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A v. VI.

SIR—I geld you, in doe course, copies of the tars Nate
which I caused to be transmitted on the atth September. sal
16th November, to the Swedish AmbassaJor, as well saki
reply to the first. Herewith I transmit to you the sae
which he addremed to me ou the nth of January, also the
second. Ton will sec, Sir, that the contents of his Note le DO
ways answers the immediate deu•urds which our Master has
made to engage the King of Sweden to take measmars,
commie with the three other Northern roam, to sicked
the Baltic v) against the attempts of England ; His Imps,
rial Majt sty has, therefore, detei 'flitted to make a Dee...ra-
tion, in order to assure himself of the real disposition ut ba
neighbour, the King of Sweden ; you will receive, herewith,
a Copy of this Declaration ; I will not mud it to Hansa de
Stedingh natal some days after the departure of ibis Courier.
In the mom time I will confidentially snake it knou,
to M. Le Baton de Biome ; you will also commuoirate it :4
the Minister of His Danish Majesty., aad also the last Note of
the Swedish Ambassador. Yoe will observe, ou this own.: a,
to M. Lc Count de Bermtorff, that the Emperor will tits
every measure in hie power eventually to dereod Deomark
and to serve her cause. His Imperial Majesty reit% in the
fine tripe, that this Monarch will, on his past, press the
King of Sweden to unite with them, sad If be Mil/ not, that
he w ill take part openly nailed him; that be will pumas, wit►
activity, the preparations for war, proceed without loss of
time in all the measures reeemary, relative to it, and that
he will cordially joie all his efforts to those of Russia. (to)
I have the honour tube, with distinguished consiberatien,
Sir, your very humble, and very obedient servant,
The Count NICOLAS DE ROMANYOFF.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 5, Igoe.
To Mr. Da Listakeuitseb, Copeahageo.

(t) The whole of ibis i• the excess of insolence. Ham
CAndklilt may hays been impatieat of inactivity for *single
romment, at a crisis or) dantrrous to his flaunter It is false
that he has either hese ill-treated or discontented. ‘' He is
no subject of the King. since he is a native of Swedish fir
land." What an *stemmas, even before the war ! "To gain
him over will be an important acquisition : dotter his ambi-
tion"—(such is the language). You, flpringporten, Kase-
ring, Harelstrom--traitors of every description, now sptak.
Wee it ever in the power of the Emperor to alleviate year
remorse by offices and emoluments' Cosh' thi se pro yet
you from the contempt and execration of every honest sees,
even in Russia itself'

(r) It is this vary esperiencc that justifies the measures of
the king with regard to M. Aloptus.

(v) lu all these places the guarantee of the Baltic has
sense, unless it means to secure Croostadt awl Revel Gam
the foto of Copeuhagen. Russia, the Ally of England, is
alone to have the yrivileKe of summoning fleets into the Bohr,
without • word being said of closing the pump ; bat tio
sooner does she (laurel with England, than she cries eat for
help to Am it.

(so) All that has been dont, the Danis& Monarchy hit
pressed, wormaccol, 4:r &c. Thus are Om Monorshies
which possess se iamb frankness.

THE BRITISH PRE SS.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY. Aram so.

We stated, yesterday, that the dispatches found
upon the Russian Courier, who was *nested on
the 7th ult. an the Swedish territories, us he was
coining from St. Petersburgh, and which were in-
tended for NI. ALOPEUS, the Rtu.sian Minister at
Stockholm, have been submitted by the
of Swersim to his people, in the form of •
pamphlet, published at Stockholm, with notes and
comments, explanatory of each dispatch, aneexelL
We insert, this day, the first part of these interest-
ing Papers, and will give the remelts ter to-mor-
row. The King of SWEDEN relies u: en the mat•
ter disclosed in this intercepted correspm.deoce, les
a complete justification of his arrest of the ;..issim
Minister A LOPCIII. at Stockholm, on the 2d of last
innuitii. As these Papers were not, however, inter-
cepted until the 7th, they could .not hove heel
the motives to that measure, and consZniwatly ti. 4
aeoessity of the case must have some other fusia
anion. The Swedish Gorenmstent seem perfectly

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aware of this objection, and ateordiugly these Vir
pe • are referred to, more as confirmation of the
propriety of the arrest, than as the ground of
that extraordinary proceeding. The preface to the
Pamphlet states, that the Court of Stockholm consi-
dered M. A LOPEUS as deprived of his public quality
by the insidious aggression of his Court; as a dan-
gerous enemy, by the revolutionary principles with
which that aggression was accompanied ; and as a
hostage for the Swedish Ambassador, whose liberty
bad in all probability been violated. These are
the gmunils stated for the arrest, and upon them
it mush stand or fall. The two first certainly ap-
pear very good add slifficient cause for ordering the
Russian Minister immediately to quit the king-
dom. After such proceedings on the part of the
Russia:► Governin •at , the King of SWEDEN would
be perfectly right in rending away its Ambassador,
bag and baggage. If the liberty of the Swedish
-Minister, at St. Petersburgh, was violated, which
is the third cause &reigned, the arrest of
Atorcus would be only au actsof mere retaliation,
and, as such, perfectly justifiable; but there was no
evidence of any violeoce being done to the person of
the Swedi,h Minister at Petersburgh. There was
eoly a suspicion, arising out of the circumstance,
that no couriers o'er dispatches had been recently re-
eeived from him. ALOPKUS, we admit, stands con-
victed by this correspowlence of having abused the
sacred character w;th which he was clothed by the
law of nations. Ile appears a spy of the mast infa-
mous class—"x the same reason that blasphemy is
mere disgusting in a Minister of. Religion than it
would be in an ordinary person ; but we fear that
the Ambassadors of BONAPARTIand his Allies have
been too often iatended as the toast-courieri of
their Generals—that they are sent to spy the In.
kedoievar of the land, a►d to prepare the way far
aggression, instead ist enitivating the mom of
peace. We are afraid that if we were Om read the
private instructions of France to her Ministers at
Foreign Courts, that there is not a nation which she
has attacked since the commencement of the Re.
volution, that would not have as great cause of
complaint as the King of SWILDIN irides case of
M. Atoreus.

The Brilliant, Maammix, arrived ea Friday night
at Greenock, from Honduras, in seven weeks. On
the 27th alt. of the Capes of Virginia, she
'poke the Eerriles frigate, which had cause out
of the Chesapeake, where the Stairs was bull
lying. The Remake had accompanied Sir .4b
Doeswoses to the West ladies. where she
left bim, and was sent in quest of the Rochefort
aqvadten; bat. getting us ii.telligenes in the
Cliele.wake. intended running acre., to the hunks
of Newiamidland, and t tea fir •
Lieutimmit who boarded tel.] Criitaiii Moat

sum, that inaUcrs bull rem ined undecided in

Ann•rica, sod that two of the letding Me ..!,a of
rodg;it hi 1;1 ; our war
killed; the survive:a I, LAMPILLL. They
would not permit the frigate to water.

We have received the Paris .Vanitetzr to the 32d
last, from which we lone mode some extracts. I.
otstei, that the arrest of M. Ai LOPIUS, the Ril=-
wan Minister at the Swedish Court, has excited
toe indignation of the whole world, as an act s'
bfirbarity unprecedented muting civilised nnbon-
--Tin: vile intrigues of M. ALopeus, now fully
exposed in the intercepted corres,soudense, wiil se-
coma% the the raving of the Mositeur.

The Gristles of Hayti, to the let of March,
tomtits *a account of another action, bi which Pa-
tina's force was again defeated with peat loa.,
the tie d of battle having been left covered with
their dead.

The Leopard, of so guns, Ca.itain H: tt'ttaEYs,
is appoioterl corn oy for the oiltward-hound F.a.t
Indio beet, now collecting at Poruwwouth. It is
understood that the fleet will he /lispstelae:l alma
the end of the ea suing week. The names and de-
stinatidsis of the clips co.upoliug tiiis fleet are as
follow

The La,l St. Vincent and lintletart, for Antobay ; La,ly
lane Dend,u, Harriet, sad Indus, tor Mattras and Betign*. ;
Dh►cbe/+af Gordon, sad Send, tor Cerios and Bengal.
The hulas passed throui.s the Dawes, yester-
day. fur Purtsinouth.The •
Efit4, Saarer.go, for London, was taken
off St. Domingo by a French privateer ; the
Charles, Tunnsut.t.; Johann!. —; and thr
Ellen. —. from Li►erpnol for St. Domingo. were
all Well on the .30th ult. tat. 41.30. N. long. 14. W.
The Duc LEA goo vi.cmg Is about to proceed to
the Comment by the A% n 1 flottenhurgh. A fri-
pee is to be appropriated for the reception of his
11. .rhtiess.

4'hi. Cit..' of Wrrce•ter has agreed to a Petition
to Kir, r•nent in fivour of the Bill to restrict Re-
verAio 113'y Grants.

The Itheit lion. rarl POULCTT has presented
PsT.tjor Deems. of tbe ,2d Somerset, with a cons-
ul ••nm to act us Deputy-Lieutenant in the sam'•
co,iotv.

The Ma4istrates for Rutland:Mire have ordered'.
new to bar hu It nu the west ii;•le of the taind
svli.trf, at the estimated expense of 7.1‘,.)1-
rile Right Hon. the Earl of STAMFORD and
ARPIN °rum, a;:reeably to his aereustoined he-
tetieence, has directed, that about ..:50 shirts alai
al.ifts he distributed SODOM: the oble.t aril /no-,
istriona poor iu the rwiloihourhood of Steward's.
Lay lireedwa, Leicestershire.