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Yes – with energy enough they did act: Proofs
the most undoubted, of their thinking the preservation
of Sweden of importance, they ubdoubtedly
did give. The King of Sweden plunges
his poor and thinly peopled nation into a war,
the most notoriously void of pretence of any
upon record, in the teeth of the plain and
positive letter of a Constitutional law of his
own framing, and to which he had sworn
observance. His now army, faithful to the Constitution,
refused to be made the tools of tyranny
and injustice. A memorable example, and
may it never be forgotten in any country,
and least of all in Britain! At this crisis,
the Danish body of Auxiliaries enters Sweden
in a defenceless quarter, taking nothing, damaging
nothing, hunting nobody, friends to the
country, adverse only to it's oppressors, and that
only during the continuance of the oppression.
The Swedish Monarch, thinly accompanied,
shuts himself up in Gottenburgh, which the
Danish auxiliaries prepare to invest, a few
days more would have brought him to reason,
and the peace of the north would have been restored.
Alarmed at the danger, Russia threatens
with her armies, Britain with her fleets, and Mr. Elliott, running backward and forward between
the fugitive tyrant and the deliverers of his country,
interposes what, in the language of Mr. Elliott's
court, is called a mediation. The hands of the Prince
of Denmark, the common friend of Sweden & Russia,
are tied up from keeping the peace, and the hands of
the pensioner of the Turks are let loose to prosecute his
plan of unprovoked hostility and conquest.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	056	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c5
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
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Notes public	bowring, x, 201ff	ID Number	3357
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