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creased, according to eircumstances, from the garri. ' The injuries which they have done us have been the
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son of Barcelona. This circumstance occasions the object of our complaints. The justice and good &jib
towns of Mataro and Villarcuva, and others* the of his Majesty the Emperor of the French have gua.
coast, to become more precarious; but as all the ex- renteed their redress.
tuitions of the enemy cost them many men, it is to " The protections given by friendly Gove:nmente
be supposed that they cannot continue this warfare ' have been respected, and-such of their ships as have
long without exposing their force to be cut off, which touched upon our coasts have been at liberty to con.
nearly happened a few days since at Mataro by the tinue their voyage, whatever might be their dell.
Baron de Eroles's division. 'nation.
The siege of the Medea Island is also an occupa- 1 " About 50 American ships, driven upon our
don of the enemy ; but lam happy to learn, that coasts by successive tempests, have been released_
there are no apprehensions for its security. 1 This act of justice, founded upon the ugh of ne.
The news from Aragon is very favourable 1 the dons, has been appreciated by the United S and
entire defeat of 1000 men at Calatayud, by the Em- ' appearances promise us that batter and „eta.
pecinado, is confirmed ; and, in addition to the con- ' tons with their Government will facilitate the toper.
firmation of various small and successful actions of cation of the numerous piles of iron with which ote
Mina. in the neighbourhood of Zaragoza, there is public pieces are now filled.
strong reason to believe a report, that he has Lately i " Political considerations join with the family con.
attacked and routed 6000 recruits or conscripts, near nection which unites your Majesty and the King or
Caparosso. I Prussia to consolidate the relations of friendship tee
The French force in Aragon at present is very subsist between the two Powers.
small, General Suchet having almost drained it to : 64 The Peace with Russia will not he troubled; tet
support him in Valencia, so that there iseeason to treaties by which it is cemented, are executed on both
suppose, fkom every information, that there does not sides with frankness and good faith,
exist more than very weak garrisons in Zaragoza. I " Our relations with the Austrian Empire as
Daroca, and Jaca, and in those points absolutely nee, upon the most amicable footing ; the remembrance
cessery for communication. of glory brisg the two nations near to each other, and
ADMIRALTY OFFICE, MN. 25. I your Majesty will neglect nothing which can con no
Copy of a Letter from Captain Griffiths, of !Vs Majesty's Ship bute to maintain the reciprocity el confidence and '
the Leonidas, adjiressed to Viee-Admind .thornborpugh, and esteem it causes.
transmitted to John Wilsoo Crokrr, Esti. i alf Spain and Portugal should assume a tranquil
Leonidas, at Sea, Jan. 17,181 t. posture, these countries will offer to Sweden COMMer.
Sin—This morning, at day-light, we fell in with; cial advantages, which would guaranty the perfec.
schooner privateer, to whom we gave chace ; our Lions of the plans she has commenced for imprtrviag
presence saving two merchant-vessels then at hand, : her iron mines.
The very variable and unsettled weather rendering ; 44 Our intercourse with Southern America has ea,
our catching leer a doubtful point, I was glad, at tirdy ceased—civil war ravages these tine and unfor.
half past two, P.M. to observe a ship crossing her tunate countries. When they have a regul it admi.
track. It proved his Majesty's sloop Dasher, to • nitration the prodiice of the kingdom s iii find an ad.
whom she surrendered at half past four. Her name vantngenus vent there.
the ConfiAnce, of It guns (thrown °ye:beard in the i 4' The maritime war has interrupted our commie.
chace), and 68 men, nine days from St. Maloes and dal relations with Turkey ; but nothing, which into.
had taken nothing.—l have the honour to he, &c. rest; that :iticient fiiend of Sweden, car. be indiffde=
(Signed) A. Jso. GRI kTITIIS, Captain.' to your Majesty.
[ror the List of Siseaiffs, Military Promotions, Bankrupts, &c. " Sire ! Such are the exteritw relations of Sweden,
ses the Last Page.] ittsCCU and good teith toward+ all nations have beat
the political guides of your Majesty.
~ The army and the finances, these two principal
guarantees of a stat.., have, above all, been the ob.
jects of my constant s dicitude.
" A wise economy has governed the expenditure
of the funds destined for the armaments the state cf
war h;d repdered necessary. This war having great
influence upon the exportation of Swedish perdue
Lions, upon the general proceedings of tredve and the
imaginations of merchants, had caused the course of
exchange to rise to an extravagant height. I pare.
elderly directed my attention to step this scourge 4
States, which having once bract its dykes, no bands
can be placed to its ravages.
" In repressing on the one side stock jobbing, 4
carrying into execution the artcient laws against the
unlawful exportation of gold and silver, in imposing
a duty of transit upon the eye f ingots from;
foreign countries patting through Sweden, in vides-
vowing to br ng back the nation to the principles of
economy which distinguished their ancestors. On tie
other side I have endeavoured to give activity tto the
internal industry and lawfid commerce ul Sweden, 4
have bad the satisfaction of seeing my drifts teen*
with success, end that th- course of exchange up
Hamburgh, which in March last was at 106 sk, pile
Sd of the present January, only 84 sk.
44 I have taken measures to render mote pond
the manuficturt of linen and the culture if limpl—
y' actively proceed in the discovery oi new sources
for obtaining salt ; to continue the ck.aing of the
groun I in Dalecarli.i, establish; new cemmuteicatire
with, and new markets in Verne land ; to form a come
Many destined to carry on the herring-fishery in the
open sea ; to prolong our commercial relations welt
Finland ; to carry into execution the financial retie
dans of the states of the kingdom ; to give to the 6.
rection ~.f magazines, to those of the customs, and
the island of St. Bartholomew, a fresh organizations
" The harvest not having proved a good one, 4
have adopt. d means to prevent a scarcity, by camel
corn to be imported fie in foreign countries, but in cie
der to prevent such importation influencing the es.
change, salt must be exported for grain so received.
e This exchange will be effected with so myrtles
more facility, as there et exists a sufficient provision
of salt in the country for two years' consumption.
a I have with grief observed, that the immoderate
use and manufacture of brandy, by which the got'
ral interests are sacrificed to individual ones, tibial
corrupts the nation, and will sooner or later inevita-
bly cause a scarcity—l have only employed exhorts
dons on this subject, u tech I have collected foam tbe
paternal sentiments of your Majesty ; and I leave it
to other times, and to the judgment of the States' s°
put an end to an evil which every body ackatne
ledges continues encreasing.
e I have paid particular attention to the scatted
organization of the Hospitals, ee the veligiousesish.
lishments, and for the means of prevencipss Or it hag
relieving mendicity.
a The interior police and agriculture have nrtLa
lost sight of, and a central Academy of Agrillimil
wiil shortly be established, for the purpose of giving
an impulse and on encouragement to the pubic ere
nomy, and to scientific knowledge, which will cootie
bate to ensure the prosperity 9f the State.
Gs The works of tl e Canal of Gothleed, that
eared
monument of your Majesty's reign, have bees ewe_"
on with great activity. Those of ip Canal of fo
destelge. stopped by obstacles, which the gala'
forts of the directors have not been able to mow°
have again commenced with move ;lipid WWI.
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" I have carried into execution tot
the ems few
tion of the stake of the kingdom, ,
Majesty, regarding the national armaments
ful not to deprive agriculture of MITI
arc indispensably necessary for the
country, I havk merely ordard it levy
exclusive of the 50,000 which the
at your Majesty's disposal. The ,
were carried ;vein into &bonen, ht
peblic rebellion three:abed for a r
I he execution of the lIIRASOi es ordaloed.
our enemies, or inch as are envious r
begin to rejoice at our inpethse divir'
were soon suppressed by the united I
and the laws! • 'and were seconded
national 'mammon and obedience'
racencin in the new fliOglegne

A NHOLT MAIL.

SVTDEN.

HIS 'SWEDISH MAJESTi RENCIIPTI3N OF HIS FUNCTIONS,
AND THE ADDRESS OF THE CROWN PRINCE ON THE
OCCASION.

STOCKHOLM, JAN. 9.

His Royal Majesty's health being now so far re-1
established, that his Majesty conceives laimsQlf able
to resume the functions of Government, his Majesty
thought proper, in conformity to his resolution trans-
mitted to his Royal Highness the Crown Princ,?, to
appoint the 7th of this month for that purpose. For
this purpose all the Members of the Council of State,
and the Secretaries of State, at half-past ten o'clock
on that. day, waited upon his Royal Highness the
Crown Prince, when his Excellency Count Gytten-
borg, Minister of tke Justiciary Department, explained
to his Royal Highness the sentiments of respectful es.
teem and gratitude with which the Members of the
Council wete filled, during the time that his Royal
Highness had directed the national affairs, s hick sen-
timents never would forsake them.

His Royal Highness w•:s pleased to reply to the
address in the most gracio, s terms, and whereupon
the Crown P, irce, accompanied by the aforesaid
Lords and Gentlemen, repaired to his Royal Mjesty,
to whom he read the statement of the public busanes,,
hereafter following in this paper, frail the 17th of
March last. His Royal Majesty, overpcwered by
the most lively sensations, embraced the Crown Prince,
and declared that he could not express all that his heat t
felt on this occasion towards him, but left tde internal
satisfaction which his Royal Highness must derive
from past times, to tell him all thathis Royal Majesty's
gratitude and the well-founded establishment of ute
kingdom's welfare require towards him.
SPF.t.eit ADDRESSED BY NIS ROYAL HIGNNFAII Tilt PRINCE
ROYAL TO 'IDE RING, UPON 111 MAJESTY'S RESUMING ]lli
GOVERNMENT OF 'IDE KINGDOM, 014 TUE i IN JAN. 1812.

Stint—My most ardent wishes have been fulfilled
The reestablished health of your Majesty again ena-
bles you to resume the Government of the kingedcm.
" I can appeal to your own heart to judge of the
delightful emotion mine experiences in replacing be-
tween the hands of your Majesty an authority, the
prolonged exercise of which as constantly kept be-
fore me the danger which threatened your days.
" Notwithstanding the .daily reports which I have.,
submitted to your Majesty, both respecting the ex-
terior and interim situation of the state, I nevertheless
consider it my duty to profit by the present occasion,
so important for me, upon all accounts, to present
your Majesty with a rapid sketch of them.
" When your Majesty decided upon embracing
the Continental policy, and declaring war against
Great Britain, Sweden had got clear of an unfortu-
nate contest ; her wounds were still bleeding ; it were
necessary for her to make new sacrifices, at a moment
even when she lost one of the principal branches of
her public reventm ; the whole of that produce by the
customs being nearly annihilated.
" In defiance of the insulated situation of Sweden,
she has performed, for the interest of the common
cause, all that could be expected from a pe( ple faith-
ful to their engagements; more than 20,000,000 or
rix dollars have been expended in recruiting the army,
and placing in a sate of defence the coasts of our
islands, our fortresses, and our fleet.

" I will not dissemble from your Majesty that our
pommerce has been reduced to a simple coasting trade
from port to port, and has greatly suffered from this
state of war. Privateers, under friendly fl igs, against
which it would have been injurious to have adopted
measures of safety and precaution, have taken advan-
tage of our confidence in treaties to capture, one after
another, nearly 50 of our merchantmen ; but at last,
Sire, your flotilla received orders to protect the Swe-
dish flag, and the just commerce of your subjects.,
against piracies, which could neither be authorized
nor avowed by any Government.
" The Danish cruizers have given much cause for
complaint on our part, but the evil decreases daily,
and every thing leads us to think that the lawful
commerce of bwedan will not be any longer disturb
ed by them, and that the relations of good neighbour-,
hoodJiip v.-ill be more and more strengthened.
" The cruizers under the French gag have given
unlimited eit.ension to their letters of marqu,..--,

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to their duty.
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