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Losibon,
SLTSD %Y, NIIIICII '27. 1808.

POLITIC.!/. EVENTS OP THE WEEK.

WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND SWEDFS.

The Declaration of the Russian Emperor against Swe-
den, and the Counter-Declaration► of his Swedish Majesty
inc arrived in this country. As they are too lung to 1w
iserted verbatim, and are not properly speaking State-
Papers for an English Newspaper, inasmuch as they do not
immediately affect England, we shall content ourselves
with laving- the substance before our readers.
The Emperor of Russia has begun by relating that he
had notified to England his determination of resisting the
si,,,rression on Denmark, and that, by a Note dated "24th

Z•e ptember last, he declared this resolution to Sweden.

That an article in the Treaty of 1783 between Catherine

and GustaTus 111. and another in the Treaty of 1800 he-

twcen Paul and the present King of Sweden, contain the
reciprocal agreement of guaranteeing the Baltic as a close
Sea. That by those Treaiies the Emperor had thought
himself justified in requesting the co-operation of Sweden..,

MARCH 27.

against England. That Sweden had not disavowed the
ohligations of these Treaties, but refused to co-operate
until the French troops were removed front the coast, and
the German ports opened to English ships. The Declara-
tion, after charging the King of Sweden with partialits
for Britain. proceeds to state, that the Emperor, in a sc.
cond Note, dated 16th NON ember, informed his SweiNi
Majesty of the actual rupture between Russia and raiz..
land : which Note was for two months unanswered, and
when answered at last, contained the same proposals that
had been made before. That the Emperor congratulates
himself on his own past moderation ; but that, bring in,
formed of Great Britain's endeavour to terrify Den.
mark by a throat of Occupying Zealand with Swedish
troops, and of her prom'se to guarantee Norway io
the Swedish King ; being assured also, that tin' swedi,ll
King, while the Russian Note remained nuans,serd,
was negotiating a Treaty at London, his I inperial Ma.
jesty could not allow Sweden to disgust her ail:lament in
England tinder a pretence of neutrality, and had thereloie
been obliged to resort to those means which Providence
had placed in his hands. That nevertheless the Emperor
will change his measures into measures ()Emcee precantip.
if the King of Sweden will join Russia and Denmark ;11
shutting the Hattie against England until the conclusion of
a maritime peace, which he is earnestly ins ited to 410,

The Declaration of the King of Sweden beginsby in yei:rh.
ing against a rupture commenced without a declaratiou,
even the statement of a single grievance. it recounts tias
terms of amity that lately subsisted between Sweden ,c;ii
Russia, and the Emperor's promise in the Russian Mani.
fest() of August :to, Iso6, to reject all ()tiers of Peace, hobs.
ever advantageous, which con hl not be reconciled with the
honour of the Russian name, the security of the country,
the interest of his allies, and the general tranquillity of Eu-
rope. how far, says this Swedish Declaration, the Finite-
roes promise is consistent with the Peace of Tilsit, has ken
declared by the present age, and posterity will affirm the
doom : The Kin; of Sweden stood upon the theatre of tsar,
and was not acquainted with the negotiations till Pea,.
was concluded, contrary to the express stipulations of Ow
treaty made between Sweden and Russia on the lith ni
of January, 1805, Article 1 X.
The Declaration goes on to stale, that the nests of the
Peace between Russia and France was followed by an affil r
!o contribute to the conclusion of a. pacific treaty for
den, which induced his Swedish Majesty to renew the de-
mand of an armistice. That this being denied, taught hint
to appreciate the %Ale of Russian co-opcfstlioo and he
was obliged to give up his Germaii dominions. That his
rejection of certain ads ant ageous of from France mas
not a matter for which he claimed praise, but that it ,ace
him a right to expect honourable conduct from Itus.ia :
for one of these (Akre had been, that in ease of a rupture
with Russia, the provinces lost in the reign of ('IISRL►S
XII. should he restored to Sweden, with the addition of
any part of the Russian Empire which Sweden should rt.-
quire. That the tendency of the. Secret Articles of Tils:t
which were first suspected to exist, and afterwards acknow-
ledged by the Russian Ministry, begais to appear, aid
that the steps taken by France to hem in the Continent,
and shut it against the English trade, spread misery °Nee
every state. That by a Mite of nth Octuliker, it was Pro-
posed by Russia that Sweden should co-operate, as in 1 to.'o.
LO shut the Baltic k tq which his Swedish Itrije44 had."'