Star.
London, England, 1813-10-09 00:00:00

OFFICIAL DOCUMENT.
COPY OF A LETTER FROM HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

THE CROWN PRINCE TO HIS MAJESTY THE
EMPEROR NAPOLEON.
44 As long as your Imperial Majesty acted, or
caused others to act against me only directly, I deem-
ed it proper to oppose to you nothing but calmness
or silence ; but now, when the note of the Duke of
Bassano to M. d'Ohson endeavours:to throw between
the King and me the same firebrand of discord which
facilitated to your Majesty the entrance into Spain,
all ministerial relations having been broken, 1 ad-
dress myself directly to you, for the purpose of re.•
minding you of the faithful and open conduct of Sure:
den, even in the most difficult times.
a To the communicationewhich M. Signeul was
charged to make by order.of your Imperial Majesty,
the King caused it to be replied, that Sweden, con-
vinced that it was only to you, Sire, that she 01111 a
the loss of Finland, could never believe in your friend-
ship for her, unless you procured Norway to be given
to her, to indemnify her for the mischief which. your
policy had caused her.
a With regard to all that is contained in the note
of the Duke of Bassano, respecting the invasion of
'Pomerania, and the conuct of the French privateers,
facts speak for themselves • and on comparing the
dates, it will be seen, whether your Majesty or the
Swedish Government are correct.

A hundred Swedish ships bad been captured,
' and more than 200 seamen pot in irons, when this.
Government saw itself compelled to cause a pirate
to be seized, who, under the 'rent h flag, entered our
very ports to carry off our ships, and to insult our
confidence in treaties.
44 The Duke of Bassano says, that your Majesty
did not provoke the war with Russia; and yet, Sire,
your Majesty passed the Niemen with 400,000 men.
" From the moment when your Majesty plunged
into the interior of that empire, the issue was no
longer doubtful. The Emperor Alexander and the
King, already, in the month of August, foresaw the
termination of the campaign, and its igious re-
sults : all military combinations seemed to guarantee
that your Majesty would be a prisoner. Tie escaped
that danger, Sire; but your army, the elite of France,
of Germany, and of -Italy, twists no more There
lie, unburied, the brave mea who served France at
.Ffeurns—Frenchnsen, who conquered in Italp---who
survived the burning clime of Egypt—and who fined
victory under your colours at Ku -=go, at Auster-
litz, Jena. and Friedland
" May your soul be softened. Sire, at this heart-
rending picture; but should it be memory to _com-
plete the effect recollect also the death of more than
a million of Frenchmen, lyinton the field of honour,
victims of the wars which your Majesty has under-
taken.
" Your Majesty invokes your rights to the fri•ndship
of the King ! "Permit me to remind you, Sire, of the
little value your Majesty attached to its at times when

a reciprocity of sentiment Weittid have been eery *sea
fill to Sweden. When the Sing, lifter having lost
Finland, wrote to your Witty to beg you to pro.
serve for Swedenll6 E files of Aland, you replied to
him, " apply Emperor Alexander—be is great
and generousr to fill -up the measure of your
indifference, you caused it to be insetted is the official
Journal Olfewitiar of thi2lst of Siptesafier, MO et
the moment of my departure for• Sweden, that there
bad been an. istarnssian in that kingdom, during
which the English were cartyitito, their caimans
with impunity.
" The Meg boob off (rein tbe'kelltaitbe• of 1796,
because it was she abject of that Coalition to partition
frances*llit -*mild have no hand is the dismem-
berment at *Saw Monarchy t be was led to that
allaisare. a Ilaoanment of his Apolitical wisdom, as
much by his attachment to the French feople, as by
a wish to heal the wounds of the kingdom. That
Wise and virtuous policy, fonaded on the principle
that every nation has a sight to govern itself by its
own:Wive. its usages, and its. own will, is the very
same which regulates him at the present moment.
" Your system, Sire, would interdict to nations
the exercise of that sight which they have received
from nature—that of trading with each other, of mu-
tually assisting each other, of corresponding and living
in peace; and yet the very existence of Sweden de-
pends upon an extezioa of commercial relations,
without which she would be insufficient for her own
subsistence.
its Far from perceiving in the conduct of the King
any change of system, every enlightened and impar-
tial man will find in it nothing but the continuation
of a just and steady policy: which was manifested at
a period when the Sovereigns coalesced against the
liberty of France; and which is nbw pursued with
energy, at a time when the French Government con-
tinues to conspire against the liberty of nations and
of Sovereigns.
" I know the good dispositions of the Emperor
Alexander, and of the Cabinet of St. James's to.
wards peace—the calamities of the Continent demand
it, and your Majesty ought not to spurn it. Possessed
of the finest Monarchy upon earth, would you be al-
ways extending its limits, and transmit to an arm less
powerful than your's, the wretched inheritance of in.
terminable wars ? Will not your Majesty apply your.
self to the healing of the wounds iiill.cted by a revo-
lution, of which there is nothing left to France but
the recollections of its military glory, and real cala-
mities within its interior ? Sireethe lessons of history
repel the idea of an universal Monarchy • and the
sentiment of independence may be deadened, but can•
not be effaced from the heart of nations. May your
Majesty weigh all these considerations, and at last
really think of that general peace, the profaned pane
of which has can y& so much blood to flow. I was
born, Sire, in that fine France which you govern ;-.
its glory and prosperity can never be indifferent to
me : but without ceasing to form wishes for its hap.
pines:, I will defend with all the powers of my soul,
both the rights of the people who invited me, and the
honour oft a Sovereign oboists coodemeoded to call
me his- son. la this mama between the liberty of
the world and oppression, I will my to the Swedes—
' I fight for you, and with you ; and tbesood wishes
of all free nations will accompany our :Irons.'
" In politics, Sire, neither friendship nom hatred
has place—there are only duties to fulfil towards the
nations whom PNOVIDINCII has summand us to go.
wen : their laws and their privileges are the blessings
which are dear to them ; and if, an order to preserve
them, one is compelled to renounce old connections
and family affections, the Prince who wishes to per-
form his duty, can never hesitate which course to
adopt.
" The Duke of Bassano announces, that your Ma-
jesty will airoid the icier of a ruptore ; but. Sire, was
it not your Majesty' who interrupted wit commercial
rehuioos, by ordesing the capture of Swedish vessels
in the bosom of peace i Was it not the rigour of your
orders which forbid us every kind of communication
with the Continent for three years, and which, since
that period, caused more than fifty Swedish vessels
to he detained at . Wismar, Rostock, and other ports
of the Baltic ?
44 The Duke of Bassano adds, that your Majesty
will never change your system, and will consider this
as a civil war; which indicates that your Majesty
means to retain Swedish Pomerania, and will not re-
nounce the hope of giving law to Sweden, and thud
degrading, without running any risk, the Swedish
name and charactet. By the phrase 0 civil :ear,"
ou doubtless mean a war between Allies; bbt we
loow the fate to which you destine them.
" If the events which have occurred for these four
months past have induced you to throw upon your
Generals the disarming and the sending of the Swe-
dish troops of Pomerania • as prisoners of war into
France, it will not be so easy to find a pretext to
Sheer na your Majesty never wished to confirm the
judgments of the Council of Prizes ; and that you
did not make particular *sceptical, against Sweden,
even when that tribunal decided in our favour. Be-
tides, Sire, no one in Europe will mistioderstand the
blame which you threw upon your Generals.
vs The note of the King's )(mister for Foreign
Affairs, and the answer which M. de Cabre returned
on the 4th of January, 1812, will prove to yogi. Sire,
that his Majesty had even anticipated your wishes by
setting at liberty all the crews of the privateers. The
Government afterwards carried its consideration so
far as to send back tome Portuguese, Algeriues, and
Negroes, who, taken on board the same privateers,
celled themselves the subjects of your Majesty. There
could not be the slightest reason, therefore, why your
Majesty should nos have ordered the return of the
Swedish officers and soldiers, and yet they still grain
under confinement.
" With regard to the threats contained in the Note
of the Duke of Bassano, and the 40,000 men whom
your Majesty intends giving
.to Denmark, I do not
think it becomes me to enter into discuuions on these
subjects, and the rather because I doubt very much
whether the King o Denmark can avail himself of
that succour.
" With regard tomy personal ambition—it is lofty.
I acknowledge it: it has for object to serve the cause
of humanity, and to secure the independence of the
Scandinavian Peninsula : to attain that end, I confide
in the justice of that cause which the King has com-
manded me to defend, upon the perseverance of the
nation, and the fidelity of its Allies.
(Signed) " =ARMS JZAN."
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ToePiitz. the Sitt;ot/sugust,after gl uig hi detail 4
af.e destruction of Vattdatnme's corps, proceeds *1
. follows : • •
„.Colonel Mensclott is. operating with, tbi tsesi
effects in the rear of the enemy. He has cut 'oir 'the'
_F nuriers, taken some prisoners, dispersed several
sions of cavalry sent against him, end keeps the gar,
rison of Lejpiick, 8000 strong, in such a state of;
aim) that they dare not make. gay mcieinneht.'"
44 How-quarters, at Twilit?, September 1,
at six in the evening. •
This motheht a courier' has arrived from General
blucher, with new accounts of Ms Victory.
Of the French army, 80,000 strong, which was
destined against Silesia, scarcely 10,000 are in -an
organised state ; the remainder are disbanded. Fif-'1
teen thousand prisoners, 92 cannon, SOO ammunition
waggons, and four eagles, are in the hands of the
conqueror. The remainder are either killed, wound."'
ed or dispersed : the swollen waters of theßober alone,
prevented the complete destruction of the enemy.
" The whole division of Puthod was destroyed be-'
fore Lowenberg ; it fell, with its General, and all
the officers of its Staff, at iss head, into the hands of
General Langeron ; what were not made prisoners
were drowned in the Bober. The army of Marshal