The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-09-23
CVoLuME 8.

| low up our rejection by an act of affected genc-
| rohty, Tending back the Ruflian prifoners as he
| did lat war;, during the reign of the Emperor
Paul. Such, we have no doubt, is the inidnus
policy ofthe :Corfcan it would be wiier, there
fore, we think, in our ninifters, to defca, it by
cheerful & ready acquiefcence in his demand,
and by generous determination on our part
to give back an equal number of French priion.
ers tor an equal number of Ruilians. Undoubt-
edly we ihould thereby furnlh France with the
means OF equipping feventeen or eighteen fail
OF the line but fuch an augmentation, or dou-
Ole that augmentation of naval force, cannot
produce any ferrous apprehension on our part
whereas the favorable impreilon iiiGh an act of
!iherality would make upon the Ruifian yoycrp-
ment, would be deep and permanent.
SrsAtsuND, June %.
The circumstances in which we find otrrfelyes
and particularly the rafting or the Pomeranian
militia, in coufcqu-nce of the difficulties which
this meafure has encountered, have produced
change of the government and contribution of
the country. The King of Sweden, believing
that he had reafon 90 complain of the conduct
Of the Regency and States ofUpper Porerania
on this location, has not only declared thefc
authorities diflolved, hut has, at the fame time,
annul'ed the contribution which governed the
German States ofhis Maiefty.
The King, after having pronounced This diff.
fo'ution of the faid bodies, and abrogated the
Pomeranian contribution, has decreed, that his
German poiieiions f,al he governed by the
laws in force in the kingdom of Sweden. and
hat the Pofneranians 6 Swedes iliall henceforth
form one people.
Inrie political changes have commenced by
the depofiton of the members of the Regency
of the Duchy, who have been deprived of their
functions by royal order of the 18th Infant.
ms order contained in letter adore fed on the
lame day, By his Majefy to the Governour-
Gen. Baron d'Efen, was publicly communicate
ed next day by the Governour to the members
OF the Regency. The military Chief of Swecii(h
Pomerania, conformably to the ulteriour plea
lure OF the King, has, at the fame time, afTum-
ed the civil government of this province Two
days after, he addrencd the following Procla.
nation to the inhabitants
BY order ofbis Majefr the King of Szvedeu, =.
Year Henri Baroa d'EBFw, makes kuosyn, Sc.
his N1tJetty, my mot gracious King and
Sovereign, having condcfcended to appoint me
to cauie to be puhliihed, general Proclamation
relative TO the fuppreilion of the Pomeranian
Regency (; that | may fulfil this order, make
known to all the inhabitants that i IS Maietv
has Informed me, Ivy a letter of the 18th inf
that he learned, with furpriie and diGoIeaflre.
that, during the deliberations which lately took
place on the fnblett Of the Appeal minated by
the States again!t the organization of provincial
militia in Pomerania, the major part ofthe mem.
ners OF The Regency were chargeahIe with Gull
pablo diobedienoe, in completely dcpsrt;nc
from the order preicribed by his Maiety that
ms maleity the King, in order TO prevent GniIar
icenes from being renewed in future, has iudgrd
x p'@p,' i" ,iiioive me pomeranian Regency
and to charge me, in confequence, with the foe
execution of his orders, in future, throuphont
all his German States. The aforeGaid letter of
his Majeity was publicly read On the 10th inf
III Preience of the ci-devant members of the Re-
gency their functions Immediately ceaIed.
=" In virtue OF the powers with which his Ma
Ieity the King has Unveiled me, il the manner A.
toreiad, give public notice to all the inhabi-
tantS of Pomerania, that they conform them
felves to this Royal Ordinance, and, in conf.
quence, addreis to me all thof- papers which
would formerly have been prefented to the c;-
devant Regency, but TO fend, notwitbffandng.
duplicates to the Archives ofthat Regency.
" Done in the Fortrefs of Stralund Jn,e o,
(o'Ghed) BARON D'ESSEN,
81 c. SHINING"
The Regency of the country being Denoted.
and the military GOVERNOR already in poGc0i.
on OF his functions, his Majety, on the goth
of June, addreHed A fecond letter to him. hv
which his MajeRy abolirhcd the conff;,n,;onn
and dillolved the States of the Province. in or,
der that they fhouId be replaced by the laws
and the constitutional authorities of Sweden
Here follows the letter, which put the Ian hand
to tbefe remarkable changes, and which has
been publiihed entire =
With concern we have long fnce perceived
that all the PAIN and focitude that we have been
engaged in for the PROPERTY ofour faithful Po-
meranlan fnbjeGts, have met with nnexpeeted
difficulties in their execution which have Ell
Their prevented the fuI6iment of our benevolent
views, or retarded their effects by continual de-
lays, and recourfe upon every location to an
cient privileges. We are the more Convinced
of the imperfettions Of The prefeut contribution,
from the confederation of the rapid proerefs Of
induftry, and the increafe Of population. in
thofe countries where all thofe obfacIss have
ceafed, which hitherto have deprived our Ger
man States Of thoGe fources of profperity 70 me-
celfary to well organized Gate. we have
lately had frefh proof Of the dangerous concs-
qvences of the prelent order of things our or
der for rafting the Pomeranian militia, in conG.-
quence Of very unfuitablc Interpretation, has
been referred by the States to the examination
of the tribunals of the empire, ut a time when
the enemy threatened the frontiers of the coun-
try.
The confederation ofthefe important motives:
the late events which have occurred-and de-
fire to coniolidate the fecurity of the country.
have reduced us to the neceflity of declaring.
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