The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-01 00:00:00

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• EXTILACT OF A LETTER 141.0/ASTOCKUOLM,OCT.2B.
This country, which can proudly assert that it
does not owe one shilling of debt, is at this -mo-
ment in the highest degree of prosperity, which is
'rapidly increasing. There is an enlightened and
mild Government under a popular King, who is
firm on the throne, and may bid defiance to any
attack from a northern colossal. Power ; a con-
tented • and happy people, and the term
'SC Radical" Is not known among them. It.has in
an especial manner been bleSsed with a bountiful
harvest, and, in short, peace and plenty may, in
the strictest sense of the word, he said to reign
throughout every quarter of the kingdom. •
'No Minister, perhaps, who has been appointed.
-to this :Court as a Representative of Great
Britain, •has executed his official duties with
more zeal and ability, and stands more highly
popular, than his Excellency Sir BaNJAMIN
BLOOMFIELD, long the faithful servant of your
King. Ile is beloved from the Sovereign down
to the most humble individual, for his urbanity,
liberality, and condescending manners. Of all
other Ministers here •I assure you Sir BENJAstur
is decidedly the most popular, and may be ranked
as the first, who uniformly receives a- most marked
attention from the King and his family, and
- sometimes .spends days. with them at their country
palaces, and is .seen to walk about arm in anti
with the King. In those parts Sir
.B. visited lust
summer, such us Gottenburgh, &c. where he met
his countrymen, he was allsolutely idolized for
;:his frank and graciOus manlier, and was elegantly
• entertained by them. As to politics, I have the
best reason to know, frOm high authority, that
BeitNAnorrg has declared himself the firm friend
~of the British Empire, and little doubt can be en.
!ertained• thatoyour Ambassador has exerted his
influence in this respect in no ordinary degree.
'!`here has beau; a great fall of snow and hard
frost here,'Ohich has extended to 150 miles in
the interior, where the thermometer of Fahren-
heit stood at .31, and sledges have been moving
about,.a rare circumstance in October. There is
every prospectof an early and severe winter.
The Queen is still here, and to be. seen daily
siding about, and at the Theatre.; but her popu-

/arity, for what cause it is difficult to assign any
reason, stands by no means so high as that of
the King or Prince OSCAR. and his Princess. The
latter have just arrived from Norway, on a visit
to the King, on which occasion the city was illu-
minated. It is fixed by a Royal Mandate that
the Prince shall reside at least six months in the
year at Norway, a wise act to draw the Norwe-
gians, hitherto under the Danish Government,
more closely to the Swedes, so us to constitute
them one people. _ _

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Lord' CASTLEURAGII and Mr. RAE WILSON are
here from Russia. WiLsoN, it is said, has been
annoyed in Russia, having been often taken for a
General of the same name. There have been
different travellers here during last summer, and
I think by and bye a tour in Sweden will be just
as fashionable as that in France or Italy.
Through the activity of General 13r.00mmLn
our city is to be illuminated soon with gas, in
which view some enlightened individualss are in-
vited from London to forward this important ob-
ject. Great improvements are making in the
place, and new buildings erecting. If Mr.
McAnAm's system were adopted we should be
quite the thing, and I hope no stone will be left
unturned to forward this scheme to mend our
ways, after your example in England.
The venerable Count EUICELISTRAN, who long
held the office of Prime Minister, has retired on
a pension for his faithful services, and resides on
the estates of his Countess in Poland, to pass the
remainder of his days. His fine library of 40,000
volumes has been presented to the public. There
are three ships-of-war, of 90 guns each, on the
stocks at Carlscrona, one of which, the Charles
John, is to be launched the 10th of November.
The Swedes are active in augmenting their naval
force, and the King is indefatigable in bringing
the military into the highest state of discipline.

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