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London, England, 1810-12-22 00:00:00

DUTCH PAPERS.

FROM TILE SUPPLEMENT TO THE ABEILLE DU NORD,

CF DEC. 4, 1810.

The declaration of the Swedish Government_
which we give to-day, was not inserted in the Co-.
penhagen Gazettes, but with the approbation of
his Excellency the Swedish Minister, we are now
obliged to translate it from the Danish, not having •
seen it in French, the language in which it. was
originally written.
" Sweden, in breaking its allegiance with England,
and adopting its former political relations as much
through inclination as a recollection of events, has
learned to understand by her own experience toe
results of the exclusive system' which she has.
hitherto pursued.
" The calamities which she has Suffered, the mul-
tiplied losses' which she has _ experienced were the
inevitable consequences of an impolitic and unequal
war in which she engaged. Hef intemst and wants
point out the course she ought in future to adopt.
" Sweden, desiring nothing but the establishing
in peace theVorces that she still possesses, may hope
to preserve a good understanding with every power,
without bong forced to make such-war, which the
recent loss 1,11 a third part of her territories would
•
render still more bitter.

" The treaties of peace concluded with France,
Russia, and Denmark, who have adhered to the
Continental system, had,' it is_true placed Sweden
on equal terms with those powers but these trea-
ties did not insist on her entirely ab.inioning th,it
system of neutrality which she desired to main-

" Nevertheless, Sweden has found herself from that
period a 1 ays the mark for calumny, which has
perhaps excited envy and hatred against her. She
has been accused of not having punctually fulfilled
the engagements which good faith, as well as the
high character of the King, demanded. All the
abuses which took place in the Baltic, to the ad-
vantage. of English coninm-ce, were imputed to
her; and it was pretended Sweden, by these cir-
cumstances,. had thrown many obstacles in the way
of the conclusion of a general peace.
His Majesty the Emperor of the French and
King of Italy, has considered it his duty to make
some observations io the King to do away his doubts
which remained for resolving upon the true relation
which ought to subsist between Sweden and Great
Britain.

" The King who, under these circumstances,
.has
before his eyes but the sentiments of consideration
and attachment which he has vowed to his Imperial
Majesty, and who even acknowledges that some
anions relative to commercial engagements may
have given reason for well-founded complaints, con-
vinced that it is his duty to
.declare, that the accu-
mulated accusations against Sweden are false, has
resolved to give new gdarantees of his intentions,
and of the fundamental principles
itipon which he
will aet for the future. His Majesty has, in
consequence declared war against England, and has
ordered an immediate sequestration to be laid on all
English ships, which contrary to appearances may
be found in the ports of Sweden, in order to db
away every accusation of having a secret under-
standing with England, or infidelity in not observ-
ing the importation of colonial produ&s upon
the Continent. He has renewed his severe
decrees, formerly issued against introducing into
Sweden goods of Englioli manufaanre, as well as
colonial produce, of whatever kind it may be,
without regard to the flag which may convey it,
and to declare that be will not permit, under any
pretext, the exportation of colonial merckandize,
or those of English manufaaure, to the Continent.
" His Majesty will give the necessary orders for
making the stricte3t inquiries respecting colonial pro-
&lets, or goody of English manufacture, which have
been imported, into Sweden, no matter under
what flag, since the 24th of April last, and that ac-
cording to law, they shall be placed at the disposi-
tion of the King.

• ",The King, in making these sacrifices: of which
experience will manifest the importance, has always
proposed not only to express by it the attachment
Which he has promised to the, person of his Ma-
jesty-the Emperor of the French, 'but. also to satisfy
the desire which hehas to contribute to the success
if the Continental system, which has` latterly had for
its object a maritime peace.,
His Majesty, in uniting his efforts to, those of
the other powers of the Continent, to accelerate
this epoch so' interesting to humanity, will justify
to his subjeas the causes of the considerable losses
Which circumstances have made them suffer,9 and
prove to all, Europe that the establishing of
peace upon the st a, and restoring coma-mace
to its natural independence, has never depended on
him. In consequence of thisolie formal declaration
of war against England shall be published in our
_periodical Papers, and the most ,stria measures
adopted to seize and confiscate colonial products, or
goods. of English manutaclure.'!