The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-10-26

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FRENCH, LICENSED TRADE.
General MoLITeR has given to the Gus
tom House Officers on the rivers Rt6e, NE
ser, aud Jade. copies of Imheriai Iastrucd.
ons respecting vessels having French Licen-
ces. These instructions contain IL ARTICLES
They prescribe. that every vessel must h1ys
them; and must sail from Hamburg, Bre-
men. or Lubbock, for Dunkirk Nantes or
Bonrdeau,~-Sxty francs per ton must
be paid for licepce. The sixth article
says,
The vessels provided with licences may
proceed direct TO their port of destination in
France without being liable to be questioned
! for having been visited by English men of war
or priva,eers.-They may even land in
port of England the whole, or such part as
they may think proper, OF their cargo, with
out being questioned for having touched in
| England"
| Licenced vessels may enter the above
French ports loaded, or in ballast but their
| loading must be of the materials of the North
useful TO the Marine, or with such protluc
| tons of the soil of Germany and Poland, as
| are usually permitted to be imported into
France. They may load out with wines.
brandies, French manufactures and produce.
excepting grain and -four. A Iicence is valid
only for one voyage. Vessels sailing from
Hamburg, Bremen or Lubbock with timber,
| and articles for ship building, are permitted
| to apply to the French Custom House Off
GERS respecting the disposal of their car
| goes.
The Baron DE KoLLI, who attempted
| 70 carry off FERDINAND 9TH is now in Lon.
don.
/
The King of Sweden, in the following
speech, delivered to the Diet, on the 18th
OF August. proposed the Prince of Ponte
Corvo (BERNADoTTE) as proper per-
son to be chosen Crown Prince of Sweden.
| AT period when, after long Session
the last Diet separated. the fairest prospect
OF peace opened for Sweden after long
series OF severe msfortpnes, lasting tran
guilty seemed to have obtained for this king
dom. Three Treaties of Peace had secur-
ed the dominion which remained at the end
lot obstructive war, and generous Prince,
placed near the Throne, promised power.
fully to support the constitution formed by
the states of the Empire. and every thing
promised to well disposed Swedish citizens
certain 'ndemnifcation for past misfortunes.
His Royal Majesty fondly shared in the
pleasing hope III which his faithful subjects
INDUCED on this head, when one of those I'M
respected blows with which Providence at
times destroys the hopes of men, annihilated
onrs.-The Crown Prince Charles Angus
tus was no more, and his death shrouded
the future destinies of Sweden in dreadful
gloom. His Royal Majesty, with mind
deeply affected by a loss. universally so Sc
verey felt, yet mindful of his royal daty
contemplated the state of public affairs, and
felt thoroughly convinced, that for the pre-
servation OF the Independence of the Swe-
dish empire, it became indispensibly neces-
sary to secure, without the least delay, the
succession to the Throne, which appeared to
| him the only means of preserving the tran
guilty OF the Empire, by a firm and wise
government, founded on the fundamental
| laws of the constitution of our country
| Deeply impressed with those sentiments,
his Majesty perceived with pleasure that
the voice of his people, equally aware of the
necessity speedily TO choose successor to
the Swedish Throne, loudly and unanimously
! declared In favor of the Prince of PoHte Cor
vo Brilian. exploits have illustrated his
name as warrior, at the same time that
eminent talents mark him one of the most
skliful statesmen OF our age. Universally
admired for the probty of his character and
the mildnsss of his temper, he found oppor
tunities even in the midst of the mstortunes
OF war, to sheW his attachment to the Swe
dish nation by the kind and friendly manner
in Which he treated the Swedish officers and
soldiers whom the chance of war subjected
to his power. All these circumstances and
Considerations could not but fix his Majesty 8
attention and determine his resolution, when
the question was, to propose successor to
the swedish Throne.
! yet his Royal Majesty has not failed TO
take on this important question the sense of
the states OF the empire, and of the secret
committee of the Council OF State, large
majority of the former, and the unanimous
opinions OF the latter perfectly conceded with
his Majesly's sentiments on this point. His
! Royal Majesty thinks that by confding the
future destinies of Sweden to the Prince of
Ponte Corvo, his well earned military fame,
while on the one side 1t secured the indepen.
dence of the state, will on the other hand
render it supeffiuous for him to engage in
fresh wars 4; that his strong mind, tutored
| by long experience, will maintain national
| tranquility and order, and secure to our
! faithful subjects a long and undistuibed en-
tjoyment OF the blessings of peace and last
! ly that his son will remove i'm future times
that uncertainty of succession TO the throne
which some late lamentable events have
rendered still more important to IS coun
try.
+" From all these considerations his Royal
! Majesty feels obliged to propose to the as
sembled states OF the empire, his Serene
Highncss John Baptist Julian Bernadotte
Prince OF Ponte Corvo, as crown Prince OF
Sweden, and his Royal Mosjesty's successor
to the Swedish Throne. Ills Royal Majesty
must, however. expressly add the reservati
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