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STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, , 
In May, 1800. 
RUSSIA. 
WHE Ruffian General Sicanoff has fallen 
avictim tothe baleft treachery at Ba- 
cou, in Perfia. Juftias the place was to have 
been fiurmed, a capitulation being de- 
manded, and granted, the Ruffian Com- 
mandant trufted himfelf in a tent between 
the camp and the place, when having but 
few attendants, he was furprifed and maf- 
facred by a numerous bandicti. 
SWEDEN, 
Swedife Head Quarters at Griefswald, April 26, 
‘¢ The verorts fent in by Count Lowen- 
hielm of the 234, mention that the Pruffians 
took poffeffion of feveral villages in Mecklen- 
burg, near the frontier of Lauenburg, on the 
arft and 22d. Near Marzienftatt a corps of 
Videttes approaclied within 3°00 paces of the 
Swedes. Count Lowenhielm’s main body 
was then at Grofs Zecher and Seedorf 5 thie 
S wedith guards were in poffeffion of Marieu- 
fiatt, Sophienthyl, the bridge at Buchen, the 
Palmfchleufe, and the landing place between 
Lauenburg and Artlenburg. ( 
<< Yefterday morning Lieut, Baron Clas 
Kalame arrived here as a courier, with a re- 
port from Count Lowenhielm, dated Godef- 
buth, April 23, mentioning, that ‘about nine 
in the morning of the fame day, the Prufiians 
had entered the Lavenburg territory, near 
Marienftatt, and were fo fuperior in their 
number, that the Swecith troops, after mak- 
ing a vigorous reGftance, were compelled to 
retreat, and towards the evening to leave the, 
_country. Count Lowenhielm’s lofs confifts 
of one huflar fhot dead, eight wounded, and 
fix horfes partly killed and wounded. The 
lofs of the Pruffians we are not yet able to 
afcertain, though during the conteft feveral 
men were obferved to have been fhot. 
Lowenhielm has referved a more extended 
detail for another opportunity, and which, 
in refpe& to the conduét of the Pruffians, 
will be very copious; thefe difpatches may 
be hourly expected, 
‘¢ In confequence of this commencement 
of hoftilities by his Prtfiian Majefty, the 
King of Sweden has ordered a general em- 
bargo to be laid upon all the Pruffian veffels 
in the ports of Sweden. 
“© The Magiftrates and Burgers of this 
place, as a teftimony of their joy for his Mae 
yefty’s happy return to Pomerania, have given 
200 rix-doilars to the Orphan Houfe at Stral- 
fund, and rco to the Foundling of this place, 
upon which his Majefty has been pleafed to 
exprefs his gracious fatisfattion.”*~ ~ 
HOLLAND, 
A change is expected to take place in 
the government of this degraded country. 
_ M. Schimmelpennick, the Grand Penfion- 
Count - 
ary, has loft his fight, and it is faid the 
othce of Stadtholdcr will be revived in the 
perfon of Louis Bonaparte, called in Frenca 
Prince Louis. 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
The following ftate Paper contains fo 
able and corre an expofition of the fitea- 
tion and views of feveral leading Powers 
in Europe, that it fuperfedes the neceflity 
of giving place to unauthenticated details, 
and newipaper {peculations. 
Declaration of the Elefor of Hanover againft 
Pruffiae 
«The Court of Prutlia has avowed thofe 
hoftile deligus, which fhe thought to conceal 
by her friendiy profeffions. 
The Note Verbale, delivered on the 4th of 
April, by the Pruffian Envoy, Baron Jacobi 
Kloet, tothe Britith miniftry, announces that 
‘the Eleétorate of Hanover has been taken 
poifeftion of, and that the ports of the Ger- 
man fea, and of Lubeck, have been clofed 
againft the Britifh flag. 
This declaration gives the lie to all thofe 
affurances by which the Cabinet of Berlin 
has’ hitherto endeavoured to cloak its pro-. 
ceedings: to which it moreover adds the pre- 
tenfion that his Pruffian Majefty bas acquir- 
ed, by his tyfem of policy, claims to the 
gratitude of ail the Northern Powers. ~ 
Thus actually difpoffefled of the ancient 
inheritance of my family, and infulted in my 
rights as a fovereign, 1 have ordered thote 
meafures to be taken which the honour of 
my crown requires: but I ftiJl owe it to my- 
felf, to Europe, and'to my fubjects, to make 
a public declaration of my fentiments, as 
Elector of Brunfwick-Lunenburgh, upon the 
unjut olurpation of my German poffefiions. 
ft is not neceflary to prove how contrary 
this act is to the rights.uf nations, or to the 
laws of the German empire. Their infrac-, 
tion is too evident to be required to be 
proved. It is the moft facred principles of 
good faith, of honour, and in faét of all the 
obligations upon which the reciprocal fatety 
of ditterent ftates among themilelves, and of 
each civil fociety in itfelf, repofe, which are 
trodden under foot in fuch a manner, that 
the world would have difficulty in believing 
it, it J did not caufe the facts to be laid be- 
tore them, which are authenticated in the 
narrative which I have ordered to be pre- 
pared. 
‘he proceedings of the court of Berlin, 
when the Eleétorate was occupied by its 
troops in 1801—its conduct far from being. 
friendly durimg the negociation for the in- 
demnities which followed the Peace of Lune- 
ville—the declaration which it made when 
France prepared to invade ihe Electorate— 
aud, 
