The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-01 00:00:00

SWEDEN.

The official journal of Stockholm of the 18th pub-
lishes the following important declaration made by
the Swedish Government on the 9th to Prussia, with
respect to the Schleswig and Holstein question
" The events which have just taken place in Denmark,
s and the entrance of the troops of his Majesty the King of
Prussia, and of different other states of the Germanic Con-
federation into the Duchy of Schleswig have not failed
• to awaken the attention and solicitude of H. M. the.
King of Sweden and Norway. Considering the impre-
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.scrinible_right _which . the united kingdoms have to
participate in the resolutions which may be taken with
respect to the affairs of the North, and, considering the
dangers which may arise for the political
Equilibrium guaranteed by treaties, in consequence
of the attack now directed against Denmark,
' the King thinks right to make known to the
Royal Government of Prussia his opinion on the present
state of things, and to declare to it openly and frankly
the manner of acting which his Majesty, after the de-
! sire manifested by his Majesty the King of Denmark,
intends to adopt, and which, in the political complica-
tions of the moment, he considers founded on right.
It does not belong to the King to decide the dispute
relative to the Duchy of Schleswig. The possession
of that country was guaranteed to Denmark by other
powers, which have already offered their mediation to
remove the differences which unfortunately have arisen,.
and it is only in concert with those powers that his
Majesty will decide on this question. But in case the
dispute should not be confined to the Duchy of
Schleswig, if an irruption of troops of the Germanic
Confederation in other provinces of Denmark be to be
feared, the King could not tee with indifference such an
attack on the independence of a neighbouring ally,
and his Majesty would consider the perils which._
may result from it to the safety and independence of his
own states a sufficient motive for sending a corps crarrsee
to Fionia, or any other island belonging to the Danish
monarchy, with the order to join the forces of his
Danish Majesty, and to act in common with them, with
the perfectly defensive object of opposing any dis-
embarkation of German troops. For this purpose
the King is causing a squadron to leave Carle-
crone., and his Miejesty is causing troops to be assem-
bled on the frontiers. Circumstances alone will deter-
mine the instructions to be given to these troops, and to
what extent they will be embarked for the states of his
Majesty the King of Denmark. These measures,
dictated by solicitude for the independence of the
united kingdoms, and the justice of which cannot
be denied, have no offensive character, and the
Royal Government of Prussia may convince itself that •
they have only been adopted after events had taken a
development which no longer permitted the united king-
doms to remain quiet spectators of the deplorable strug-
gle, which approached nearer and nearer their own fron-
tiers, and influenced their most important relations.
The King sincerely desires that the dispute which has
arisen between Denmark and Germany may be ter-
minated
by an amicable compromise, and his Majesty has
. not lost the hope of seeing the good understanding which
is indispensably necessary to the reciprocal interests of the
two countries re-established between them. The
King will always be ready to co-operate in bringing
about a pacific reconciliation founded on equitable bases.
To attain this object., it would be necessary that hostili-
ties should cease on one part and the other, and that ne-
gotiations should be opened, under the mediation of the
powers, which by their demotion ear their political relations
might have the desire and the right to intervene to prepare
the re-establishment of a reciprocal good understanding.
The King, in pausing the present declaration to be sent
to the Government of his Majesty the King of Prussia,
believes he may express the hope that it'rerill, through j
the kind intervention of that Government, be communi-
cated to the other powers members of the Germanic
Confederation.