The Sun.
London, England, 1813-02-16 00:00:00

SIVEDISTI STATE PAPEtte

rTteport, tic. concludefl troniVegtertlay's Paper.]
YMlOlajesty looked npon the ignorance
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which the Eniperor oftheErench had left-Sweden,
a proof of his deterniination to drag her despo-
tically into his icontinental System, front %cinch
she foundherselinatiirally detached by the seizure
of Pomerania. Y.mir Majesty beheld also a
in..; example in Out tate which a (11Nonan power,
the friend of STit,ectin, It itl undergone,—whicli,
after being long left in unf:ertainty whether its
offers to contract an alliance would he accepted,
was nil at once' overwhelmed by French troops,
-and compelled to surrender at discretion,
" After the annexation o the badly of Olden-
"butt to the Trench empire, it was known, with
.certainty; that differences both on that point and
on the
.Contine:!:al System, had taken place be-
tween the 4'-oorts of .t"rance and Russia; and that
the preparations for war, which were made wi
both si(le, Ivoubl Wail to open hostilities.
France, however, had still never testified the.
,smallest desire., or Made any Overture to your
Majesty, ten ling- to 'engage Sweden in •a• war
with Russia.
" 141cantvltile, though all friendly relations must
havc been regarded as hrolien by th& occupation
of Pomerania, the foll Owing proposition was
tirade, not officially, but through a 'channel not
less authentic, on'the part of the Emperor Napo-
leon. After givilig a long eSposition of the so
often dwelt upon deviations of Sweden from a
strict observance of the prileinles of the Conti-
nental System, which, it was said, hatlat hist
Compelled filch:llqm or to catts,... hi:aroops to eater
Pomerania, withottx, however, occapying' it, his
Majelty demanded-7 •
e hat a new deClaratioil of mar ShoOld be
tirade against England that all contemnieltion
with English cruisers should be Se 7( rely pra,hi-
lifted : that the coasts of the shoo:d he
armed with batteries ; fleet eitiipped, and
EngliTh vessels fired upon with artillery.
That, besides, Sweden should set on foot an
army of from 30 tO 40,000 rimn, to ;mail- aossia
at the moment when hostilities should commence
bt`tIVCCI.I that Power and France. • ,
" "PO indemnif:,, S','..edeti, the F.,4,operor pro"
mised to hem the reAitntion of Finland.

" His Eniperial iqaje-ty would 6lso bind him-
self to porchast. caloniai produce, to the amount
of 20 millions of franc-, on condition that pay-
ment ghoul(' not be made till the goods were
landed at Dantzic or Lliberl. •

".` Finally, his Imperial Majesty would permit
Sweden to participate in all the rights and advan-
tages enjoyed by the States of the Rhenish Con-
federation,'
" YOur Afujesty at Once perceived the immense
difference which exi3tect betivcen the sacrifices
tints demanded,' and the indenanificati.m which
the kingdOm could promise itself. You could not
overlook the fact, that h state of active warfare
with IlmSsia, the necessary consequenee of which
would be open hostilitieS with. Britain, surpassed
the strength and 're sources of SWed-en that the
iwesenee of an English fleet in tic Baltic wid&
paralyse, during tillllllllCr, the Swedish opera-
tions and that besideS,' since tie' treaty with
Russia, there existed no ground of complaint
against that power; that in the mean time opr
Coast and ports would be abandimed to the yen=
geance of England ; that the complete stag-
nation of coninicrec, and the interruption of
the coasting trade, would occasion general mi-
sery,; that the prcs:,ing wants of Sweden, in re-
spect of grain, imperiously required pacific re-
lations, btnh With .Itns6la and England ; Abut)
the 'sudden' teilnination, of war: between France
and Russia wo;Ild infallibly leave Sweden witliont
if
any angmentation of territory, espniany that
Swedish anny, in conetinence of the war with
England, was prevented from leaving its own
confines ; and that, moreover, these preparations,
and a single year of war,' would require an eqep-
diture of from l'2'to 15 millions of rix-dollars:--
A multitude of other Considenitions determined

your Majesty to look to nothin.g but the happiness
of your subjvils, and the roverity of your king-
dom; and With thii view your Majesty opened
your ports to the ilag,4 of' all uritions.
The efforts of l'ratre to engage Sweden in
open war with England and Russia, were not eon-

fined to` those iiitve just now mentio»cd. The
Austrian Minister itt' your Majesty's '.Court, re-
ceived by a courier from Prince Schwartzenherg,
the :ktrstrian Andiassadgr, it the Fr'ench Court,'
the account of an alliance conehtf:ed at I.'ar4, oil
the 14th March last, bc-tween France— and
that over. Prince Schwtrtzenherg charged
the Minister of his Coto t at StoCkhohn,
in communicating, this information to yotir
Aintjesty's 31ini,ters, to employ all his influence,
to Unitice Sv'eden to take part in the war against
Russia. Your Majesty replied to this, as you had
done to the miner preposition, by declaring, that.
yon' wished •to preserve the tr(inquility at your
kingdom, and that yint accepted the mediation o
4helirry;)erors' of. .!Ilustria 'and Russia, in ..a.ll that
the unjust itivas;on of'Poinerania; that
besides, your Majesty offerod, if it was agsreeah:e
to the Emperor Napoleon, to write to the Court
of litulsia, to etidCaVOilr to prevent the.effdsion or
wood, tui Swed'rsh, Freneh., ;And Austrian
Plenipotentiaries could as-enthle,' for tit e purpose
of settling the disputes which had arktql:

Evelio having vroved that ihcse offers we're
not,aecepted by the r'auperor of the French, your
MAjeoy considered it as a sacred duty to place
your kingdom in a t,t;ite of defence ,
.and you em-
ployed for Owl- ptuptp,v a pottion of ti,/, resour,,,;
avhich your f„liihful StiA,LCS Of the fte:dui Lid
placed at your divo,al, in order to catie the nu-
tioual iwicpcialence to 13C 1 clav,eil :And main-
tained,

A notc had been already ad r ,o;cd to M. tic
ti Vrencli to demand
of him explanation ctf the ,eizurt.; Vontera-
.

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