The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-11-24
FROM THE LGNDOW GLOBE.
STATE OF SWEDEN.

While the final results Of the neeociatjon
carrying on in the vicinity of Vieuna. still
remain IN suspense and while ministers
mere at home are expiring amidst their own
weakness, dissensi.ns, and appropriately it
may not be nninteresting 90 take short sur
vey of the greac events which have recently
taken place in the north of Europe Though
more rercOte, and of less immediate interest,
than the transactions in Germany, Spain g
Holland, they nevertheless bear the same
revolutionary stamp and character, which
distinguish, throughout every part OF the
continent, the commencement of the nine
teenth century. Ronaparte, indeed the
scourSe OF 80 many nations. mas no been the
instrument OF the depos ',n OF {, ) rs The
fourth, which appears L ave ,eeG efir cted
altogether by internal and national causes
| We may compassionate ,he ind vid,al fate
OF that unfortunate prince but we must i'm
partially confess the urgency and force f
mat political necessity which produced his
tall. 1t was not, indeed 30 much the am
bition a his uncle. the duke of Sudermam'a a,
as the series or errors and calamlties tb,t
marked Gustavus's government, which nave
paced Charles the XIIIth on the throne of
his nephew. Hi.tory does not record any
revolution which has been effected with So
little violence, opposition, or resistance. -
Inc nation, weary ot the NAL administration
OF its sovereign, seems unanimously to have
Withdrawn their allegiance to his person
and TO have called his un, lie TO assume The
trst place in the state. Gustavus, uniyer
sally abandoned. is already Forgotten. So
completely, indeed is he destitute of ,tnDor-
ters, 4 lends, or adherents. that it Is pro
nable, Ill him. the assertion of the prisons
and graves of Kings be'Eg always coutIgu
Gus, will not be verified or realized III ;
ins'g"ltlcance 81 cures him from further D,.r
secu'loH, and will indnce the States of S,qe
Den 10 allow h m to reside as IN individual
without the limits of Swedish dominions
If however Charles the .XIIIth ha. found
1t So easy to ascend the throne he seems 10
nave rHrerieucld and he IS likely to meet
the most serious obstac 'eS i'll maintaining the
Pierogatives OF the Crown, and sill more, ia
extricatlng the country from that abyss of
misfortune, into watch the imprudent per
tlnacity IT his predecessor has plunged it,
Even The succession to The sovereignty self
lS up to the present time, unascertained aud
uncertain. The new King declining in years
and destitute OF issue, may say of the States
as MACBETH said to the wi ches--
" Upon my head they paced frutless
crown.
" And put barren sceptre in my grippe -
In order t. remedy th, extraordinary evil.
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terally related to the regning Swedish
House. has been solemnly invited to ACCEPT
the crown, ON the demise of his present ma
jesty. Christian Augustus, on whom thu,
Choice has fallen, is only a soldier of fos
tune, in the service OF Denmark his eide
| brother, Frederick, the reignng Duke, hav
| ing married sister of Frederick the With. &
| a niece of George the ii a. NJ, does il vet
appear, tn II the Prince who is NiCerny OF
Governor General Of Norway, has given
Their than qualified acceptance Of the dig
nifty and Kingdom thus rendered him, rcfe.
ring his complete acquiesCence or comsen'
to the time when peace shall BE re establ sh
| ed between the crowns of Denmark and o.
| Sweden.
That peace cannot, indeed, be in all pro
ba0iiity, either very remote, or mpeded b.
! any serious difficulties but far more ar
duGuS and painful task for the new Swedish
king, - to obtain from Russia such terms as
may leav" to him, ard to his people, an,
| shadow OF security or of inGo peGdence.-
sweden, ~ 1909, presents, indeed. only the
emaciated remains of departed power aud
| greatness. Scarcely century ago, in 1909
| before the battle Of Pufuwa, Charles XII
possessed not Only Finland and Carelia, Blu,
| al the rich provinces that extend from
| thence TO the mouhs Of the Vstula and or
the Oder Even the ground upon which
Petersburg itselfis built was part of his do
| minions The Durhy Of Pomeranra. add
| considerable territories in Lower Saxopv
| along the bank of the Elbe, which had been
coded aud confirmed toSwedeh by the peace
Ut Westphal,a, rendered the kings 81 that
| country powerful members Of the German
Empire. Charles XIII is now reduced Ia
the possession Of that SLENDER, sterile and