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PROM THE Drmrr PAPERS.

S FATE PAPER.
NOTE TIANSSUTTED SY ORDER OF ins swErisa
MAJESTY To M. CAILLAILD, TOE IRENCII EN A itQL-
D'AFFAURES AT Sit-KiteloEN', sveT. 7,160 k.
" His Majesty the Ki:”4 of Sweden has. received
a t:port of the improp.tr, toe insolent, and the
observations w!to. h I\llr.:ieur Napoleon Bo-
naparte has allowed to he insert,d in his Monitear of
the 14th of August, under the article Ratisbon.
" The tone, the style, and even the subjed of this
article, are all of so extraordinary a n note, that
His Majestyhas been yet hardly able to comprehend
the object of such an .nft of political evravag nice.
If it has been done in the hope of misleading the
public as to the con.tua of His MAjesty, ;it ap-
pear from the uncommon p..ins that :,re taken to
draw a inc of separation between His Majesty and
his sutjeNs, let the world understand, that any in-
stigation to that eTtsft never could have been less
likely to succeed than at this moment, or than it al-
ways will. with a people whose intere- ti are bound
up with these of a sovereign, uto 11.i5 never sepa-
rated his pi-asperity from theil.s, and wii.) never feels
NO happy as when he contributes to the glory and
to the happiness of his subjects.

" As His Mzjesty cannot, consistent with his
own dignity, or the honour of his crown, permit
any official intercryirse, after such an insult, he has
ordered me, Sir, to communicate to you, that, from
this dAy, all diplomaric intercourse of every kind,
both private and public, is imm-diately to cease
between the French Legation at Stockholm, and His
Majesty's Government.
" As a sentence in the article above-mentioned
seems to imply that the French Government is dis-
posed to a that the continuance of the com-
mercial irtercourse between Sweden and Frarce
would be attended with some advantages, His Ma-
jesty, on his part, is willing to permit the came,
from those sentiments of esteem which he has 4i.
ways entertained for the French People ; sentiments
which he has inherited irom his ancestors, and
which owe their origin color happier times.
(Signed) " I'. D. L•'HRENHCttt"

STOCKHOLM, SIPT. 11.

. _
The following document from our Court Chan-
cellor appeared here on the ith inst.
" His Majesty the King has been pleased to in-
form me, by his gracious letter of the 26th of
August, that for a long time the prevalent tone of
most French Journals and Daily Papers has been
marked by a want at due respell for Kings and
Princes, and for every lawful Government ; that
this insolence, so worthy of chasti,ement, has conti-
nued to increase, and the cosrequences thereof have
lately appeared in one of the newspapers most gene-
rally known, which has dared to insert expressions
attacking the King's exalted person, and, conse-
quently, the dignity of the EmpO-.! ; and as this
cannot be pasted over without animadverdion, His
Majesty has been pleased to ordtr
" 1. That from the hour when this notifeatien is mad,
public, the impormond into the :Swedish Empire, and ere
province. belonging thereto, of French s.oirrtals, Weakly
Magazines, and lastly P.ipvis, is strictly prohibited; and ti.ai
no exception can be granted Of demanded. •
2. That all importations of Books and Writings, which
may be pri.-,red in France in future, is likewise proh kited
those, however, which have alr.ady appeared, are not in.
elected, p•ovide4 their contents be net contrary to the teen a.
twit .-tf the ea...Manus %till in ftir,r ; hut, with -.aspect w Fr-net
looks, which may Se puoliebed in Tutor.•, rAseeptions may he
admitted, it all humble request be Maie lot the itultose
through the •.fft-e of the Kings Curt of Chancery.
a In consequence whereof, I am required to put--
Esti this gracing cnmmanet ant ordinance of His
Majesty the King, that all people racy conform
themselves thereto.

(Es Oifieio ) "C B. IThET.
" Stetlelloirsa, For. 7, 1804. " A. D. !JUNIN/EL"

N 4 VAL INTELLIGENCE.

nstiwicit, SEPT. 11.
The dra'avd packet, Capt Hammond, arrived
last night wtth the Mails from liusum, and the
tidy Fmnrc,-, Captain Flyn, came in this morning
from the s.,me place.
We have braid nothing farther of the Evrt If tri-
color packet, ir. which Monsieur sailed for Gotten
burg; but it is supposed that Capt. Thomson Hill
ran for the Swedish coast.

PORIS,IOI ril, SEPT. Vt.
Arrived the lairds; Swain, from London, bound
to the South Seas ; and the gatliot Wets. —.
bound to llourdJauz, detained by His Majesty's
sloop 'toiler.
Soiled the Ashe,,. Weitards, for the South &air
sod the Ardent 'l'ramport, for Cork. Wind E.N.E.

raLisocwit, SCPT. 45.
Sailed the Prinecii Lb Packet. Capt. Kidd,
with a Mail fur Jamaica. Wilk! N. E.

stvT. 27.
Sailed the Ro.itte armed-ship. with thirteen sail of
vessels under conessy for the Baltic : bin the wind
being foul, they bare brought up a few miles from
the Norc. Wind. Easterly.

?7.

Early this morn:tr. the Danish ketc4Rou'et.-
.1' Copt. N.soonelonoo, laden with stock fish,
trrm Bergen, bound too Naples. Tan nn the Gondwin
Sands, and was wrecked. The Master and crew
were saved by the as .stance the Dcal b •

&main in the Dovims the ships as per list
• Last night the Right Hon. William Pitt arrived
tr Wainer Carle. and set off' this morning for
Dover. Wind N. F.. blows hard.

PO LTCII.
scw-cs net' r.
Yesterday the mum calling himself H. Petal,
but t cal n-inse is Hriny l'osfect. apprehended
on a charge of having defrauded the Earl of Cla-
rendon of various sums of money, was brought be-
itite Mr. 13(1sta, for re-exanunation, when his
Lordship attenued, and stated the nature of the
wholatransatlian.

It appeared, from his Lordship's account, that on
the 6th of July! last he received a letter sigr.ed H.
Grant, p irporting to come from a Mrs. Grant, who
represented herself to he the daughter of a medical
man of great respedability and property at Jamaica,
where, at the instigation of her parents, she had
been married to a young man of the name of Grant,
who, she stated, came there as surgeon of one of
His Majesty's ships; that her father have him tOOOl.
as a marriage portion, and it was agreed he should
settle in Jamaica; but, pretending his friends resided
in Scotland, he persuaded her to quit her native
home, which her friends consented to, and they
came to England, with their two children ; but that,
instead of her husnand proceeding to Scotland, he
remai. ed in London, and, plunging into every dissi-
pation, soon expended the whole of their property,
and, from his excesses, threw himself into a decline,
which cart ied him off in a few months, leaving her
totally destitute of support, with two children, and
in hourly expritation of bringing a third into the
world.

His Lords!:ip immediately answered her letter,
but wishel to know who the Lady was that had
a lilted her to apply to him; she ha ving mentioned
in heir letter that she had been induced to it from
the high charaaer she had received of his Lordship,
from a lady whom she had met by chance, and who
had some knowledge of her family in Jamaica, but
who, being unknown to his Lordship, did not wish
her name to be mentioned; a letter was then re-
ceived by his Lorddlip, appearing to come from a
Mrs. Smith; the lady alluded to, who stated herself
to be the wife of an officer, well-kunswa in the West
Indies, and spske of Mrs. Grant in the highest
terms, at the same time.pointing out her distresses,
aid which induced his Lordship to send the suppos-
ed Mrs. Grain fire guineas, the receipt Of which
was acknowledged by letter in the most grateful
terms. His Lordihip then sent a further supply of
money, after which he received several letters,
signed H. Paul,—in these letters lien sufferings trout
child-birth, and her distresses, were painted i h the
most lively colours, and which always had the de-
sired effes of obtaining Money, &c.
His Lordship expressing a desire tc know the
names of the medical persons who atte ded her;
motives of delicacy as to her illness were urged sy
ner advocate, Mr. Paul, for declining to give that
ca isfaetion, but which were urged as at the express
d-sire of Mrs. Grant; her lodgings *ere also kept
secret. she not heiog willing, as he said, to expose
her wretchedness. Repeated promises were made of
her having an interview with his Lordship to
thank him for his beneficence, and to cons ince
him of the existence of such an objeet, but these
were also broken under the plea of illness. The
Prisoner, in the charader of Mr. Paul, met his
Lordship by appointment, on the Bth of August
la t, at the Bell Inn at Kilburn, where he received
21. as a reimbursement for money he pretended to
have expended for Mrs. Grant by his Lordship's
den e. The correspondence then went on again,
boas by Mr. Paul and the suppOsed Mrs. Grant,
who was said to b recovering from her dmiereus
ill:e.s ; the letters for Mr. Paul and Mrs. Grant
were always requested to be sent, either direufted
to post- utfices or coffee-houses, and the liYsonet
generally mud to meet the postman in the street,
and get the letters, without applying for them at
the places direCted. To carry on the hirce. Mts.
Grant informed his Lordship of the arrival of
some of her relations from Jamaica, in search of
her, and of the ill treatment she received from an
old Argus of an aunt ; as some excuse for her
still imploring pecuniary assistance, in her last
letter she acqnaints him of the death of her eminhle
jilted Mr. Paul, at Bristol, and takes leave of
his Lordship in rather an angry way, in conse-
quence of his Lordship's declining to give any fur-
ther relief, unless fully satisfied of the fa& Here
the matter rested for a short time, and his Lordship
heard no more of Mrs. Grant or Mr. Paul, till a letter
was sent to him, signed " Daniel Bennet," begging
assistance, as a distressed Clergyman, and which he
answered ; but the similitude of style and writing
struck his Lordship with an idea, that it came from
his old ft iend, Mr. Paul; and it being requested
that the answer should be left at the Post Office,
at Brickbat. his Lordship called there a few days
after, in his way to Northamptonshire. and found
his own letter lying there, and that a letter had been
ieceive3 that morning. by the Postmaster, desiring
ashy letter &tette! to the Rev. D. !Sennett might
' be forwarded to him at Seagoe's Coffee-house, I.on-
don. This confirmed the snspleion, and ultimately
led to the detedion of the Prisoner, who lodged at
hdramiton, and where the whole of his Lordship's
letter* ti, him an.l ?Ars. Grant were found, together
with various letters, papers, and memorandum
bool.s, which tended to prove, that the prisoner has
long carried on this species of depredation, under
vacuous assumed names and eharaaers. In one
book was a list of monies he had received for sonic
years past. with a list of the donors' names; art
whom were, the Duchess of Beaufort, Lord Wit--
loughby de Broke, Lady Scarsdale, Lord Lyttleton.
l,.ady Howard, Lady Mary Duncan, Bishops of
London, Salisbury, arid Duman], Earls Kingston
a:ud Radnor, Lord C. Spencer, Lord De Dunstan.
vine, lien. Mrs. Fox, Lady Ford, Lady T. Long,
Admiral Douglas, Dr. Latham, Mr. Barclay, Mr.
Tolmache, Mr. Sewell, Sir Walter Farquhar, Mr.
Wage-, &c.
The Prisoner passed himself to Lord Clarendon
as a Clergyman:, which he Never was. His letters,
in general, ate couched in very good language,
and in most of them be has introduced some ap-
posite Latin quotations: be is about sti years of age,
and of respedable appearance; he was the son of
a Clergyman in Leicestershire, and was formerly a
Lieutenant in the ti9th regiment of foot; has been
twice married, and had considerable property with
each wife, the latter of whom is now living. At
this examinatino, by the advice of Mr. Huatpur.cys,
his Solicitor, he declined making any reply to the
charges adduced a;,ustinst him. He was remanded
for further eaamioatieo on Tuesday week.

SIRTH.

On the ??4 init. in Hans Place, the I.ady of A Imiral 011140*
bell, of the P,tugue+e Navy, • d.ntthter, ara happy
In add, that both atuthvr and &teener are to ft pfulaisiog way.