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ly governments have been respected; and such of their ships as have touched upon our coasts, have been at liberty to continue their voyage, whatever might be their destination,

About 50 American ships driven upon our coasts by successive tem. This pests, have been released. act of justice, founded upon the rights of nations, has been appreciated by the United States and appearances promise us, that better understood relations with their government will facilitate the exportation of the numerous piles of iron with which our public places are now filled.

Political considerations join with the family connection which unites your Majesty and the King of Prussia, to consolidate the relations of friendship that subsist between the two powers.

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The peace with Russia will not be troubled the treaties by which it is cemented are executed both sides with frankness and good faith.

Our relations with the Austrian empire are upon a most amicable footing; the remembrance of glory brings the two nations nearer to each other; and your Majesty will neglect nothing which can Contribute to maintain the reciprocity of confidence and esteem it causes.

If Spain and Portugal should assume a tranquil posture, these countries will offer to Swedish commerce, advantages which would guarantee the perfection of the plans she has commenced for improving her iron mines.

Our intercourse with Southern America has entirely ceased; civil war ravages these fine and unfor

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tunate countries.
have a regular administration, the
produce of the kingdom will find
an advantageous vent there.

The maritime war has interrupt-
ed our commercial relations with
Turkey; but nothing which inte-
rests that ancient friend of Sweden
can be indifferent to your Majesty.

Such, Sire! are the exterior relations of Sweden;-justice and loyalty towards all nations have been the political guides of your Majesty.

The army and the finances,-those two principal guarantees of a state,-have, above all, been the objects of my constant solicitude.

A wise economy has governed the expenditure of the funds des tined for the armaments which the state of war rendered necesssary. This war having great influence upon the exportation of Swedish productions, upon the general proceedings of trade, and the imaginations of merchants, had caused the course of exchange to rise to an exorbitant height. I particu larly directed my attention to stop its this scourge of states; which hav be placed to can ing once broken its dykes, no bounds ravages; by repressing on the one side, stock-jobbing; by carrying into execution the ancient laws against the unlawful exportation of gold and silver; by imposing a duty of transit upon the conveyance of ingots from foreign countries, passing through Sweden; by endeavouring to bring back the nation to the principles of economy which distinguished their ancestors. On the other side, I have endeavoured to give activity to the interior industry and lawful commerce of Sweden.

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I have had the satisfaction of seeing my efforts crowned with Success: and that the course of exchange upon Hamburgh, which in March last was at 130 sk. on the 3d of the present January, was only 84 sk

I have taken measures to render more general the manufacture of linen, and the culture of hemp; to proceed actively in the discovery of new sources for obtaining salt; to continue the clearing of the ground in Dalecarlia ; to establish a new communication with, and and new markets in, Ver eland; to form a company destined to carry on the herring-fishery in the open sea; to augment our commercial reations with Finland; to carry into execution the financial resolutions of the States of the kin dom: to give to the direction of magazines, to those of the customs, and to the island of St. Bartholomew, a fresh or ganization.

The harvest not having proved a good one, I have adopted means to prevent a scarcity, by causing corn to be imported from foreign countries; but in order to prevent such importation influencing the exchange, salt must be exported for grain so received. This exchange will be effected with so much the more felity, as there yet exists a sufficient provision of salt in the country for two years' consumption.

I have with grief observed, that the immoderate use and manufac ture of brandy, by which the general interests are sacrificed to individual ones, corrupt the nation, and will sooner or later inevitably cause a scarcity. I have only employ edexhortations on this subject,

which I have collected from the paternal sentiments of your Majes ty; and I leave it to other times, and to the judgment of the States, to put an end to an evil which, every body acknowledges, continues increasing.

I have paid particular attention to the state and organization of the hospitals, to the religious establishments, and to the means of preventing, or at least of relieving, the condition of mendicity

The interior police and agriculture have not been lost sight of; and a central Academy of agriculture will shortly be established, for the purpose of giving an im pule and an encouragement to the pubic economy, and to scientific knowledge, which will contribute to insure the prosperity of the State.

The works of the canal of Gothland, that grand monument of your Majesty's reign, hive been carried on with great activity. Thos of the canal of Sodertelje, stopped by obstacles which the zealous efforts of the directors have not been able to surmount, have again recommenced with more rapid strides.

I have carried into execution the solemn resolution of the states of the kingdom, sanctioned by your Majesty, regarding the national armament; but, careful not to deprive agriculture of any more arms than are indispensably necessary for the defence of our country, I have merely ordered a levy of 15,000 men, exclusive of the 50,000 which the States had placed at your Majesty's disposal, The most direful errors were carried even into Schonen, where vio lence and a public rebellion threat

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ened for a moment to oppose the execution of the measures ordained. Already did our enemies, or such as are envious of our repose, begin to rejoice at our intestine dissentions; but these were soon suppressed by the united force of the army and the laws; and were succeeded by the return of national sentiment and obedience to their duty. The vacancies in the new enrolment, and in the national armament, are almost entirely filled up; and every measure has been taken to render them useful in this employ. The regular army has been recruited, as is also the whole of the reserve new clothed, and supplied with well conditioned arms, of which sufficient quantities are found in the magazines; and the founderies for arms have obtained a renewed activity. The making of gunpowder and saltpetre has been extended and improved, and the artillery put into a respectable condition.

The pensions granted to officers and soldiers wounded during the war have been either confirmed or augmented. The accounts of the expenses of the late war have been accelerated; and such measures as have been successively adopted, had no other object in view than to render the trops serviceable, and to supply them with the necessaries requisite.

Your Majesty will deign to perceive by this statement that not. withstanding all that the de tractors of Sweden have insinuated on this head, as that it would take sixty years to organize an army of 60,000 men; yet the effecting of this will be apparent in the month of April next, both

to the friends and enemies of your Majesty. The intent of this augmentation of our military force is merely defensive. Without any other ambition than that of preserving her liberty and laws, Sweden will have the means of defending herself, and she can do it. Bounded by the sea on one side, and on the other by inaccessible mountains, it is not solely on the courage of her inhabit nts, nor in the remembrance of her former glory, that she has to seek for the security of her independence; it is rather to be found in her local situation, in her mountains, her forests, in her lakes, and in her frosts. Let her therefore profit by these united advantages; and let her inhabitants be thoroughly persuaded of this truth, that if iron, the produce of their mountains, cultivates their farms, by ploughing up their fields, that it is likewise iron alone, and the firm determination of making use of it, that can defend them.

I have been seconded in my efforts by the good spirit prevalent in the army, and by the zeal and abilities of the public functionaries.

The Magistracy has maintained its ancient reputation; it has painful duties to fulfil, but this has procured it a fresh claim to the general esteem.

The different departments of the Chancery of State have rivalled each other in giving the quickest dispatch, compatible with the formalities required by our laws and customs, to all business which has come under their cognizance.

The Secretary of state's department for Church affairs, hos, since,

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the 17th of March, expedited nearly 600 causes; that of the interior 952; that of finance and commerce 1053; and the wardepartment 2535; The causes in which final decision has not yet been given, and which are confined to a very moderate number in each department, in comparison to the extent coming under their several denominations, are either of such nature as to require your Majesty's decision, or to be again brought forward for final determination.

Should your Majesty deign to recognize in the sketch which I bave laid before you, the desire which has actuated me to deserve the high confidence you haye shewn towards me, this would prove, next to the joy I feel on your Majesty's re-establishment, the most pleasing recompence for all my pains. May Heaven, in accordance with my prayers, lengthen your Majesty's days; and that Sweden, protected by your virtues, Sire, may find an imperishable guarantee for her future destiny, in the absolute devotion which my heart has vowed to your Majesty; in the respectful attachment of my son; in the sanctity of the laws of the state; in the uprightness of the public functionalies; and in the union, the courage, and the patriotism of all Swedes!

With the most sincere sentiments of attachment, and with the most profound respect, I am, Sire, your Majesty's most humble and faithful subject, and good son, C. JOHN,

Palace at Stockholm,

Jan. 7, 1812.

Appointment of the Hereditary Prince of Sicily to the Government a Vicar-General.

The King our Lord, by a reso lution, dated this day, signed by his Majesty, and sealed with the royal seal, has constituted his royal highness Don Francis, hereditary Prince of the Two Sicilies, his most dear son, his Vicar-general in this kingdom of Sicily: transferring to him, with the most ample title of Alter Ego, the exercise of all rights, prerogatives, preeminencies, and powers, in the same manner as they could be exercised by his Majesty in person, In the name of the king I communicate to your Excellency this sovereign determination; transmitting to you also a copy of the same, that you may forthwith communicate it to all the departments depending on the office of Secretary of State, the Royal Household, the Treasury, and Commerce, which are committed to the charge of your Excellency. (Signed)

MARQUIS DE CIRCELLO,

To the Marquis Tomasi.
Palermo. Jan. 16, 1812.

ROYAL LETTER.

Ferdinand, by the grace of God, King of the Two Sicilies, Jerusalem, &c. Infante of Spain, Duke of Parma, Placencia, Castro, &c. Grand Hereditary Prince of Tuscany, &c.

My most esteemed Son Francis,
Hereditary Prince of the
Two Sicilies:-

Being obliged through bodily

indisposition, and from the advice of the Physicians, to breathe the air of the country, and to withdraw myself from all serious application, I should esteem myself culpable before God, if I did not make such provision for the governmeut of the kingdom, in these most difficult times, that affairs of the greatest importance should be promptly dispatched, and the pub. lic weal suffer no detriment through my infirmities. Wishing, therefore, to disburthen myself of the weight of government, as long as it shall not please God to restore me to a state of health suitable for conducting it, I cannot more properly intrust it to any other than to you, my beloved son, as well because you are my legitimate successor, as on account of the experience which I have had of your high rectitude and capacity; and by these presents, with my free will and consent, I constitute and appoint you my Vicar-general in this my kingdom of Sicily, in the same way as you have been already twice Vicar-general in my other kingdom of Naples; and yield and transfer to you with the ample title of Alter Ego, the exercise of all the rights, prerogatives, preeminencies, and powers, which could be exercised by myself: and that this my determination may be known to all, and obeyed by all, I order that this my letter, sigued by myself, and sealed with my Royal seal, be preserved in the archives of the kingdom, and that you direct a copy of it to be sent to all Councillors and Secretaries of State for their informations, and that they thay com

municate the same to all persons interested -Given in Palermo, this 16th day of Jan. 1812.

FERDINAND,

THOMAS DE SOMMA.

Address of the New Spanish Regency to the Nation.

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Spaniards, The Regency, în taking upon themselves the government of the Spanish Monarchy intrusted to them by the Cortes in their decree of the 22d instant could do no less than fix their whole attention on the critical circumstances in which the nation is placed, and on the immensity of their obligations. They do not however, entertain for a single moment the horrible idea that the ferocious enemy who besets us will ultimately accomplish the subjugation of the heroic Spanish people who are now in the 5th year of their glorious resistance. You raised the cry of independence and of vengeance even when deprived of your Princes,when your laws and institutions were trampled under foot,-when destitute of resources, and without either armies, generals, or a central and respect ble government. Even then, you conquered: you have continued the contest, and you have gone on progressively ameliorating your institutions so as to assemble the Cortes, to establish a government on the most legiti mate basis, and through the medium of your representatives, to form a constitution, which is to raise you to the prosperity and grandeur of which you are worthy. True it is, that the sacred fire of patriot

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