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FURTNE.II 21712,117'S PROM THE MENU!
PAPERS TO THE 18TH INSTANT.

PARIS, ocrbsr.R 14.

Mom the Malheur.)
• When Sweden, seeing order established around
her, and finding herself alone, without the natural
boundary of her policy, and exposed to the disasters
of a war contrary to her interests, found the neces-
sity of rectifying her system, and giving a successor to
a Prince whose too weak arm could no longer bear
the sceptre or the sword of the great Gustavus, shp
consulted with the French Government. It was from
among French military men, who, upon the faith of
fame, had partaken of that immensity of glory, con-
quered by twenty years labour and success, that Swe-
den, to give an inviolable pledge of attachment to
her natural Ally, chose the Chief who was to preside
over her new destinies.
The Swedes must have supposed, that a man who
had had the honour of fighting under the eyes of his
•Majesty the Emperot of the French, who served his
policy, and who owed to the Imperial generosity his
rank, his fortune, and his consideration, would always
remember his first country, and the favours with
which he had been loaded ; and that he would endea-
vour to consolidate the independence of his people, by
consulting their interests and their inclination, which
for two centuries had attached them-to the system of
France. The choice of Sweden was a language which
was understood by all Europe, and those who only
knew the new Prince Royal by his military reputa-
tion, did not far a moment doubt that he would fol-
low a route traced out by his illustrious predecessors.
But even prudence is deceived in her calculations
when she does not take into consideration private
passions, the influence of which rarely gives way to
that of reason. Persons who were intimately ae-,
quainted with Charles John Bernadotte, had seen
him, during the Revolution, float without principle,
and without compass, at the mercy of events ; to
flatter, serve, betray, in their turn, the factions which
disputed for power; jealous of military talents which
he despaired of equalling ; uneasy in the midst of the
re-establishment of order, secretly tormented by ambi.
tious desires, ungrateful by character, and taking his
vanity for elevation, and his natural restlessness for
genius • those persons, I say, observed his proceed-
ings with distrust, and were not long in discovering
that the hopes of Sweden would be deceived ; that
the new Prince Royal would separate his interests
from those of his people, and would only use his in-
fluence to satisfy the avidity of his ambition.
Naturally factious, the new Prince Royal soon gave
himself up to that faction which the gold of England,
and the promises of Russia, had for such a length of
time supported at the Court of Sweden, and of which
some members, landholders in Livonia, thought less
of serving the State, than to preserve their tortune,
and augment the expence of the Swedish nation.
They persuaded the Prince to abandon to Russia,
Finland, an integral part of the kingdom ; and to
hold out, in the conquest of Norway, a shameful
equivalent. Hence that demand of the cession of
Norway, to the prejudice of Denmark. It is known
that the French Government rejected that project
with indignation.
However, events pressed forward ; our armies,
conducted by the Emperor, penetrated into the heart
of Russia. So long as fortune remained faithful to
us, the Prince Royal, although probably detached at
heart from his former country and august benefactor,
did not present himself upon the field of battle. It
was not because he feared to spill the blood of his
countrymen, but that sort of prudence which allies
itself extremely well with ostentatious speeches, that
prevented him from appearing upon the Continent.
it was only when the irresistible fury of the ele-
ments had overwhelmed the French army, that, en.
couraged by the defection of Prussia, be more inti-
mately connected hiniself with the enemies of France.
By what reasons can he justify this proceeding ?
How will he excuse himself to Sweden, for having
thrown her into a line of policy, which she cannot
follow without danger, and for sacrificing the blood
of her people in a cause which is foreign to them.?—
Will the chimerical hopes he entertains respecting
Norway, console the Swedish nation for the real evils
which it is obliged to suffer ? Will the cession of
Guadaloupe be a recompence for them ? But what
Swede has not already felt, that this cession, with-
out guarantee, is illusory, and that that cannot be '
ceded which has not been acquired by a treaty.—
Bernadotte is, perhaps, the only man in Sweden who
has not seen, that this offer of England was but an
insult ; and that the British Minister, accustomed to
speculations of every kind, had not disdained to cal-
culate how tar the levity, or, not to hesitate about a
word, the ignorance of its new Ally would extend.
It is, therefore, for uncertain expectancies that
Sweden has given up Finland, her natural bulwark,
and detached herself from a system followed with
such success during two centuries ; and it is a man
who owes his dignities and his power but to the in-
fluence of the French Government, to a military re-
nown acquired in combating the enemies of France
—it is he, who, forgetting all that is sacred in the
world, betrays, at the same time, his honour, his for-
mer country, and the best interests of that nation
which had taken him into its entire confidence. Let
him walk upon the Continent till his hour has arriv-
ed ; let him walk, escorted by the Kotzebues, the
Gentz,the Schlegels, and all the contemptible libelists
paid by the English oligarchy ;—but let him learn,
that he has been judged by his countrymen, as he
will be judged by posterity ; letlim know, that the
destinies of France are unalterable, and that the efforts
of her enemies will be wrecked before the valour of
her armies, the patriotism of her citizens, and the
energy of her government.

FRONTIERS OF SAXONY, OCTOBER 6.
It is pretended that, according to the last plan of
the coalesced Powers against the French armies—a
P.plan whieb has been deteated—the enemy's army of
Berlin was to have passed the Elbe, at several points,
march against Leipsick, and from thence upon Alten-
burg and Zeist, where it was to have effected its junc-
tion on the rear of the French army of Dresden, with
a part of Prince Schwartzenberg's army, and after-
wards march upon Dresden, whilst the Russian and
Prussian army in Bohemia and Lusatia would com-
bine its movement upon the same city. For this pur-
pose, the Commander in Chief of the coalesced army
of Berlin caused three bridges to be established upon
the Elbe; one at Aiken (between Dessau and Darby),
the second at Itordau (near Dessau), stud the third