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" permit a peevish disgust at our prosperity to blind you to
•tt at organized and systematic encroachment, which is
" labouring to subvert your rights, liberties, and inde-
• pendence, as nations and as men. Short-sighted, indeed,
164' must be the reigning families which still remain, if they
" longer permit themselves to hope that their thrones may
4, be etained without the most unequivocal resolution to
" defend them. Still more deceived must be the people,
who imagine a change of dynasty is all they have to ap-
4, prehend, and amuse themselves with the idea, that it is
a' a mere Fassion foi King-making which induces their
44 enslaver to interest himself in their concerns. Let us
44 do him the justice to acknowledge, that his designs,
44 whatever they contain of the unjust, have but little of
" the frivolous. The principle of his federal system is the
pe mment dominion of France, and the complete sub-
" jection of all other nations and languages within his
44 reach. His Kings will be mere satraps, creatures of his
" will, and removeable at his pleasure.. The expences of
" Sovereignty, and the burthen of tribute, will be all the
" share of the people in their own affairs. Petty Magis-
-46 trates, and inferior Officers, they may indeed become,
" but Frenchmen will be their rulers—Frenchmen will lead
64 their armies—Frenchmen will reap the fruit of all their
‘4 energies—and the unspeakable arrogance of that domi-
" neering nation will be encountered through all the rami-
" fications of society, public and domestic.
44 We, appeal, therefore to the scenes passing before your
" eyes, as to facts which cannot be controverted; we call
" upon you to wake from the slumber of apathy, and the
tl:rpllr Of fear to a resistance proportionate to the destruc-
-46 Lion which assails you. Do not imagine that, untaught by
44 experience, we are again anxious to subsidise you into the
gg employment of a spiritless body of troops, officered by
44 Generals with heads full of the events of the seven years
44 war ? No, if you cannot convey to your population some
" of that noble principle which animates men to die for their
" country and countrymen, and to an abhorrence of foreign
44 your great men cannot resolve to share in the
" glory and the danger with the mass of the people—above
" all, if you do not resolve to sacrifice all the petty jea-
" lousics, factions, and party views of less eventful times,
" and trust talent alone with the management of your affairs,
" you may 4as well receive at once your conqueror, and
44 your master. But if, on the contrary, this hatred of
44 treachery, of tyranny, and oppression, can be made to
" act upon the common mind and common feeling, and to
" call the energies of your respective countries into
" anion, we promise you all the aid and co-operation of
" our great resources; to make your cause our own ; to
44 abide by you in danger; to shed our blood freely in your
defence; and, unbiassed by any narrow views of parti-
" cular advantage, to look only to the absolute good which
44 must result to ourselves, our immediate posterity, and
" the remotest after-times from a successful opposition, to
" the most daring plan of universal dominion which inso-
" solence, ferocity, and talent, ever attempted to impose
I" on the sons of men."

We will not contend for the form of our address, but if
we mean again to proffer assistaue to the Continent, are
net these the terms upon which it should be given, and
the spirit with which it should be offered ?

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
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?mom TER ?BENCH, GERM4N, AND lI4MHURGiIy PAPERS.

FItANCE.

PA RIR, JUNE Moniteur of to-day contains the fol-
lowing article, dated Datazic, Ma, 22:--
" Sweden presents an extraordinary spectacle. Those Swedes
ho at the bezinning of the 18th century fought with such suc-
cess against the Russian.i, and were constantly conquerors even
the tnogt unequal conflicts, are now beaten every where, not
.ly by an equal, but even by an inferior force. Swedish Fin-
iand, full of lakes, defiles, and strong positions, has been con-
quered in the midst of winter; and in all engagelacati the Ruse

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

JULY 3.

sums, though sometimes of inferior force, were the victors.
Idle and envious politicians have censured the march of General
Buxbovden, and been disposed to reproach him for his opera..
tions. It is, nevertheless, certain, that that General has ac-
quired great reputation by the conquest of a province se impor.
tant to Russia, that she will probably never resign it. sae.
dish Finland is a very beautiful country. They would err who
should compare it with Russian Finland. It contains several
towns of from twelve to fourteen thousand inhabitants. Its po.
pulation, which is nearly doubled within twenty years, row.
prises a million inhabitants.
" The fortress of Sweaborg, which had a garrison of 7000
men, and 150 gun-sloops, and was provisioned for eight months,
has surrendered itself, and its fine flotilla, before even the
trenches were opened.
" The Island of Gothland, so important from its geographi.
cal position, has also been conquered. Here, as well as in Fin.
land, the inhabitants received the Russians with joy. In Nor-
way too, the Swedes have every where been beaten. In the
whole kingdom there are murmurs. The politics of the Cabinet
are complained of. In these unfortunate events, the people he.
hold the consequence of the loss of their privileges and the Con-
stitution. The war has cost Sweden already more than 15,000
men, killed or taken prisoners.
" The political consequences of the union of Finland with
Russia are so important, that this event alone would immorta-
lize a Government. The acquisition of a province of a million
inhabitants, forty leagues removed from the metropolis, the
conquest of a hundred leagues of coast on the same sea which
washes the walls of St. Petersburgh, and of a country which can
furnish good and numerous sailors, is a rich source, not of secu-
rity only, but of prosperity. What, in future, w ill Sweden he,
when Stockholm will be commanded by Russians from the other
side of the Gulph of Bothnia—when from the turrets of their
palaces, the Kings of Sweden can see the Russian flags, and in
every war the first cannon will be fired under the walls of the
capital ? Do we say capital ? It will soon cc..se to be so. The
Kings of Sweden will not choose to inhabit a frontier town, in
which the inhabitants may lie down Swedes and rise Russians.
Gustavus the Fourth does not love Stockholm, and will not
much regret abandoning it. Kings and unfortunate nations have
sunk in extraordinary conflicts. Who could believe that a sin-
gle battle would annihilate the monarchy of Frederick, and a
few marches vanquish the Austrian army ? In these treat events,
calculations have been defeated by happier calculations."
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♦CCESSION OF JOSEPH BONAPARTE 10 THE THRONE
OF SPAIN.

JUNE 17.—The Bayonne Gazette of the 13th of June contains
the following particulars :
" His Majesty King Joseph Napoleon, nrrived on the 7th in-
stant, at eight o'clock, at Pau. As soon as the Emperor w•as
informed of it, he repaired from the Castle of Marrac, to meet
his Serene Brother. His Majesty met the King two miles from
Bayonne, and brought him in his carriage to Mame, where he
passed the evening. Shortly afterwards, thepep-station of the
Grandees of Spain, with the Duke del Infautado at their head,
had the honour of being presented to King Joseph Napoleon.
The President of the Deputation made the following speech to
the King :
" SIRE,—We feel the most lively joy in presenting ourselves
before your Majesty. The presence of your Majesty is neces-
sary to the re-establishment of onr country. The Grandees of
Spain have at all times distinguished themselves by their fidelity
towards their Sovereigns. Your Majesty shall meet with the
same integrity and the same fidelity towards your person. 11ay
your Majesty be pleased to accept our homage with the same
benignity of which you have given so many testimonies to )our
subjects of the kingdom of Naples."

To this his Majesty answered :
" That he should devote himself altogether to the Government
of Spain ; that all his endeavours should be employed to bring
order into the finances, and re-organize the naval and military
force ; that Spain might rely upon the preservation of her rights;
that he would rule only by virtue of the laws; and finally, that
the Gtandees•of Spain might be assured of his especial protec-
tion."
Messieurs Urquijo and Cevallos were then admitted to an au-
dience with his Majesty, who conferred with them a considera-
ble time concerning the affairs of the kingdom.
Several other Deputations were afterwards presented. 7o
the Council of the Indies he said, that he should consider Ame-
rica as an integral part of Spai ; and not the Deputation of tht•