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In our Magazine for April we gave an account of the extraordinary revolution which had taken place in the government of this country. We now insert the subsequent particulars of this singular event.

On the 1st of May the diet met, conform to summons. The Duke of Sudermania addressed the Assembly at considerable length, in which he pointed out the necessity of convoking the States at a crisis of such great difficulty and danger, and conjured them to adopt such measures as should appear, in their wisdom, best calculated to save their country from irretrieveable ruin. Orders were issued at this meeting that no persons should go to Haga, the palace where the Queen resides, without special permission. On the 10th of May all the members of the diet met in one assembly, when the Lord Chancellor was ordered by the Regent to read aloud the Act of Abdication made by the King on the 29th of March. Baron Manneinheim then addressed the Diet in a long speech, pointing out the miserable situation to which the country was reduced by the King's obstinate passion for war, and conIcluded with a motion that Gustavus and his whole issue be deprived of the Crown of Sweden for ever; which act was acceded to, with great acclamations, without a dissentient voice. The Duke Regent then addressed the Assembly in a long speech, declaring it his opinion, that it was absolutely necessary to new-model the constitution; and in the mean time would take upon himself, as Regent, to manage the public affairs to the best of his ability; requesting that nothing should be adopted respecting himself, till the new constitution should be drawn up, and submitted to their consideration.

Stockholm, May 29.

The following is the act of abdication of the late King Gustavus Adolphus IV. which was read in the sitting of the Diet of the 10th inst.

"In the name of God,--We Gustavus October 1809.

Adolphus, by the Grace of God, King of Sweden, of the Goths, Wends, &c. Duke of Schleswick, Holstein, &c. make known, that having been proclaimed King this day seven years back, and ascended with a bleeding heart a throne stained with the blood of a beloved and revered father, we regret not being able to promote the true welfare and honour of this ancient realm, inseparable from the happiness of a free and independent people. Now, whereas we are convinced, that we cannot any longer continue our royal functions, and preserve tranquillity and order in this king. dom, therefore, we consider it as our sacred duty to abdicate our royal dignity and crown, which we do hereby freely and uncompelled, to pass our remaining days in the fear and worship of God, wishing that all our subjects, and their descendants, may enjoy more happiness and prosperity in future, through the mercy and blessing of God. In testimony and confirmation thereof, we have personally written and signed this present, and corroborated it with our royal seal.

(L. S.)

"GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS." Gripsholm Castle, March 29. 1809. Stockholm, June 6.

their approbation to the plan of the new The States of the Realm, having given constitution, framed by the Committee in the sitting of the 5th inst. it was at the same time resolved to entreat of his Royal ratification of the said constitution, but also Highness, the Duke Regent, not only his. his acceptance of the Swedish crown. The States having accordingly met on the 6th inst. in the Great Council-hall, and the Duke Regent being present, the Marshal of the Realm addressed him in an appropriate speech, expressing the above resolutions and sentiments of the states, to which ke returned a short answer, declaring not only his approbation of the new constitu. tion, but also his acceptance of the Swedish crown. The same day the new King issued the following

PROCLAMATION.

"We, Charles XIII. by the grace of God, King of Sweden, &c. to all our faithful subjects, &c. greeting.

"When, under divine Providence, we assumed, some time ago, the provisional government of our beloved native country, committed to us by the States of the Realm, we immediately called the attention of the Diet to the indispensable and important task of framing a new constitution, calculated to promote the, tranquillity, prosperity, and welfare of the country, by

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an irrevocable union between the mutual rights and duties of the King and people of Sweden. The States having informed us, that they have not only performed the important task committed to them by us, and the confidence of their fellow-subjects, but also that they have chosen us King of

Sweden and of the Goths and Wends, requesting our approbation of that choice; the cordial and loyal manner in which that election was made, did not allow us to decline its acceptance. Relying on the Omnipotent, who explores the inmost recesses of the human heart, and knows the sincerity and purity of our sentiments, moyed by the most fervent love and zeal for our native land, which can only cease with our existence, and trusting we shall be most powerfully supported by the loyal attachment of the noble Swedish nation, we have, therefore, accepted the crown and sceptre of Sweden. It is far more gratifying to our feelings, thus to have been called upon by the free and uncontrouled voice of the people, to become their King, their protector, and defender, than if we had ascended the ancient Swedish throne merely by right of hereditary succession. We shall govern the kingdom and people of Sweden as an indulgent parent does his children, with implicit confidence in the honest, with forbearance towards those who err undeliberately, with uprightness towards all, and when the day arrives, the near approach of which is announced by our advanced age, which shall put an end to our worldly cares, we will hail our last moments with the pious resignation of the just, and close it by blessing you all."

"CHARLES,

"GUST. SARDSJELKE, Aulic Chancellor. "Council-ball, Stockholm Castle, June 6. 1809."

Stockholm, June 9.

On the 5th, the Duke of Sudermania was chosen King, the 7th he was proclaimed, and on the day following a grand procession was to take place, but the rain prevented it; the next day, however, it was performed. The streets were lined by the troops. His Majesty Charles XIII. rode through the ranks on horseback, amidst acclamations from all ranks of people.

Stockholm, August 25." His Royal Majesty has sent to the Diet the following message, relative to the pension which the States are to allow to the late. King Gustavus Adolphus, his Queen, and children:

"The period is now fast approach, ing, when a Prince who lately govern, ed Sweden, but whose claims to the Swedish Crown have been solemnly cancelled by the unanimous resolution himself from this country. Their own of the States of the Realm, must absent spontaneous wish agrees on this point with what the public tranquillity and se. curity require.

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"His Royal Majesty has taken the advice of the Secret Committee, on a matter of so much importance, which, however, the state of public affairs does nicate to the Diet, and he therefore not yet permit his Majesty to commuconfines himself at present to the question, What pension or yearly allowance are the States of the Realm willing to grant to their late King, his Queen, and children?" Which question being answered, another will occur, relative to the country which it will be most proper to assign for the residence of Gustavus Adolphus and his family.

"His Majesty does not deem it superfluous to add some observations which he wishes the States to bear in mind in their deliberations on this subject. The States cannot but be aware, that their decision must bear the stamp of dignified generosity, which becomes a noble minded nation; that misfortune craves respect, and that humanity itself commands forgiveness of the past. His Royal Majesty is desirous that the States of the Realm, by dividing the subject under discussion, on these principles, should meet his wishes, and thus give a pledge to Europe of the purity of the motives which induced Sweden to revive her system of Government, and renew the structure of the State.

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It is understood that peace between Sweden and Russia was signed on the 17th September. The terms are not yet offici. ally known; but it is believed that Finland and the island of Aland have been gi ven up to Russia, and that Sweden has a Great Britain. The 12th of November is greed to shut her ports to the vessels of said to be the day on which the ports of that country will be shut.

The confiscation of British goods in the ports of Sweden, it is stated, is not to be in sisted on.

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DENMARK.

Intelligence has been received which seems to import that a change of policy has taken place in the northern Courts, from which we might infer that an approximation is about to take place of those Courts to Great Britain, if their entire subserviency to Bonaparte were not notorious, and if it were not inconceivable that he should consent to any relinquishment or mitigation of their hestility towards this country. Be this as it may, it is understood that a sort of armistice has taken place in the Baltic. The British Commandant has consented to permit the provisioning of Nor. way. In return for this act of grace, the Court of Copenhagen has evinced a disposition more considerate towards those who incur the imputation of being connected with Great Britain. On the 26th of July, the Danish Government issued the following order:

"That all the neutral, or probable neutral holders of accepted bills, which had been drawn from England upon the merchants of Denmark at the commencement of the war, and which were deposited with the Commissioners at Altona, according to a notice from Government, should come forward within a year to receive their money or property back again. At the expiration of the twelve months, the articles deposited will become the property of the Government. Such bills as have not been given over to the Commissioners are now ordered to be delivered up within three months, in order that the holders may receive the benefit of the present decree."

We also understand that the Court of Copenhagen has opened its ports, both of the islands and of the German provinces, to neutrals; and a circumstance is also rumoured, which, if well founded, would afford a more decided proof of the present disposition of the Danish Court; namely, that it has removed the sequestration from the Bri tish property in its possession.

The Danish garrison of the fortress of Christianhoe, in Bornholm, had revolted, imprisoned the Governor and officers, and embarked on board two ships and two boats, for the purpose, as is stated, of deserting to the British squadron, having previously spiked the cannon of the fortress. They were met,

however, soon after their putting to sea, by a Danish privateer, which captured the two boats, but the ships escaped.

CAPTURE OF SENEGAL.

Capt. Columbine arrived at the Admiralty on the 24th of August, with dis patches, announcing the capture of the settlement of Senegal. Major Maxwell, Commandant of the garrison of Goree, having received intelligence that the garrison of Senegal was extremely weak, attacked it with 168 men, accompanied by Captain Columbine, in the Solebay frigate. They passed the bar with the loss of a schooner; and the enemy retiring to a battery about 12 miles up the river, Major Maxwell made preparations to storm it, but it was evacuated in the night, and next day the fort and garrison capitulated. The garrison are prisoners of war. They are to be sent to France, but are not to serve till exchanged. They consist of 160 Europeans, besides which there were 240 native militia in the island. We lost not a single man in the attack, and had only one slightly wounded. The only loss sustained by the British was that of Captain Frederick Parker, of the Derwent, Mr Francis Atterbury Sealy, midshipman of that sloop, and six seamen drowned in attempting to cross the bar of Senegal. The Solebay frigate unfortunately ran aground in silencing a battery near the bar, and could not be got off. The crew and stores were saved. The settlement of Senegal is the great mart of the gum trade, from which 800 tons are exported annually.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

A most desperate attack was made upon some Russian gunboats in the Gulph of Bothnia, on the night of July 25. by 18 armed British boats, com. manded by Captain Forrest of the Prometheus. Out of four gunboats and a brig, three and the brig were taken.Our loss has been severe, though not to be compared with that of the enemy. The crew of one gunboat, No. 62, were to a man killed or dangerously wounded. All the British officers and men behaved with the greatest gallantry.— The following is a list of the killed and wounded belonging to the different vessels whose boats were engaged. Princess

Princess Carolina, 1 killed, 3 wounded.-Minotaur, 12 killed, 26 wounded. Cerberus, 7 wounded.-Prometheus, 4 killed, and 15 wounded.—Total, 19 killed, 51 wounded.

Names of Officers Killed and Wounded, Princess Carolina-Killed, G. Car. rington, midshipman. Minotaur-Killed, John James Callanan, fifth Lieutenant; William Wilkins, second Lieutenant of Royal Marines; Charles Davies, quarter master.-Wounded, G. Elvey. T. Milne, J. Chalmers, midshipmen, all slightly. Prometheus-Killed, Mr Tho. Humble, captain's clerk.-Wounded, Capt. T. Forrest, and Lieut. G. Forster, slightly.

The enemy's vessels, captured, had 28 Killed, and 29 Wounded.

List of vessels captured by the boats of his Majesty's ships Princess Carolina, Minotaur, Cerberus, and Prometheus, on the night of the 25th July 1809. No. 11, transport-brig, of 23 men, N. Uruiff, master, bound to Abo, laden with provisions; No. 62, gunboat, of two 18-pounders, and 44 men; No. 65 gunboat, of two guns, and 49 men; No. 66, gunboat, of two guns, and 44 men. N. B. The gunboats taken by the boats of the above ships at Fredericksham.

A letter has been received by the Hon. W. Wellesley Pole from Captain Cottrell, of his Majesty's ship the Ni. jaden, dated in Kilduin Bay, the 6th of Juné last, giving an account of the capture or destruction of 22 or 23 vessels in the river Kola, by the boats of the above ship, under the directions of Lieutenants Wells and Smith. A fort under which those vessels were anchored was taken possession of, and the guns brought away or thrown into the river.

The London Gazette of September 9. contains dispatches from Lord Col. lingwood, recounting a great many gallant exploits of our sailors in the Me. diterranean. The following is a summary of these exploits :

The boats of the Sea Horse, Captain Stewart, under the direction of Lieuts. Bennet and Pearse of the Sea Horse and Halcyon, destroyed the forts on the small islands of Gianoti and Pianoso, about the 20th of June. One private marine of the Sea Horse was killed, and another wounded. The Al

ceste, Captain Maxwell, and the Cyane, about the same time, destroyed two gun-boats at Terracina, and brought off from a depot of timber on the coast, as much wood as the ships could carry. Capt. Staines of the Cyane meanwhile destroyed three strong martello towers. While the ships were taking off the timber, a serjeant, two corporals, and two privates, came on board, deserters from the French army. Lieut. Gordon of the Mercury, about the same time, destroyed a number of Trabaccoles, and other vessels on the beach of Rotti, near Manfredonia.

of the sloop Scout was sent in pursuit On the 14th June Lieut. Battersby of 14 vessels under the protection of two gunboats, coming round Cape Croisette. Several of them pushed for a harbour about three leagues to the east of the Cape. A party was landed, stormed, and took a battery, spiked the guns, and brought out the whole vessels. The conduct of Lieut. Battersby, and of all the other officers and men, is highly praised. One man was killed and five wounded in this attack. On the 15th July a party of seamen and marines, under the conduct of the same Lieut. Battersby, attacked a strong battery, which commanded the fort of Carry, between Marseilles and the Rhine, carried it without any loss, and spiked the guns. Five of the enemy were killed, and seven made prisoners.

On the roth of May the Spartan, Captain Brenton, in concert with a detachment of Austrian troops, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Baron Ocharnick, reduced the citadel and batteries on the island Luffin on the coast of Croatia. The garrison, consisting of 170 men, were compelled to surrender at discretion. The boats of the Velontaire, Captain Buller, destroyed Fort Rioux, on the coast of France, and captured five vessels which it protected. The boats were commanded by Lieut. Shaw, of whose gallantry Capt. Buller speaks with great praise. He had two wounded, the French five killed and eight wounded.

During the attack upon Ischia and Procida by Sir John Stuart, a numerous flotilla of gunboats, which were collecting from Gaeta and other parts of the coast, were attacked by the Cyane, Espoir, and the British and Sicilian gun

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boats, when about 40 of them were taken or destroyed. The Cyane was afterwards engaged with other divisions of gunboats and the batteries on shore which protected them, at one of which Captain Staines, on the 26th June, landed, stormed it, and destroyed the guns. On the 27th, the Italien irigate, of 40 guns, and a corvette, which were making their escape from Baia to Naples, were attacked by the Cyane, and with difficulty escaped. Captain Staines be haved with the most admirable gallantry and skill. He was grievously wounded, having lost his left arm, and received much injury in other parts of his body; but is likely to recover. Lieut. Hall, the senior lieutenant, was also wounded, and the second lieutenant had been wounded before, so that at last the ship was fought and conducted by the master, who conducted himself as a brave and good officer. The Cyane has been sent to England to be refitted. Two men were killed, and 20 wounded on board the Cyane.

On the 31st of May, the boats of the Topaze, Capt. Griffiths, were dispatched under the command of Mr Charles Hammond, first lieutenant, to bring out nine vessels at anchor in the Road of Demater, on the coast of Albania, which was effected with great gallantry. We had one man killed, and one slightly

wounded. The vessels were loaded with timber and brandy on Government account. Four of them were destroyed,

the rest sent to Corfu.

On the 13th June, Capt. Barrie, of the Pomone, captured the Neapolitan privateer Le Lucien Charles, commanded by Chevalier Charles Lucien, Prevost de Boissi, Adjutant-Gen. of France, and officer of the Legion of Honour. The vessel was new, about 60 tons, mounted three guns, with a complement of 53 men.

A letter received from an officer on board his Majesty's ship Bonne Citoyenne, contains the report of the capture of the Furieuse, one of the French frigates which escaped from the Saintes, and afterwards from Guadaloupe. It was on the 6th of July, after a chace of 20 hours, that the Bonne Citoyenne came up with, and engaged the Furieuse. The battle, which was of the most furious description, lasted six hours and 49 minutes; at the expiration of which

the Furieuse struck, having sustained a loss of 33 killed, and nearly 50 wound. ed, amongst which was her Captain. The Bonne Citoyenne had only one man killed, and five wounded, two of them badly. The Bonne Citoyenne is a small vessel of her class; but the Furieuse is capable of mounting 50. She is about six years old, and extremely fit for the King's service. From the short distance from each other at which the ships engaged, from zo to 80 yards, they were at the close of the action complete wrecks. At the time when our informant wrote, three days after the action, the Bonne Citoyenne, with her prize, was steering for the Island of St John's, Newfoundland; but from the crippled state of the ships, some doubts were entertained, whether they would be able to reach that port. The Furieuse was bound to Bayonne, with a cargo of sugar, coffee, and a little cocoa.

Admiralty Office,-September 2.

Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane has transmitted to the Hon. William Wellesley Pole, a letter from Captain Pigot, of his Majesty's ship the Latona, giving an account of his having, on the 18th of June last, captured La Felicite, a French frigate, pierced for forty-two guns, but having only fourteen of her main-deckers mounted, and one hundred and seventy-four men on board. She had left Guadaloupe, in company with another frigate, bound to France with colonial produce. Her consort escaped through superior sailing, after a long chace, by his Majesty's sloop Cherub.

ERUPTION OF MOUNT ETna.

A letter from a gentleman in Sicily, to his friend in Glasgow, of date May 1. gives the following account of an eruption of Mount Etna:

"I returned a few days ago from a trip to Mount Etna, where I had been to see the effects of an eruption which took place on the 20th ult. The preceding day we were all much surprised at seeing the streets of Messina covered with a quantity of fire-ashes, something like gunpowder, which were dri ven by a strong south wind from the top of the mountain, distant 60 miles. On the 28th volumes of smoke and fire burst out from several craters, which

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