Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-11-28

room Of the hon. w. Pole, ard even that
cannot be considered a new requirement..
/ In fact, the Premier is more naked and de-
serted than he even appears to be; for the
few changes that hNe.taken place have hot
introduced new friend, and even Of some
~of his colleagues who:remain in office, they
sere more for shew than uses; as earl Bath
urst, earl Camden, andlord i. Cover, on
" retain their seals until their successors
are appointed. Intact, as we stated some
days ago, the earl of Liverpool, lord FL
don and Percival, are the only members OF
the cabinet who are determined to stay -un-
til they are driven out. Thus, sMr. PERCH
walls ministry resembles besieged town,
with straitened garrison, IN which the
commander is reduced to every possible ex
pedient 10 mask his weakness and impose
upon the besieger; for which purpose we
find, from military history, ,jackboots are
sometimes planted so as to look like guns,
and the men are ordered to present them
selves upon the walls occasionally, in new
uniforms, that their numbers may thus be
multiplied inthe eyes Of the enemy.
we have made some further extracts
from the German papers to the 9Th instant,
received on Saturday. The treaty of peace
between Sweden and Russia, was signed on
the 17th, at Frederieksham, and its rati6-
cationis to be exchanged at Petrrsburgh
within four weeks. The king of Sweden
has engaged by it to exclude Ill English YES
sells, of every description, from his ports,
but has reserved to himself the importation
OF salt and colonial produce. He has also
surrendered 10 Russia the whole Swedish
territories On the east of the Guiph Of
Bothna, as far as Tornea, including Ia
vestland, Finland proper, East >Bothnia,
& c. together with the Isle of Alaucl, the
western frontier Of r ussia, being in future
to be Termed Alaud Half, the ssreight be-
tween Sweden and the Isle of Alaud, the
Bothnia Gulph, and the rivers Tornca and
Munio, to the confines Of Norway. These
conditions are not merely hunlllatIng, ON
account o. the great extent OF territory thus
severed from the crown Of Sweden, but be.
cause they are destructive of the security
and Independence Of what's left to it as,
from the moment the surrendered provin-
ces are organised and properly reduced uR-
der the subsection OF Russia, twill be 10
her power, a: any time, to penetrate into
the very hear, of Sweden proper, by an In
vasion by sea from Alaud, cooperating
with the force marching by land along the
coast from Tornea. The king Of Sweden
feels and admits that these conditions are
humliating sand degrading; bat he says
that the exhausted state of the country did
not warrant the hope Of favorable terms and
that for what is left to it, the natien is in
debted to the late revolutions, which placed
him on the throne.
October 10.
dispatches were received yesterday at
the Foreign Office, from Flushing. We
understand that.the sickness of our troops |
is decreasing, and tina, the building Of bar
racks, and other measures for the retention
and protection of the island, was in full &C
tivity. Government have issued orders for
replacing the buoys at the entrance of the
Scheldt.
Weunderstand that Mr.. Robert Dundas
Saunders arrived in town yesterday to at.
tend the lsvee this day, when he will be
presented with the seals of the war depart
ment.
i We understand MFR. Cook, late under
secretary of state to lord Casslereagh, is
TO succeed MIR. Huskisson, as secretary to
ahe treasury.
"A very strange rumor was in circulation
yesterday, to which weare not disposed to
give the least credence, that marquis Wei
lesleyihad received Instructions from minis
tsrs 70 leave Seville, and to proceed by Ma
,drid, Bayonne, and Bordeaux, TO Paris, to
terminate anegociation already commenced
for the re-establshment of peace between
France aud this country. We believe this
rlluanr to have been anronorated for stock