The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-29
From the Boston Globe.

From the Boston Globe
 @ MES kaleidoscopio changes H. @ iustrated in the visit of Prince
 William of Sweden. who was entertained in part by descendants of the kin of old Peter Stuyvesant. who de- stroyed the transient connection of swe- den with the colonial history of the United States by driving the Swedish colonists out of the country in the middle of the seventeenth century
 The young gentleman who will be enter tained by the city of Boston today ana tomorrow. is not, of course, nneal descendant of the royal house of Sweden that occupied the throne in those days, but he must be familiar with the hts- tory of his country and he must have been interested In meeting the descendants of the houses of Stuyvesant, Beekman,i Fish and Livingston, who were of the family of Peter Stuyvesarit. the testy but vigorous Dutch governor Of New Amsterdam 25O years ago.
 There was time when the Swedes were making an heroic effort to colonize permanently in America. Just 270 years ago the Swedish West Indian company sent out a colony of Swedes and Films who arrived early the next year. and, purchasing all the lands from Cape Henlo- pen to the falls near Trenton. erected fort at the mouth of Christina creek.
 They named the county New Sweden, or, in their own tongue, Nya Sveriga. Subsequently they settled mostly within the present limits of Pennsylvania. The Dutch claimed the country by right of discovery and settlement, and they pre- pared for the expulsion of the intruders.
 The struggle did not last long, the Swedish forts were reduced and all the colonists who refused allegiance to Hol- land were sent to Europe.
 Sweden at that period was one of the greatest nations of Europe. Her powerful monarch, Gustavus Adolphus, was dead. but his brilliant daughter, Christina, who succeeded him, had made her court famous by inviting to it the greatest scholars and philosophers of the time. and when she abdicated 1t was in favor of her cousin. Charles x. who made Europe ring with his military exploits.
 Charles XI, who came after him, proved himself an administrative genius. and he was succeeded by the most brilliant though not the greatest figure in Swedish history, Charles XII. who, If he had concluded peace at the height of his suc- cess, could have been for many years by far the mightiest potentate in North ern Europe.
 +H,f al that Rng- sia emerged as a united and growing state. and that Prussia began to display some of those qualities which ultimately made her supreme in Germany, while the house of Brunswick occupied the throne of Great Britain Sweden's glory de- clined coincidently with the ascension of these powers.
 It is interesting to note that the acqui- sition of Norway which was one of the dreams of Charles XII, was realized by the ancestor of our royal visitor, Prince William, the F'ernch Marshal Bernadotte, who was invested with the crown of Sweden a
 Charles XIII, who reigned in the period that covered the rise to its utmost height. and the total downfall of the power of Napoleon Bonaparte, was childless and German prince was elected to be his sue cessor. The prince died and Sweden astonished Europe by asking Marshal Bernadotte to become heir to the throne.
 Napoleon distrusted his marshal, but he consented to the arrangement. an1 Bernadotte, who was a man of vigor and resource, made himself the real ruler of Sweden.
 Napoleon was enraged at this course. He treated Sweden almost as a conquered country and made her declare war against England Bernadotte worked quietly to effect the independence of his adopted country and made an alliance with Rus sia.
 He co-operated with the powers that were striving finally to crush Napolean but he was not willing to strike de- cisive blow at his mother country. France, and for this reason he was regarded with suspicion by the allies
 Bernadotte never was really popular ID