The Statesman.
London, England, 1806-07-24 00:00:00

has decreed, that. his German possessions b!..a1l he
governed by the liws in force in the kingauin of
Sweden, and that the Pomeranians and Swedes shall
I henceforth farm one people.
These political changes have commenced by the
deposition of the Members of the Regency 01 the
Duchy, orb° have beta deprived of their funftiuhs
by a Royal Order of the lath instant. ibis- Or..
der, contained in a Irtter, &Minted on the same
day, by his Majesty to the Governor Gener:.!,
Baron D'Essen, was publicly communic.net
day by the Governor to the Members of rhc,
gency. The Military Chief of Swedish Puracr.-
ma, conrormably to the ulterior pleasure of tL,..•
King, has, at the same tiny, attuned the Ci‘:i
Government pt.tbis Province. Two days alter, Le
addressed the following PlUsjaa=.l:/;10 to the
bitarits :
av 01111 a Of ME MAJESTY THE ICING or SWITEM. j. jk vit
t asset $ NAPA JeLlita Naftali itstaw:%,
•
His Majesty. any moss gracious King sod Sovereigr,
having condi:al:aided to appoint me to cause bibs pubushee. a
general Proclamation relative to the mippressiois of the PO-
nieranlan Regencf !That I may fulfil tin: Hider, I make known
to all the Inhabitants that his Majesty h.!• infcrnied me, by a
letter of the 18th inst. that he learo.;.l, with .ttpris,::ind
displeasure, that, dutiog the deliberant's which lately sip*
place on the subjea of the Appeal intimated by the St.ites
against the organization of a provincial Militia in Poracranu,
the trakior part of the Members of We Regency were chile.
able. with a culpable disobedience, in wan/le:eh depaaing
troinstbarterier prescribed by his Majesty ; that his Masesiy
the King, in order is prevent Z:r seems t(0111 being te.
nerved
in future, has judged r to &waive the
Nut to criairt 'pc in consequence, With be
sot.: execution of his orders, h 1 (tutu:, throughout alt !is
German Jtstes The aforesaid letter of leis 'Majesty was
publicly mad an t)ie tgth mat. in presence of the ci.anuar
Members of the Regency their tuuctions immediate:l
cease I.

" In virtue of the powers with which his Majesty I/4
King has invested me, in the matiner aforesaid. I Ere ;while
uotice to all the inhabitams of Pomerania, that they ,cutoit
themselves to this Royal Ortionnance, aud, an coustqaci.t:,
address to me all those papers which would torus,;! fine
been presented to the ai.oevaat Regeucy, but to bens, irA.
withsaansluig, duplicates to the Archives of that Regius!.
" Dora ha the Fortress of Stralsund, June st. Ohio.
(Signed) " Iliabaoo D'ASSEN.
1 " J.C. SIN NIG."
The Regency of the country being deposed, and
the Military Goveri:ot already in possession of his
fundions, his Majesty, on the 16th of June, ad.
dressed a second 'Ate' to him, by which his Ma.
jetty abolished the Consutution, and dissolved the
States of the Province, in order that they should be
re.placed by the laws and the Constitutional Autb.i.
rities of Sweden. Here follows die letter, which
put the last hand to these remarkable changes, and
; Which has been published entire :
" Wulf casette we have long .lace perceived, that all the
pain and solicitude that we have been engaged in bar the plow
perity tit our faithful Pomeranian subjects, have met With en.
expeeied difficulties in their execw ion ; which heetteitber pre.
vented the fulfilment of our benevolent views, or retarded dui
erects by continual delays, and a feCO4fOt upon every ores.
mon is ancient privileges. We are the more convinced of the
iniperfettions of the present Constitution, from the considera-
tion of the rapid progress of industry, and the increase of
population, in those countries where all those obstacles have
ceased, which hitherto have deprived our Gentian States of
those sources of prosperity so necessary to a well organized
State. We have Lately lad a fresh proof eif the dangerous
consequences of the present order of *nines: our race for
raising the Pomeranian Militia, in.cOnsequence of a vet), un-
suitable interpretation, has been referred by the States to the
examination of the Tribunals of the Empire, at a time when
the enemy threatened the frontiers of the country.
" The consideration of these impala/A motives—the late
events which have occurred—and a dame to consolidate the
security of the country, have redwood us ti the necessity of
declaring—* That the Constitution which has hitherto go-
verned out Geimaa States Jo cease hose this day; that the
Provincial States and Connell. are dissolved; and that all in.
stitutions :dative thereto be abolished forever.' But if, on the
one hand, we have been forced to take this resolution, on ere
other, we wish to prove, that Mr only design is to bailiff Ct
future prsperity of our German subjeCt*, and not to insane
to ourselves oppressive rights ; and of .Shia we have thought,
that we could not give a inure convincing pewit than by in-
troduciag the Swedish Constitution into tau German States.
As King of a floe people, and as obiying only the law, we
feel a particular pleasure in preparing a happier fate for our
robjetts et Pottle/mai: and Rum. Equal, both in reped of
their dunes to us, aud in their immunities and ptivileg.i—
proteeted by just laws—they will no 'pager form a body sepa-
rated from the Swedish people, but will; on the contrary
enjoy In fraternal union the benefits of Ot Constitution o loch
has established, for ages, the security of that people.
" We ordain, by this Aa, that the Cosistitutson of the
Kingdom of Owettenot the slit of August, r;;3; the Ads
of ViliCLI and of Secui tty of the list of February, and 3il of
April, 1789; the Privileges and Immunities granted to the
tea Estates of Vt. eden, and the Law or that Kingdom,
be in lutuse the kudemental and ccintinitional laws of
our German States. We ordain, that all the ascessal
dispositions be made to put this At* in execution. Oa
thus occasion we, however, desJare, in the most aoknei
wierwer, to ear Ponieraniati subjects, that they shall never
be aubjetusd, either tee she present, or the future, to the
payment cf the debts of the kingdom of S wettest, or to
the iatiaosts which have relation to it. Moreover, it ear
thing should occur which respects, peculiarly, and properly.
Pomerania and Rugen, and on watch, conformably to the
Swedish Constitution, we ought to bear the Inunble supyh-
calms of the Represeutatives of the country, we will can :e
them in a General Diet, in the country itself, this Cor:•.c.
cation, for which we shall give ulterior orders, shall be I.rli
without delay t and it will give satisfadion snow heart, to
see assembled round our Throne a faithful people sclio, no
!anger led astray by a complicated conseieutien; end fultifilng
the duties of subject:, wall second, by their a,sl,tir:tc, out
PAntiewl efforts for their prosperity, itt which we slues fall
our highest staxelpence.
" From the Royal Head-Quarters at Criefswaltf, litre
1 s 6, slob:
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(Signed) - w G.UST '1 ADO'. PH US."