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    not give any credit to the reports that this empire is-likely" to break with France . The elected crown prince of Sweden has been , it is said , in the capital , and been very magnificently received $ and the unfortunate ex-king has been wandering

    in the north of Europe , attempting we know not what in several parts of the Baltic . Whether he wished to get on board an English ship , and take refuge in this country » or to land in his own , is not known , but his efforts were

    ineffectual v and he is said also to have proceeded to Petersburg !* ., and thence to have written a viojent letter to the government of Sweden , upbraiding them with their late disgraceful actions , and treating them in the most contemptuous manner ' . Unfortunate man ! He cannot bring his mind to his condition ;

    he has to learn that when Providence has raised a family to sovereignty , it is for the good of the whole nation , not for the gratification of the vanity of a single individual ; and when he is thrown down from his lofty situation , he returns to the mass of his fellow-creatures , and

    however galling to him may be the memory of former greatness , he must learn the lesson of submission . The vapouring of a monarch , without arma to back his complaints , is merely the crying and whining of a child after its rattle .

    Sweden has not yet received its elected prince , but preparations arc making for his arrival , and dignified characters are waiting at the port where he is expected to disembark . The king has received three of the decorations < x £ the legion of honour , of which one is for himself , and the other two he hag bestowed on two

    of his courtiers . But decorations are not the only things that Sweden is to receive with its new prince ; thirty thou « aud French troops are to accompany him , and difficulties have occurred in their

    passage-through Dcnmaik . They have , however , been removed , on the agreement , that they shall pass through in bodies of only three thousand men each . There was a tune * when the introduction

    o £ &aacmy of thirty thousand foreigners into anyv kingdom would excite peculiar sensation * in tha breast of . an Englishman ; but : that time is gone by , and he Has lo * die feelings of . his ancestors upon uch an occasion . In France every thing is quiet ; The great : emperor i * all in all . His edicts meet vrim « a mitta q cc $ wl whether

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    he modifies trade , seizes foreign productions , lays new restrictions on the press , ail is received with perfect apathy * The ' nation is , as it were , in as kind of stupor . Military glory occupies the minds of a very great part of the community , and the rest are so entangled in the chains of the new despotism , the horrors of the late

    anarchy , and an increasing energy in every species of industry , that they can make no opposition to the will of their grand monarque . One of his great pro * jects seems to be to never model all the works of ancient and modern times ; so that his subjects shall read only what he chooses , and direct their thoughts exactly in the trains which he ha 9 laid for them . Nothing it seems , is now to be published , but what he approves of ; and we may see new editions of our own

    history ^ from which every sentiment of liberty will be expunged . We have heard of a Chinese king , who was such an enemy to literature , that he ordered all the books in his dominions to be burnt ; the plan of the European sovereign seems to be best adapted to depress

    the human mind . But , fortunately , there still will be presses which the tyrant ' s arm cannot reach ; they are fixed already on the banks of thej Mississippi and the Ohio * and in ga few years will probably be found near the mouth of the Miseomris . But every one who feels for his fellow-creatures must lament that

    such inordinate passions should arise in any heart , and that a sovereign should take such pains to do an injury to his kingdom , which will inevitably bring it down from that eminence to which he gloried in raising it . But the eyes of all are turned to the peninsula of Spain and Portugal ; and

    Englishmen vie w with trembling anxiety the fate of the latter kingdom . If we could believe our papers , the Spaniards bttve been every where almost successful against the French ; yet the interior provinces seem to enjoy a comparative degree of repose , and the Gallic sovereign has his cdurt at Madrid , Another

    remarkable circumstance is , that a vast body , of the French , supposed to be upwards of a hundred thousand men , has quitted Spain , and is in th <* heart of Portugal , within sight of the shores of the Atlantic . II then the population of Spain we » decisively against the French Government , it should seem impossible for it to maintain its ground ; but its mea *

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    520 State of Public Affairs .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1810, page 520, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2409/page/48/