The National Register.
London, England, 1813-02-28 00:00:00

STATE PAPERS.

DISMISSAL OF THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR FROM SWEDEN.
Copy of a Letter from M. De Cobre, Charge d'Alaires pom his Majesty
vie Emperor (y. the French, King of Italy, •t the,Cours of Stockholm,
to his Excellency the Baron d'F.ngerstrons, Chief Minister of State to
his Strilliah Majesty, dated Stockholm; December 21, 1812.
The undersigned Charge d'Affaires of his Majesty the emperor of
thc French, King of Italy, has received the official nete, which his
Excellency M. the Baron d'Engerstrorn addressed tb him yesterday,
the `lntlt of December, in which it is stated in substance—
'"1'11.4 his Swedish Majesty having in vain awaited an explanation
relative to the entrance of the French into Pomerania, relative to the
removal of the King's Officers to Magdeburg, and the capture of
ships In French cruizers, his Majesty has ordered has Mi-
nister of. State and of Foreign Affairs, to declare to the undersigned,
that his presence at Stockholm being altogether useless, his Majesty
desires that the undersigned shall" quit Sweden as soon as possible,
d that he should, at the same time, be furnished with the pass.
pot ts necessary for his voyage."
• The undersigned conceives it unnecessary to dwell upon the impu-
tation contained in the said official note, insinuating that his Majesty
the Emperor and King had acted contrary to the faith of treaties.
• It would be easy for the undersigned to refute this charge by recalling
the cot divons of the Treaty concluded at Paris on the 6th of January;
and proving by filets that Sweden has t of fulfilled in any one point tile
obligations imposed by her engagements in that inArinnent, although
France had shewn the most zealous desire to restore to her that same
Pomerania which had been conquered by the Impclial and Royal arms
in the last war.
The undersigned has to observe, that. it has never, either verbally
or by writing, been notified to him, that his diplomatic relations
would be suspended, until he hael- given a categorical answer. to the
explanations demanded of him by the Swedish Ministry. His Excel-
lency, the Minister of Stare, and of Foreign Affairs, in his letter of
the 7th of September 'last, addressed to the Charge d'Affaires of
France,,limits himself to demanding of the undersigned, " 1 Y hethet
be is in Sweden as the agent of a friendly or hostile Power,"--de-
daring at the same time to the undersigned, that his continuance in
the States of his Swedish Majesty depends on the answer which he
shall find himself prepared to give to this question.
With respect to the principal object of.the official note from his
Excellency the Minister of State and of Foreign Affairs, the under-
signed will not lose a moment to bring it under the cognizance of hi's
Court : but it depends not upon him to obey the desire of his Swedish
Majesty. On•zhe contrary, it is his duty to declare, that he will
never coment to abandon the post which the Emperor and King, his
august nosier, has designed to confide t') b.iforo he shall leave
obtained Lis imperial and Royal Majesty's orders to that ctiect•
But if his wedish Majesty, in virtue of his. Sovereign tights, will
cause it to be signified to the undersigned, officially and in writing,
that he will no longer permit his residence in Sweden, the uncter-