The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-05-30
EUROPE.
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don for New York, has put into New Londot,
| IN distress. She left London on the 18th oi
March, and the Downs on the 3Oth. Captain
Robert M. Steel, who came passenger i'm her
| arrived in town on Saturday evening, and
mas obligingly furnished the Editor Of the
mercantile Advertiser, with London papers
to the 29th of March inclusive, 4 DAYS later
than our previous advices, and more impor.
| tant than any we have for a long time rcceiy.
| ed from the Continent of Europe
In the English House of Lords, on ths 9th
OF March. Lord Selkirk gave notice, that aft
ter the recess he would submit a motion to
the House on the subject of Mr.. Roses mis-
sion to the governmeneof the U. States.
From London Pahers TO the 2efh March re-
ceiped at the office efthr Mercantile .4d-
Dcffiser.
LONDON. March 81.
Another important event is TO be added TO
the many that have occurred of late years !:
a revolution has broken out in Sweden, and
me gallant monarch has been deposed. His
Uncle has seized the reins of Government,
and IN proclamation addressed to the peo-
pie, declares his nephew incapable of con
Quoting the affairs of the nation. The details
OF this revolution we have not vet received
1t was probably concerted by the duke of Su-
uermanla and some OF the Mobiles at Stock
holm, with the Commanders of the Troops
on the frontiers of Norway. The revoluti
onary symptoms developed themselves first
among the troops. The want of clothing and
provisions had created great discomfort,
which was fomented by the commander i'm
Chief, who broke up from his position, and
began his march for Stockholm to demand a
Diet OF the States. On their march they
published proclamation in which they sta
ted that their views were merely these that
the states OF the Realm, and the legislatures
snail be at liberty to assemble and delibe-
rate without controul. The proclamation
then draws Il picture of the wretched state
OF Sweden; and in speaking of Great Britain
and Fraisce. says, that the former, the ally
OF Sweden, shall learn to appreciate and va
lue nation which knows how to break it's
! letters, and that the latter shall be taught to
lreSpeCt 'eople anxious to rival her militia
| ny powers The proclamation contains so
Tenn declaration, that not "A single inch more
OF Swedish territory shall be gwen up to the
enemy. The duke of Sudermania, not wait
| ing tor the meeting of the States, deposed the
Ming by his own authority, and assumed the
government His majesty was put under ar
rest, AS he was about to sci out for his coun-
try residence. When the guard surrounded
ann, he drew his sword. but he was SOON o.
empowered. and when the last advices lef,
stockholm, he was close prisoner
mat THIS revolution has been of French
cohtriVahce, we are not able to pronounce,
Though many will be inclined to suspect that
| IT S.-oince the revolution OF 1879, brought
about by the deposed monarch's father. a
considerable degree ofdscontept has existed
among the n ooies, whose authority was con-
ssoeraoy abridged. The Revolution too de-
stroyed the influence which the Russian and
French parties had over the councils of Swe
den, an influence SO injurious to the real inter-
eHts ana dignity OF the country. The recent
disasters III FINLAND, the severity of the win
'er' ana the loss OF commerce, occasioned by
tbe shutting up OF the ports of the continent,
had produced discomfort which was indus
trious!y encouraged by the indictments.
Great eccentricitIes ofcbaracter his Swedish
Majesty certainly had he was violent, he
was impatient, and acted,to much, perhaps
rom me impulse OF his passions; but it was in
deed, an act ofinjustice to impute to him the
ihiscrles OF Sweden, or the loss of her terri
tories. Had he chosen perhaps to have bent
the knee to Bonaparte to ha We acknowledge
ed himself hrs vassal to have crawled in his
Train with the servile herd of Rhenish Prin-
ces-had he linked himself in the same fet-
'ers with the kings OF Wirtemberg and Ba-
varia he might have been permitted to have
kept fomeranIa on the condition however
Oh carrying on no trade with Great Britain.
hat he did not SO debase himself will never
DC imputed to him as fault by. any Swede,
who is friend to the independence and free
dom OF ms country. Is the war with Russia
to be imputed tohim as crime, He did not
provoke 1T. 1t was begun by Russia against
every principle of honour and Justice; his
Swedish Majesty could not have avoided it,
unless he had consented to disgrace himself
ana the people over whom he ruled by the
most abJect submission. That he did not de
lend Finland as long as it could be defended
--tnat ne did not dispute every inch of ground
against a superior force, will not be said e.
ven by MS bitteTest enemy. That the war,
and the severity OF the season, produced ex-
IRENE misery, is most true, but they were not
occasloned by the king. He exercised the
right which God and nature give all Sove-
relgns, OF defending their territories against
any enemy who may attack them. He has
failed, however, in the struggle, & the fall of
another lawful Sovereign will add another tri-
umph to themany achieved by Bonaparte o.
yer the principles OF legitimacy, freedom and
justice. The King of Sweden has thus in
some degree had the fate of Hamlet's father
Upon my secure hour, thy uncle stole. "--He
has been deprived of his crown by his uncle
whether the tragedy will be completed by the
death of the deposed monarch, we arc vet to
learn.
The French have retired from the Tagus.
after destroying the bridge of Arcibispo; &
tne opanlards are preparing to follow them.