1804. ] State of Public Affairs 
can tend to promote the intereft or gratifi- 
cation (that word really looks a little like 
a fneer) of his Imperial Majelty,”’ it 
goes on to declare that, ‘in quality of 
guarantee of the conftitution of the em- 
pire, and alfoas a ftate of the empire, his 
Majelty cannot but confider the object of 
this notice as infeparably connected with 
the very being of the German-empire ; 
and that it is not to be laid before the 
Diet merely as a notification, but as a 
fubject of deiiberation, in the difcuffion 
of which all the members of the Diet may 
exprels their. opinion, as authorized by the 
confiitution.’” 
This f{piited declaration, no doubt, 
will be fruitle(fS in the Diet ; but fuch 
fteady, jult, and henourable condu&, is 
hever without fruit to pofterity.. And 
we can but view the King of Sweden as 
worthy, by this condu@, of the great 
name which has been tran{mitted to him 
by his illuitrious anceftors. 
Meanwhile, this and other notes of a 
fimilar tone, have ftirred up the {pleen of 
the Moniteur againft the King of Sweden. 
One of its late numbers contains an article 
the moft ftudioufly infulting to his Majefty, 
in which he is called—** an inconfiderate 
young man, dictating violent notes as he 
rides polt, ignorant of the ftate of Europe, 
of his own dominions, and of every thing 
he ought to know.’ Is there a man that 
refpects the neceffary decencies of life, 
who requires a word of comment on this? 
But befide the King of Sweden’s gene- 
rous oppolition to an oppreffive govern- 
ment, the Moziteur has another caufe of 
quarrel with him: he has offered a refuge 
and proteétion, in his dominions, to the 
unfortunate Louis XVIII. Onthe borders 
of the Baltic, in the province of Smal- 
land, is the town of Calmar, with a 
caftle; and in this place, the King of 
Sweden has invited Louis and his family 
to take up their refidence. It is faid, they 
are nov on their read to this afylum. 
Monfieur (the Count D’ Artois) has taken 
his departure from England to the fame 
place ; but report varies much, as to the 
particular objet of this vifit to his 
brother. 
; FRANCE. 
The enemy’s flotillas have been even 
more than ulually active of late; all the 
veflels that were in Flufhing, Oflend, and 
Dunkirk, have got out of thofe ports, and 
gained Calais ; which is now faid to con- 
tain more than three hundred gun boats 
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and cutters. All thefe, it is fuppofed, 
will attempt to proceed to Boulogne, as 
Calais is more open, and liable to be bom- 
barded. Meantime, the number of our 
blockading fhips, and of fhips of war on 
our own coaft, are daily increafing. 
Bonaparte was at Boulogne on his 
birth-day. Seated on a throne which be- 
longed to one of the Kings of France, of 
the firft race, furrounded by his guards, 
and high ofcers of ftate, in the open air, 
his army in fight, with almoft unexampled 
pomp, he diftributed the infignia of the 
Eagle to the Legion of Honour. After vi- 
fiting various other places, he proceeded 
to Aix-la-Chapelle, where feveral princes 
of Germany, are faid to have paid their 
refpecis to him m perfon. Count Co» 
bentzel was here received and acknow- 
ledged, as ambaffador from the Emperar 
of the Romans and of Aufiria, to the Em- 
peror of the French. ) 
The French papers report, that he will 
vifit Mentz 3 after which, he will return 
to Paris, without again vifiting the coaft, 
which was his firft plan. 
The Ruffian ambaflader is faid to have 
quitted Paris; and the Swedith ambafla- 
dor to have received orders to leave that 
city in fix days. This latter news is 
highly probable. What we have faid re- 
fpe&ing the King of Sweden will thew the 
difpofition of that monarch; and the mili- 
tary preparations of Ruffia evince the tem- 
per of Alexander. The Ruffian troops in 
the Jonian Hlands, are faid already to 
amount to 35,002 men; im the neigh- 
bourhood of Cherfon, are as many more ; 
and 30,000 men are encamped on the 
Dniefter; befides, a large body in the 
neighbourhood of Peterfburgh. ‘To thefe 
ftatements, it is to he adced, that it is 
ftrongly reported here, that Lord G. Levi- 
fon Gower, will foon depart as ambaflador 
from this Court to Peterfburgh. 
The footing which Ruffia has got in 
the republic of the Seven Tflands, 1s cer- 
tainly matter of great uneafinefs, both at 
Paris and Vienna. That Republic was 
erected, under the guarantee of France, 
Auftria, the Porte, and Ruffia, and re- 
cognized in the treaty of Amiens. 
‘¢ IF it appears, fays the Moniteur, that 
this republic is incapable ef governing it- 
felf, Ruffia goes out of her pofition, in-at= 
tempting to govern them, as nature has ~ 
defizned them for Aujiria or the Porte ; 
unle{s the project of Catherine, which was 
abandoned, in confequence of the French. 
Mma reyos 
in September, 1804. 
