to join the Russians and Prussians against | return to Stockholm without having looked their common enemies who are also the his old master's army in the face. But, enemies of England. It is said, that what baseness, what shocking baseness is Swedes to the number of 18,000 men are it in the Aristocrats to confess, that they now at Stralsund (a sea-port on the borders ground their hopes on the prowess of Berof the Baltic), from whence they dare not nadotte! What! Are they, at last, come move. But, it is fair to suppose, that to a confession, that they have more remore are intended to follow, that the liance upon a man, who was one of the 30,000 men will be sent, and that they revolutionists of France and one of the gewill join the allies. What if they do? nerals of Buonaparté, than upon all the What is 30,000 men! "Oh! but, you noble commanders of Russia and Prussia? "do not consider, that it is 30,000 men All the Emperors, kings, and princes of "under the Crown Prince; under one of the Royal Blood who are now in the field "Buonaparte's own favourite generals!" against Napoleon? All! All the numeYes, thou poor, wretched creature; thourous host, through whose veins the rich poor, mean, despicable supporter of cor- blood of antiquity is still running? ruption and all sorts of rottenness, I do consider this; but, if thou, after having affected so long to contemn these men, whom thou calledst upstarts, art so base, so utterly devoid of shame, as openly to confess, that your chief hope of success against Napoleon is founded on the circumstance of his being now opposed by a Frenchman, a revolutionist, a man of his own promoting and exalling; if thou art so detestably base, I am not foolish enough to believe, that the Crown Prince is, with any army but a French army, able to face his former master, patron and friend.

By the SECOND ARTICLE of this Treaty we stipulate to assist Sweden to annex to its territory, in perpetuity, that part of the Danish territories, called Norway; but, that force is not to be used for this purpose, unless Denmark refuse to join the coalition against Napoleon. I see nothing unlawful in this. Any nation, at war with another, has a right to enter into an agreement to give its territories to a third party. But, what is worthy of remark here is, that Norway is to pass, in perpetuity to the Crown Prince and his heirs; for he is the heir to the Swedish Crown and dominions.

atrocious things were said less than two years ago! John Bowles! Come forth, John Bowles; forget, for a while, your Dutch Commission, and come and tell us what you really think of all this.

According to some persons Napoleon The THIRD and FOURTH ARTICLES give never yet won a battle. Berthier forms all the king of Sweden ONE MILLION of his plans of attack and some other generals your, the most Thinking People's money, fight the battles. Even the success of the as the price of his military co-operation in battle of Marengo, which, in its single self, the general cause during this present camsurpassed that of all the battles ever won paign! Bravo! So, here we are, at by the Old Generals of France, was ascrib- last, subsidizing an army, under the comed to another. Buonaparté had no hand in mand of a man, whom our news-papers it! What a clever fellow must he be have abused as a creature of Napoleon! then to persuade the French people, includ- Here we are, sending a million of money ing all these gainers of the victories, toto that very Bernadotte, of whom such ascribe the victories to him! The man must be a wizard, or something worse. Under him Bernadotte, at the head of French troops, would again, I dare say, carry victory on his standard; but, of Bernadotte, though now become "His "Royal Highness," we may be well as sured Napoleon entertains no fear. Success in war, as in all other great undertakings, depends chiefly upon a wise combination of the means to be employed, together with great foresight, and, then, when the time for execution comes, a scrupulous attention to every part of the duty to be performed. What can Bernadotte do in this way with his handful of men, to him foreigners, and with his Swedish officers? It will be, I fear, the best luck for him, if circumstances should justify his

The FIFTH ARTICLE cedes to Sweden, in perpetuity, the Island of Guadaloupe. The Morning Chronicle quarrels with this cession, says that it is contrary to the law of nations, that we have no right to cede that which has not been ceded to us. This is strange doctrine. I never heard of it before; and whoever has heard of it, it appears to me to be downright nonsense. Conquest gives a perfect right. The conquered soil is the dominion of the conqueror, while he holds it. He makes what laws he pleases for it; he collects its revenues and applies them as he pleases; and, in

Article from the MORNING POST of the 3d of September, 1810, and my observations thereon.

short, the country is his. He is completely | ING POST and the COURIER; and shall then the sovereign of it, and may, of course, call upon the reader for his execration of cede it whenever he chooses. But, the their authors. To the several extracts I curious thing here is, that we cede this shall give my own observations, made at French island to the king of Sweden and the time; and, then, the reader, with his successors, ACCORDING TO THE present events before him, will be enabled "ORDER OF SUCCESSION ESTA- to judge between me and these prostituted "BLISHED IN SWEDEN UNDER writers; and, which is of more importance, "DATE OF THE 26TH OF SEPTEM- he will be put upon his guard against the "BER, 1810." That is to say, we cede future abusive language of these foolish and it, this French island, which poor Louis wicked men.. XVIII. yet claims, to the Crown Prince, Bernadotte, who was, a few years ago, a revolutionist in France, and who has since been promoted and exalted by Buonaparté ! Come forth, John Bowles! Come, I say, "General Bernadotte has been elected and tell us what you have to say to this. "Crown Prince of Sweden. This has Far be it from me to find fault with this "obviously been the effect of the deepest recognition, this full and ample recogni-" and most infamous intrigue. The Arch tion, of the right of Bernadotte to the "Tyrant was in the first instance disposed Swedish Crown. He was chosen by the" to support the pretensions of the King of people of Sweden, who liked him better" Denmark; but having ascertained that than they did our old friend and ally, the" there was an understanding upon the subking of Sweden, who paid us a visit, and "ject between his Danish Majesty and the who is now somewhere upon the Conti- " Emperor of Russia, he suddenly withdrew nent. Far be it from me to disapprove of "his patronage, changed his system, and, this recognition of our new friend" instead of the King of Denmark, put CHARLES JEAN, this Frenchman, in" forward his General, Bernadotte, as the whom we now see the legitimate heir to "most proper person to succeed to the the Swedish Crown and dominions. I, "throne of Sweden. This infamous salelfor my part, like to see our ministers ced-" lite of the common tyrant of the Contiing a part of the old French dominions to nent, has in consequence of the baleful this man, who so ably assisted in the af-influence thus exercised, carried his elecfairs of Republican France. I like to see "tion; but can it be possible that the them thus bestow the former territories of" once noble and proudly independent the House of Bourbon. I say, that I think "Swedes will permit so base and unprinthe Swedes acted wisely in choosing this "cipled an upstart to ascend the throne worthy man as the successor to their" formerly occupied by the great and ilGrown; I say, he is an able, an excellent" lustrious Gustavus Vasa, and the other mán, and that I am charmed at the close"heroes who have so gloriously and legiconnexion which we are forming with him. His success in the world cannot fail to prove a powerful stimulus to other enterprising young men. Our ministers act wisely and justly in yielding reward to such distinguished merit; and I, for one, most entirely approve of this article of the treaty.

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"timately filled the throne of Sweden? "If so, then, indeed, will the Swedish na"tion prove itself unworthy of any senti"ment of compassion or respect, and be "justly consigned to the contempt and "execration of mankind. But, notwith"standing the temporary success of this "artful expedient of the Corsican to pro"mote his own ambitious and infamous "views, it is scarce to be imagined that "the noble and intrepid Swedes, who

But, what will now be said, by those impudent and corrupt creatures, who wrote against Bernadotte, in 1810, when he was chosen Crown Prince of Sweden? And look with reverence to the valiant and who, though we were then at peace with "patriotic deeds of their ancestors, can Sweden, abused the worthy old king like "submit to such a degradation as to yield a common thief? What will they NOW" obedience to a miscreant who has raised SAY? Say what they will now, the pub-" himself from obscurity by his devotion lic shall hear what they said then; for, it" only to the most infamous and detestable is necessary, for example sake, that such" tyrant that ever cursed the earth. Our men should be exposed. To this end I high opinion of the hardy and spishall insert a few extracts from the MORN-" rited character of the Swedes, induces

any effect at all? The way to have writ ten, upon such an occasion, having the author's sentiments (if, indeed, a madman can be said to have any sentiments); the way to have proceeded, in such a case, was, to show, by fair statement and reason, that it was a great degradation for the Swedes to submit to Bernadotte, and that his becoming their king would be injurious to them. To have shown this, to have proved this, might have done good; but, to heap upon Bernadotte and his master loads of sheer abuse, could not possibly do any good, and might do harm. Put all these furious phrases together: the infamous intriguer, the arch lyrant, the infamous satellite, the base upstart, the subtle, unprincipled, vile, perfidious, base, detestable, in

and what do they weigh with any man who reads for the sake of obtaining information; for the sake of acquiring the means of forming a right judgment upon political occurrences? With such a man they

"us most fondly to hope that a more "worthy line of conduct will, in the 66 present crisis of their fate, be pursued "by them. Though some of the Nobles "have been cajoled by arts, or seduced by "bribery, the people, we trust, will not "submit to the horrible and insufferable "degradation of having their legitimate "race of Sovereigns entirely set aside, "and replaced by the most base upstart dynasty that ever disgraced the meanest ❝and most abject nations of the universe. "Besides, it is so evidently the interest of "Russia to prevent Sweden from falling into such a state of degradation, that ab"ject as the Emperor ALEXANDER seems "to have become, it is hardly possible for "him not to rouse from his disgraceful "torpor, now that his enemy, who has de-famous miscreant: put them all together, "ceived him so long, is approaching his "very threshold. If he be not wholly "besotted by the artifices of the subtle tyrant, or terrified by his menaces, he will "at once shake off the degrading yoke, "and bid defiance to the perfidious Corsi-weigh not as a feather; nor is it possible "can. The fate of Spain and Holland is for them to answer any other purpose, "now before the Russians and the Swedes, than that of feeding the passions, of grati"and presents an awful and lamentable fying the vindictive appetite, of those who warning to both. The infatuated ALEX- live but to hate and to injure, and who ANDER may learn from the treatment would fain kill with curses those whom "which the Royal Family of Spain suffer- their stilettos cannot reach; no other pur"ed, after all the sacrifices which had pose than this, and the one other purpose "been made to BUONAPARTE, what trea- of flattering, by imitation, the taste of the "chery he has to expect from so vile and rabble in high life as well as in low, and, "perfidious a tyrant; while this new proof if possible, of keeping that rabble a rabble "of the unprincipled ambition of the Cor- still; diverting their minds from the ob"sican may be hoped to operate alike for- jects, on which they ought to be fixed, cibly on Sweden and Russia, and con- namely, the causes and the consequences of vince them that THEIR ONLY SECU-this great event; of filling their mouths "RITY IS IN A SINCERE AND CLOSE "ALLIANCE WITH GREAT BRI"TAIN, UNDER WHOSE PROTECT"ING WINGS THEY ARE SURE TO "EXPERIENCE A PROMPT AND "EFFECTUAL SHELTER."Now, reader, first look at the language of this article; look at the terms and the epithets, which I have distinguished by italic characters, and say, if, as an Englishman, you do not feel shame, that such language as this, such abuse as this, such self-degrading abuse, should appear in an English print. This print is, too, called "the Morning " Post and Fashionable World:" a pretty specimen, truly, of the taste of those who are called people of fashion in England.

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Is there any man of sense, who does not perceive, that every article of this; every suc publication that appears in this coun

must do the country harm, if it has

with imprecations upon Napoleon, instead of pointing out for their timely reflection, what new dangers may, from this event, arise to their country. This, however, is what I shall endeavour to do, after I have made some remarks on what this shamefully abusive writer says about the conduct of the Swedes, upon this occasion. The Swedes are flattered with lofty descriptions of the noble conduct of their fore-fathers, and great hope is expressed that they will not now submit to what is called the horrible and insufferable degradation of having the race of their sovereigns changed; but, if they should so submit, they are plainly told, that they will be unworthy of respect or compassion, and will be justly consigned to the execration of mankind. Verily, there is nothing original in this, for it has been said of every nation that the French have

subdued, from the year 1793 to the pre- " attack upon Sweden is about to be justly sent day. It is quite useless, however, to "punished by the same power who instiabuse the Swedes; and I dare say, that if "gated her to forget all that was due to the Swedes were to hear this abuse, they" honour and justice. The struggle in would not find it very difficult to discover" Finland was for a time glorious, and it that it arose from causes, very different in- must have been successful if the populadeed from that of a regard for either their" lion of Sweden had exhibited any thing of honour or their happiness. Indeed this" their ancient spirit. But they unhappily pretended anxiety for the welfare of the "listened to those drivellers who, under Swedes has in it something full as shame- "the pretence of being advocates of peace ful perhaps even as the abuse which has "and humanity, covered the cowardice of been just noticed. "their hearts or the baseness of their in"tentions. To obtain this peace they re

"have obtained it on honourable grounds, "and they entered into a compromise with "their enemies. For peace they gave not.

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their territory only; but their loyalty, "their oaths, and their morals. They ex"pelled their Sovereign, they gave their fealty to an usurper-a puppet at the beck "of foreigners. But with their character they lost the freedom of commerce, and their independence; and as it happens with "individuals, who, when they have once overstepped the line of rectitude, are "carried onward to the commission of "crimes of which they once thought "themselves incapable, so it has proved "with Sweden. The Crown Prince being

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General of Buonaparte's is proposed to "them. A base fear on the one hand, "and bribes on the other, prevail, and "Sweden sinks into a province of France. "Now begin her miseries. Her connexion

"It was reported this morning that the "King of Sweden is no more. It is a "maller of indifference whether the report "be true or not. 66 The moment of his ele"vation to the throne of the monarch who "was to him in double trust' as sove"reign and as kinsman, was the moment "of his disgrace-the moment that gave "him Bernadotte as successor, was the moment of his dethronement.-A mo"narch more criminal, with less motives "to be so---more sillily ambitious, with-removed by disease or murder, a petty "out any of those incitements and objects "that render ambition, if not less guilty, "at least more alluring, is not to be found "in the annals of history.- -What "deeper misery could Sweden have expe"rienced by the most disastrous warfare," with this country, where her principal "than she has experienced by the peace, "that has given her a French General for "her sovereign? Under the gallant Gus"tavus she would have had the consola"tion, under all her misfortunes, of know"ing that she was fighting in a good cause, "that defeat was without disgrace, and "misfortune without dishonour.--But she "has made peace to have none of the sta"bility and repose of peace-she has "made peace without experiencing any diminution of the burdens and priva"tions of war.-She has surrendered her "lawful Monarch into the hands of Buona66 parté, not to procure forbearance, but to "invite dishonour- -not to escape his "power, but to fix his foot more firmly" on her yielding and suppliant neck.

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"commercial market lies, will be at the mer"cy of her enemy; contributions and con"scriptions will succeed one another in "dreadful succession; her laws, her crown, "her trade, are now in the hands of a ca"pricious tyrant, and may be altered at "his will, and transferred at his pleasure; "and the people who refused to fight for "themselves under the standard of their lawful Prince, must now fight for the

aggrandizement of a foreign power, "under the direction of foreign Gene"ral. Thus it has proved with every "other power, and Sweden now only adds "her testimony to what was before suffi"ciently apparent-that those who cringe at danger shall bow to degradation."

-Thus far the COURIER, and now for "What a picture of national degradation his fellow-labourer, of this day, who "does Sweden present! It is but a short does not seem to mince the matter with "time ago we beheld her engaged in an the Old King of Sweden much more "honourable contest with the invaders of than with Napoleon." We are grave"her soil; with Russia, whose iniquitously told, in some of the articles from

the very persons, who have all along been, sations against the Jacobins. It is of imand who still are, loudest in their accu

"Sweden, that the deputies sent to Paris "to announce the election of Bernadotte as "Crown Prince were graciously received, 66 as well by Buonaparté as by that Ge-portance to note, that these same persons 66 neral, both of whom have written now tell us, that it was no low vagabond "complimentary letters on the occasion Republican or Jacobin crew that murdered "to the TRAITOROUS KING, and in GUSTAVUS, but that the principal in the "which doubtless they wish his wretched crime was his own brother, then a Royal "Majesty health and long life!-These Duke, and now a King.--This is of great "answers gave so much satisfaction to the importance to the cause of truth; and I "King, that all possible honours were im- should like very much to see the fact veri"mediately conferred on the elected Crown fied, on one side or the other, so that there "Prince. Was ever farce so impudently might be no more question upon that subject. " performed, was ever common sense more grossly insulled, than in this pretended trailers amongst Jacobins and Levellers; Hitherto we have been told to look for "free election of Bernadotte ?-This instru- but, now, behold! the Morning Post tells "ment of Buonaparté is shortly to set out us, that here is a king, who is a traitor, "for Sweden; and we doubt not that very thereby recognizing the validity of the doc"shortly after his arrival, we shall hear of trine of those, who arraigned CHARLES "the increasing years and infirmities of the First for treason, upon the ground of "the old King, and the illustrious Berna- the sovereignty residing in the nation. "dotte will kindly free him from all his Observe, however, it is not I who call the "Royal cares!”. -I do not feel myself king of Sweden a traitor. I merely repeat at liberty to join the Courier in calling the what is asserted by the Morning Post present king of Sweden a "criminal, a silly newspaper, and I repeat it with a dis66 man, an usurper, a puppet;' still less do I feel myself at liberty to pointing it out to observation, and with and, belief of its truth. I do it with a view of join the Morning Post in calling him a traitor, and who, on the 9th instant, ac- If what is here asserted be true; if the a desire of seeing the truth ascertained. cused him of being the principal in the as- present king of Sweden be a traitor and sassination of GUSTAVUS, Ankerstrom be- an assassin, it should be known to the ing rather his agent than any thing else.These are hardish names, and pretty round serted; the facts should be proved to them people of England, to whom it has been ascharges; and they cut, as we shall see, by those who have made the assertions. more ways than one. The assassination If, on the contrary, the accusations be of GUSTAVUS was, as the reader will bear false, they should be retracted, or their in mind, attributed to the Republicans of falsehood exposed; for, it is, I believe, France; not to the French, generally, but something quite new, for sovereigns, who to the French Republicans, or Jacobins, are at peace and amity with us, to be as they were called; and, on this asser- called in our public prints, traitors and astion was founded an argument, made great sassins. This is, I believe, quite new. Lord use of, in England, at the time, against all GEORGE GORDON was put into prison for those persons who were called Republicans a libel on the late good Queen of France. or Jacobins, whether in France or in Eng-A printer was prosecuted for a libel upon land, who were all accused, in a lump, of the good Emperor or good Empress of a desire at least, to commit assassination, Russia. And, it is fresh in every one's as far as related to kings and their families. memory, that MR. PELTIER (whose trial -This is well worthy of particular atten- I shall notice more at large one of these tion; for the assassination of the king of days) was tried, and was convicted without Sweden, which took place just at the break- the jury's going out of court, and without ing out of the ANTI-JACOBIN war, was one scarcely a moment's hesitation, for having of the great grounds of alarm in England; it made a publication against BUONAPARTE, was one of the principal means, by which when First Consul of France. How it the people of England were terrified out of happens, then, that the Morning Post and all their former notions of liberty, and in- the Courier venture to call the duced to approve of what their forefathers king of Sweden a traitor and an assassin, I would have startled with horror but to should be very glad to know. think of.——It is, therefore, of import- said, as to Napoleon, that we are at war ance to attend to what is now said, upon with him; and therefore, may say of him It may be the subject of GUSTAVUS's assassination, by just what we please; but, without examin

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