Star.
London, England, 1808-06-03 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

COPENHAGEN, APRIL 30.
Our Gazette contains the following observations
on the Answer published at Stockholm to the Danish
Declaration of War :
" The King of Sweden must have little respect for his people,
if he can suppose then'' to be so unacquainted with the events of
our time, that he may be permitted to confound effects with their
causes, by representing the alliance of Denmark with France as a
caste of the present war, when it is to be considered, as all Eu-
rope knows, as a consequence of the treacherous attack of Eng-
land. The King of Sweden thinks he can so blind the eyes ct the
Swedish nation, that he can make them believe that the war in
which Sweden is engaged, is a defensive war, whereas it is an
offensive one, which it has cost the King of Sweden much ti aubic
to procure, as he has done all in his power to kindle its games.
" The difference, the very great difference, between the policy
of our Government and that of the King of Sweden has tken,
that the former has with the greatest care endeavoured to secure
to its people the blessings of peace ; while the latter appears only
'to have had for his object to sacrifice the blood of his subjects,
bring on the calamities of war, and to lay waste their peaceable
habitations. All see with surprise the King of Sweden, whose
constant restlessness, and whose false policy has extended the
theatre of war so far to the North, yet represents himself as the
Sovereign who had offered peace and tranquillity to the Baltic and
its coasts. But he has rend, red his love for peace too manifest
for such an offer to be confided in.
" AL er having made every exertion, for a series of years, to
become involved in a war, and having at length obtained his ot-
ject, and shown that he knew how to enter into a war inconside-
rately, and how to maintain it with folly and obstinacy after he
had been compelled entirely to abandon the first theatre of his
war, it was believed that true policy and regard for the welfare of
his subjects would have induced hint to live in peace and good
understanding with his neighbours, and to find a refuge in the pa-
:ience of a magnanimous people,against a stortn which he himself
had raised. His sense of danger on the one hand, and of his
feebleness on the other, might probably inspire him with the wish
to see thh Baltic maintained free front a foreign fleet.
" While in Germany he wished to set bounds to the victories
of the Emperor Napoleon, and used every endeavour to persuade
different Courts that this was his object, nor would he pledge him-
self for the tranquillity and security of the Baltic front English
ships ? Can we place more confidence in one of these professions
than the other ? Can it be required of Denmark to trust the pa-
cific promises of England? Will they be held more sacred than
those given last year, at the very moment when an attack was
i 'tended ?
" A Sovereign can have little respect for the truth, who can
say to his nation, whose danger and sufferings are the only con-
sequences of an alliance with England, ' I have concluded an al-
liance with England to obtain the means of defence for Sweden r
Was Sweden then in danger ? Who threatened Sweden with an
attack ? Against whom was this protection and aid necessary ?
Every Swede of sense knows, as well as all Europe, that all his
losses, and all the dangers that threaten him, are the consequence
of this alliance with England, which no self-defence rendered ne-
ceseary. Had this alliance not existed, Sweden would still have
possessed Pomerania, would still have possessed Finland, and the
country would not have been a prey to famine, and all the misery
which wet- brings with it. Were all the offers actually made to
the King of Sweden, which he has signified were made, England
is much indebted to him for not accepting them; but the Swedish
nation is not. And if it were prudence not to accept some of
these offers, it is to be regretted that they could not induce him
to depart from an alliance that must certainly have the most de-
structive consequences to his country.
" Had the King of Sweden seen the true interest of himself and
his country, the North would have preserved peace. Sweden
would have still possessed Pomerania and Finland—Denmark her
fleet and tranquillity—and England her honour. All these losses
are thel consequences of the policy of the King of Sweden. How
often has Sweden been warned by the powers of Europe ? Had
we received such warning, our fleets would have been in safety,
and ready, if necessary, to guard, in conjunction with our North-
ern Brethren, the safety of our seas from theTyrantsof the Ocean."