Stockholm, jor the trial 
of some of his nobles, has been. dissol- 
ved. Overtures bad ‘also been made 
to the cabinets of Paris and Peters- 
burgh for the restoration of peace, 
Proclamation, 
6€ A considerable number of soldiers have 
taken up arms in order to march to the'capital, 
and relieve our common, now unfortunate 
and dismembered, native country. As our 
Ae citizens must be sensible that our 
ews are such as public spirit and honour dic- 
ue to virtuous minds, we cannot be mis- 
taken in our implicit ‘confidence, that our 
brethren in arms, and our unarmed fellow 
citizens, will not :form any incorrect opinion 
of our sentiments and views: they are merely 
these, that the states of the realm, and our ” 
legislators, shall be at liberty to assemble, 
and deliberate uncontrouled, on the means 
of reswuring the prosperity of -our suffering 
country. 
‘6 We have solemnly contracted the en- 
gagement to lay at their feet the arms which 
we have taken up to procure them freedom. 
We will form a wail around the hal! where 
Swedish legislators hold their deliserations, 
which no power upon earth shall be able to 
bear down. 
‘© We have solemnly contracted the, en- 
gagement, to destroy ali such as shall still 
endeavour fo! prefer foreign connection to 
the internal welfare and panuunity of Swe- 
den. 
~ ¢€ Sweden's German dbiatioite are ue. 
ed up to the enemy, and Finland, the native 
soil of a noble and gallant Réaplc, is lost. 
“© We have’'solemnly contracted the en- 
gagement, that nota single 
Sweedish cerritory shall be given up to the 
enemy. 
‘© Sweden’s trade and mines ate ruined and 
deserted ; Sweden’s youth are taken from 
agricultural pursuits, in order to be destroyed 
by sickness and the sword. ‘The burthess 
jaid on agriculture are such, that they cannct 
be borne: ‘any longer ; grinding taxes are ex- 
acted without mercy; desolation and misery 
are spreading wide and sik and threaten uni- 
versal ruin. ' 
*¢ We have contracted the solemn engage- 
ment, that the fathers of the country shall 
enjoy full liberty to restore the welfare and 
prosperity of the country. 
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inch more of the ° 
«¢ May the higher and lower States of the 
common weal also join heart and hand to as- 
sert the freedom of the country, and thus, 
by harmony 2nd well: concerted efforts, ensure 
success to Our enterprize and views. 
** May the fathers of the country offer 
peace end\amity to eur neighbours,but ace 
company this. ofer with the assurance that 
every Swedish hero will rather be buried un- 
der the ruins of his country than -sufter a 
single inch of Swedish ground to be taken ‘ad 
our enemies, or transferred to them.’ 
“ Our aie Great Britain, sig fea: to 
appreciate and value a nation, which knows 
how to break its fetters, and rescue liberty 
from its chains; France shall learn to re- 
spect a people, -anxious to rival her military 
prowess 5 the rulers of Russia and Denmark, 
‘incessantly’ engaged in pursuits tending to 
promote the prosperity of their people, will 
not disturb the peace and tranquillity of a 
nation, which merely desires to live or die 
independent. 
‘© We have sezn with sorrow the most ime 
portant concerns of Sweden, managed in a 
mauner which was as destitute of any well 
conceived plan as of success. 
«* Mizht not the remaining strength of 
Sweden have been wasted by folly? but if 
directed by wisdom, may it not be employed 
for the real benefit of the country ? 
«Such are our wishes for our country, 
and we shall readily sacrifice our lives to ob« 
_tain their fulflment. 
‘<Tt is of the utmost importance for Sweden 
thar every Swede should at length be allowed 
to return to a peaceful home, as far as it can 
be done without any disparagement to the 
honour and independence of Sweden. 
‘¢ The frontiers of the kingdom are for a 
short time left without defence, on account 
ofour departure from thence; but should 
the enemy, contrary to his solemn promise, 
avail himself of our absence to attack them, 
we shall speedily returnstake a severerevenge, 
and convince him of the difference of a war- 
fure carried on by personal hatred of the rulers, 
and a war urged by a.nation, anxious and dee 
termined to assert its Independence. 
‘© We implicitly confide, that all military 
Cornmanders will readily co- -operate with us, 
to secure, by speedy and vigorous exertion, 
the restoration of our lost- spy Ne in the 
destruction of our foreign foes. 
“¢ To conclude, we venture to express the 
wish, that our beloved countrymen. and fel 
low-citizens of every rank and description, 
may suspend their judgment on all further 
proceedings, until the decision of the states 
of the réalin shail be known. 
“© The Cowmander of” the troops stationed 
in Weimland,” 
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