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.VIPEEN AND FRANCE.

iMPORTANT STATE PAPERS.—Continued from our last.
DoCUMENTS JOINED TO THE REPORT TO HIS
MAJE'TY THE KING OF SWEDEN, BY HIS MINISTER
OF STA'I E AND FOREIGN AFFIIRS, DATED STOCK.
lIOLM, JANUARY 7, 1813.
No. f.

rrract of a Dispatch to the King, from 'Baron de lauterbjelke,
Swedish Minister at I'aris, dated October 46, 1810.
" Notwithstanding all the personal prejudices of which I had-
been the object, it would have been easy for me to have pre
p.red myself against a serve but little agreeable.
P 41 The nature of my conferences with the Duke of Cadore—
the precipitate conduct of M. de Czernicheff—the catastrophe
which Switzerland saw.herself threatened for commercial affairs
—the advantages gained in Portugal, of which it was, no doubt,
• -int. iickil !'o profit, to bear down the English on all points at once
.—all these circumstances united, had given me sufficient insight
to judge what the object of the audience would be; but I ac-
litiowiedgu that I did not expect so violent an explosion. I had
A. vet beheld the Emperor in anger, but be was so at this time,
. to a point which surpassed all imagination.
.0 I was introduced a little after nine o'clock in the morning.
I found the Duke of Cadore with the Emperor, and the presence
of this third person caused me at first to suppose that I had been
called to hear an official declaration, hut that I would not be per-
Suited to attend the discussion. I nevertheless resolved to reply
on every occasion where I could bring a word in. It is impos-
Able fur me to rends'. your Majesty an account of all the Dupe-
', tor said during the space of at least an hour and a quarter,
because hie agitation was so great, his discourse so broken, his
tepetitinns so frequent, that it was extremely difficult to class
them all in my memory.
- " I began I y presenting your Majesty's letters. 'Do you
know,' said the Emperor, ' what is the subject of this letter ?'—
. I explained it, with adding a compliment. Wit! out any reply
!hereto, the Emperor wrist on. Every break in the Emperor's
discourse will sufficiently explain to your Majesty the nature of
the short replies which 1 endeavoured to make in the interval.
" Oh, oh ! Monsieur, the Baron, do they, at length, cease
110 believe in Sweden that lam merely a dupe : De they think
that I can accommodate myeelf to this mixed or half state of
thin,.
l' Oh! give me no sentiments; it is from facts that we draw
oar proofs in matters of politics. let us see these facts. You
signed the peace within the beginning of this year; you engaged
kourselves to break off all communication with England; you
ept a Minister tn London, and an English agent in Sweden, till
summer was advanced; you did not interrupt the ostensible
communication by the way of Gottenburgh till still later, and
what was the result of it ?—that the correspondence remained
the same, neither more nor less active.—Foh! the question is not
of a communication by this way or by that , it is regular, it is
very considerable. You have vessels in all the ports of England.
Salt truly ! Do you get salt in the Thames ? The English trading
vessels besiege Gottetiliergh : a fine proof that they do not enter
them 1 hey exchange their merchandises in the open sea, or
near to the coats. Your Intle islands serve as magazines in the
• whiter season ; ur insiels openly carry colonial produce into
Germany ; I have caused half a score of them to be seized at
Rostock. Is it possible that one can affect thus to be mistaken
ohi the first principle of the continental system ? Very well—
you do no: approve of this in your note; It is not of that I corn-
" pain, it is of the fact. I have not slept a single hour ht the night,
en account of your affairs ; you might suffer me to repose in
peace —I have need of it.
" Again—ls this restitution of the English prisoners a proper
thing ?—those who had a.: impudently attempted the dignity of
the K;rig, and volated his territory? Restore without any
satir action ! Was it noz se, Monsieur de Cadore ? [The Mi-
abuts, all in tremulaiion, did slot omit rtplyii g ..tirmatively to
this, as s"ell as to some other similar quits ions.) Another viola-
tion of territorial right is the capture of a French privatser in
the interior of the port of Stralsund; but to tur, notliiiig has
been rendered l'
ss It is not to one's frier is that one thews these little atten-
- Hone ! Very well ; remain with the English ! If one were to
Judge front the evil a hick you have done me this very year, you
never could have been better friends to the English than at this
moment. Oh ! oh ! his you teat tell me so! It is you who as-
sure me tha: Sweden wishes rather to remain on my vide; but
proofs, I say, give me proofs ! Very well; your state at the end
of an unfortunate is ar required some circumspection and pre-
caofion, Well, I have had theta to my loss; you have cajoled
me; yes, you—you yourself. You. have had the address to gain
the bad season ; you have time to settle your Interests with Eng-
land. Ts it just that if any engagements exist contra: yto faith,
that lam to bear the burden ? You have had time to put your-
selves in a state of defence, you have still the winter befur.: you.v
What then have you to risk?—Yes, the export trade, that Is the
battle horse; wl.at then is become of the neutral flag ? There
;re nn longer any neutrals. England acknowledges none, nor can
I acknowledge them any longer. Salt, aye, salt! one can find
}nears tp obtain what is necessary. How did you do in 1801,
when you woe in open rupture with England P—Suffer !Do you
not believe that I suffer too ? that France, that Bourdeaux, that
No.iand, tha- Germany, suffer? But this is precisely what an
end nibs; be put to a maritime peace at any price !—[Here the
*.ii peror was violently agitated.]
't Yes, Sweden is the sole cause of the crisis I experience.—
Ina e.ten has done me mote harm than five coalitions together.
}a .r n:.se, restored to Ler cemmunitations with the rest of Ea-
gone, st:e has taken advantage of it to carry on the commerce
tot England. ,O, Sir, tinie I always time ; I have lost too much
time. it was necessary, you sa-d, to enter into the new system
ivithout making too many sacrifices— it was also necessary for
vie, you added, to do some good for Sweden. Hear me! When
you made choice of the Prince of Potato Corvo, did I risk nothing
$n permitting him to accept the offer? Was I not on the point
pc end roiling myself with Russia I Was it not believed; is It
pot perhaps still believed, that you on your side, and the Saxons
pod Poles on the other, supported by me, would arm to MOH.
titier their lost provinces? Were net men's minds then much
g-tated In Poland? What did I .!o then? I caused such thiils
to be said, such reports to be circulated, as might detach Russia
from my system. It is only now, that more and more uodeceived
ash respect to Swedish politica, I have taken a decisive step,
;
hich I will not conceal from you. I have sent back M. de
ztriticheff to Russia. I have informed him of the declaration
in
fetch I have made to you tc•Klay. I have strorgly pressed t:ie
?sr or Alexander to take the same step on his part. Choose!
2aiirton must be fired on the English which approach your coasts,
Ind !lois merchandise in Sweden be. confiscated, or you must
lave war with Fraser. I cannot do you any great harm ; I oc-
tipy l'omerau'a, and you do not much care about it; but I can
Muse you to be attacktal by the Russians and by the Dams, and
.can confiscate all your vessels on the Continent; and I will do
:; if within i 5 days you are not at war with England. Yes, you
re right ; the time for the mans and returning of the courier
Inv be reckoned, and something more.
}.' Here, M. de Cadore, I order you to send off a ccnrier int-
iediately, and you, Sir, will do the same. If within five days
i..r the official act of ii. Alqiiter, the King has not rtsolved to
at war with Ergland, M. Alquier shall set out immediately,
d Sweden shall have war vri.h France stud all her allies. Yes,
is just; I have nut positively demanded the state of war before
cis moment, but I am row forced to itby all imaginable means.
ir woe Ins already found that she gaunt remain in a mixed
ate with England, doing great injury to the Continent. At
tug-h things have taken a general slevelopernent, which reqoirts
perfect equality of measures, or a r ate of open hostility. This
what ail other Powers have thought ought to be done. Rua-
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