The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-11 00:00:00

THE KING OF SWEDEN.

Extract of a private letter received on Saturday from
Stockholm :

" I shall send you a copy of an interesting letter which the
King dictated himself from his bed to the Duke of Welling-
ton, in answer
.to oue his Grace had addreased_to his Ma-
jesty. The King, in this letter, expresses his profound es-
teem for your great hero, and his gratitude for the sympathy
and solicitude his Grace has constantly evinced during the
severe malady of the august patient.'. Since I last wrote the
King has undergone a severe ordeal. - On the 18411 a tendency
to suppuration showed itself in,..the discoloured part of the
foot; the King had a good night's test, and his strength on
waking was manifestly increased. On tile 22d the black
gangrenous spot became enlarged, the suppuration ceased,
and the strength of the patient declined. On the 22d and
23d another favourable crisis occurred, the King slept
soundly, his appetite returned, and the suppuration, a re-
storative process of nature, began once more. This improve-
ment lasted until the 24th; but on the 25th his weakness in-
creased, his appetite and his strength failed him once more.
This improvement lasted until the 24th ; but on the 25th his
weakness increased, his appetite and his strength failed him
once more. He experienced no fever, but was a prey to mor-
bid jactit4tion, and was sleepless during the nights of the
26th and 27th. On the latter day the leg on the gangrenous
side became discoloured, showing that the mortification was
extending, although the suppuration had not ceased.
" On the 26th, the King commanded thatalnew proclama-
tion to the subjects of his two kingdoms should be drawn out
for him to sign ; saying that he could not foresee in what
state he should be on the Ist of March, the day on which the
former proclamation, and the duration of the Regency which
it established, would expire. He had the dispatches of the
day read to him as in general, listened with profound atten-
tion and interest to their tenor, and had read over to him
again those passages which he deemed most interesting. It
was on the 27th he wrote to the Duke of Wellington, and on
that day he ordered a distribution of wood to the poor suffer-
ing from the inclemency of the season. He still preserved all
his faculties, the goodness of his heart and the elevation of
his thoughts and views ; whilst his kindness betrayed itself
in a thousand minute details.
" His grandson, the Prince Charles, the eldest born of his
son, the _Prince Oscar, has recently been labouring under a
most serious attack of illness ; but all danger is over at this
moment, when the post is on the point of leaving."—Post.

THE ItIGHT HON. TEE SPEAKER'S .LEVEE.--On
Saturday night the Speaker of the House of Commons held
his second sessional levee, at his residence, in Eaton-square.
The reception of the Right Hon. Gentleman was rather nu.
merous, and the Duke of Wellington, Earl of Shaftesbury,
Lord Lowther, and Sir Augustus Clifford, were among the
visitors. The following Members of the House of Commons
paid their respects to the Right Hon. Gentleman :—The
biarquis of Douro, Lord Stanley, the Right Hon. W. E.
Gladstone, the Judge Advocate-6eneral, the Lord Advocate,
Lord Charles Wellesley, Viscount Duncan, Viscount Jocelyn,
Earl Jermyn, Lord Eliot, Sir William Jolliffe, Sir John
Walsh, Colonel Wood, Colonel Thomas Wood, the Right.
Hon. Frederick Shaw, Captain Boldero, Mr. Maunsell, Mr.
Protheroe, Mr. Lindsey, Dir. John Round, Mr. Botfield,
Mr. Forster, Mr. Divett, Mr. V. Smith, Mr. John Young,
Mr. Lefroy, Mr. Towneley, Mr. Dunn Gardener, Mr. John
Lowther, Mr. Bailey (Herefordshire), Mr. Tollemache
(Cheshire), Sir George Staunton, Mr. Antrobus, Lord
James Stuart, Mr. Rice, Mr. Scholefield, Dr. Bowring, the
Hon. Octavius Duncombe Mr. Collett (Athlone), Mr.
Hindley, Mr. Blackstone, daptain Taylor, Mr. B. Wilbra-
ham, Mr. Pakington, Mr. James (Cumberland); Mr. Elphin-
stone, Sir Charles Burrell, Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Mr,
Wyse, Mr. Waddington, Mr. Wrightson, Mr. L. Fox, Mr:
Villiers Stuart, Sir Edward. Colebrooko, Mr. Komble,
Sir Stephen Glynne, Mr. Barclay, Mr. Stanton,
Right Hon. B. Macaulay, Mr. B.Hughes, 11Ir. C. Leigh, Mr.
W. Collett, Colonel Powell, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Allix, Hon. E.
Yorke, Mr. Trelawney, Mr. S. Davis, Mr. Ross (Rosstrevor),
Mr. G. Craig; Mr. J. H. Vivian, Viscount Ebrington, Mr.
Tufnell, Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Wawn, Mr. C. 'Douglas, Mr.
Estcourt, Mr. Shirley (Warwickshire), Mr. Ward, "Mr.
Hastie, Lord Worsley, 'Lord Acheson, -Hon. Colonel D.
Darner, Viscount Howick, Mr. Martin, Colonel Fox, Sir G.
Grey, Mr. Rashleigh, Mr. Stewart (Lyming-ton), Mr. Ald-
ham, Hon. J. S. Wortley, Mr. Hawes, Hon. W. B. Baring,
Lord Howard, Sir John Mordaunt, Mr. Acland, Sir William
Y, Mr. Greene, Mr. W. 0. Stanley,
Hmera. thAc.otce,hallpfmr.aTnhn
Chapman,
o3rire.l
LYall, Mr. Beresford, Sir Charles
Lemon, Mr. Grogan, Lord Harry Vane, the Hon. W. Cowper,
Colonel Rawdon, Mr. Bellew, 11Ir. Railzes Currie, and Mr.
Wilshire. Previous to the levee the Right Hon. Gentleman
entertained Viscount Griinston, Viscount Newport, Lord
Alfred Hervey, Sir T. Dyke Acland, Bart., Mr. Beckett
Denison, Sir Charles Knightley, the Hon. Colonel Rice
Trevor, Mr. Darby, the Hon. Captain Maxwell, Mr. A.
Hodgson, the Hon. Francis Charteris, Mr. W. Beckett,
Captain Jones, Mr. B. Estcourt, Mr. Neeld (Chippenham),
Mr. J. A. Smith, Mr. Thesiger, Mr. G. A. Hamilton, Mr.
Monckton Milnes, Mr. W. Hamilton, Mr. Henley, Mr.
Mundy, Mr. Hope Johnstone, Mr. C. Round, and Dir. J.
Bailey (Worcester), at dinner:
Sir Robert and Lady Peel received the Duchess of
Buccleuch, his Excellency Mr. Everett, M. and Madame
Hummelauer, the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse, Viscount Ma-
hon, Lord Meadowbank, the Hbn. Sydney Herbert, Sir Ben-
jamin Brodie, Professor Oweii, Sir John Pelly, Mr. Sydney
Smirk, the Riglit Hon. John Wilson .Croker, Mr. Barry,
Mr. Eastlake, Jr.b Thomas Baring, Mr. W. _R. Hamilton,
&c., at dinner, on Saturday last, at the family mansion in
Whitehall-gardens. Lady Peel had a soirée after the enter-
tainment, when the splendid picture gallery and connecting
saloons were thrown open for the reception of a,brilliant circle,
including his Excellency the French Ambassador and Countess
de St. Aulaire, the Marquis de St. Aulaire, Baroness Langs-
dorff, Earl and Countess of Jersey, Marquis and Mar.
chioness of Blandford, Lady Louisa Churchill, Sir Henry
and Lady Emily and Miss liardinge' Countess of Verulatn
and Lady Jane Grimston, Viscount Grimston, the Earl of
Aberdeen, his Excellency Baron llugel, the Hon. Captain
Maxwell, M.P., Mr. Ternline, M.P., Mademoiselle D'Este,
Viscount Castlereagh, Baron Bjornstjerna, Earl J ermyn,
Lord Alfred Hervey, Viscount and Viscountess Canning,
Sir James and Lady Graham, his Excellendy the Bava-
rian Minister and Baroness de Cetto, Sir George and
Lady Seymour and Miss Seymour, Mr. Milnes Gaskell,
M.P., Mr. G. Hope, the Hon. Francis and Lady Anne
Chatteris, Captain Peel, Captain A'Court, M.P., Mr. R. Ne-
ville, M.P., Mr. M. Milnes, M P., his Excellency the Vene-
zuelan Minister, Mr. Stafford O'Brien, M.P., the Right Hon.
George and Mrs. Dawson, his Excellency the Turkish Am-
bassador, his Excellency Prince Castelcicala, his Excellency
Count Kielmansegge, Mr. Benjamin D'lsraeli, M.P., and
Mrs. D'lsraeli, Viscount and Viscountess Hawarden, Lady
Fuller, his Excellency the Russian Minister and Baroness
Brunnow, Marquis. and Marchioness of AilesburY, Lady
Lyndhurst and Hon. Miss Copley, Mrs. and Misses Smith,
Mr. Stephenson, Mr A'Court, Viscotintelts Beresford, Mr. A.
and Lady Mildred Hope, hiS ExCelfency Chevalier Bunsen,
Sir George Murray, Lord -Redesdale and.' Hon. Miss Mitford,
Ladies Murray, Sir George and Lady Clerk and Miss Clerk,
Baron Koller, Earl of Lincoln, Mr. W. Beckett, M P., Mr.
and Lady Blanche Balfour, Baron Lebzeltern, Lord and Lady
Brougham, Mr. T. Egerton, M.P. Colonel Thomas Wood,
Lord Charles Wellesley, his Excellency:4lle. -Brazilian Mi-
nister and Marchioness de Lisboa, his Excellency Count Pol-
lon, Mr. Cochrane, M.P., Lord and Lady Granville Somer-
*et and Hon. Miss Somerset, Lord Byron,,Lord Ernest Brace,
Hon. Charles Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Anson, his Excellency
the Belgian Minister and Madame Van der Weyer.
NATIONAL ANIMALS' FRIEND- SOCIETY.—This So-
ciety has been particularly active during the past week. Its
officers have prosecuted upwards of thirty cases of heart-
rending cruelty in London, Derby, Ndtthagham, Sheffield,
Leeds, Worcester, Birmingham, Coventry, Brighton, Rich-
mond, &c. Radcliffe and 138 F took into custody the
driver of Starkie's dustcart for ill-treating and torturing a
horse which was overladen, and severe wounds under 'the
harness—fined 20s. by Mr. Twyford. Also John Wall, for a
similar offence ; the horse had a wound on its back, eight
inches in circumference--fined lOs by Mr. Greenwood, at
Clerkenwell. They also charged Thomas Wilde, a cab-driver,
with ill-treating and torturing a horse at night--fined 20s. and
costs by Mr. Bond, at Queen-square ; he was also fined 20s. for
working with
aritchhafgd Johnaelse badge. Mr. Thomas G. Plume and Mr.
H. Di. alias valters,
before Alderman Hughes,
for cruelly torturing a horse, and working without a badge—
he was fined 10s. Mr. Thomas Plume and Mr. H. M. May,
also charged Samuel Hardwick (groom to Sir Simon Clarke,
Bart.), for cruelty, in whipping a horse which had severe wounds
under the collar. Mr. Rawlinson did not think that a case of
cruelty had been made out against the groom, but directed
that two summonses should be issued against his master (Sir
Simon), who, at the time, was driving the horse, but resisted
the officer, and escaped. Bailey, assisted by Sergeant Griss,
1 F, took into custody a man in the employ of Mr. Jones, of
Walworth, for driving a horse in an unfit condition to work—
he was fined 40s. and costs; and Mr. Twyford ordered the
horse to be taken care of until it was well.—(From a Cor-
respondent.)
EXPORTS TO BRAZIL.—The following return of the
declared value of British and Irish produce and manufac-
tures, exported from the . United Kingdom to Brazil in
the years 1841, 1842, and. 1843, has just been printed.
The gross total declared value of our exports to the em-
pire of Brazil was, in 1841, 2,556,554/. ; in 1842, 1,756,805/. ;
and in 1843, 2,140,1271. ; showing a decisive revival of
our trade with Brazil during the past year. In the latter
period (1843) cotton manufactures figured for 1,096,6691. (or
one-half of the total exports); hardwares and cutlery, for
80,070/. ; linen manufactures, for 154,323/. ; iron and steel for
54,9961; butter, for 64,294/. ; brass and copper manufactures,
for 36,815/. ; arms and ammunition, for 18,1551; apparel,
slops, and haberdashery, for 20,282/. coals, &c., for 9,3961;
earthenware, for 46,4611; glass, for 27,437/. ; leather, wrought
and unwrought, for 23,3091; machinery and millwork, for
17,342/. • soap and candles, for 57,812/. ; silk manufactures,
for 30,4031. ; tin and pewter ware, .Btc., for 11,1081; and
woollen manufactures, for 278,171/. The exports of cotton
lillautifacturea increased last year by 277,139/.