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Jenks' Portland Gazette
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
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On September 7, the King of Sweden, via a note to French charge d'affaires M. Gallard, condemned an insulting article in Napoleon's Moniteur of August 14 about Ratisbon, leading to the immediate cessation of all diplomatic intercourse between Sweden and France, while allowing commercial ties to continue.
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The Swedish note to M. Gallard, French charge d'affaires.
"Stockholm, Sept. 7.
"His Majesty the King of Sweden, has received a report of the improper, the insolent, and the ridiculous observations which Monsieur Napoleon Buonaparte has allowed to be inserted in his Moniteur, of the 14th August, under the article Ratisbon, p.
"The tone, the style, and the subject of this article, are all of so extraordinary a nature, that his Majesty has been yet hardly able to comprehend the object of such an act of political extravagance.-If it has been done in the hope of misleading the public as to the conduct of his majesty, as it appears from the uncommon pains that are taken to draw a line of separation between his Majesty and his subjects, let the world understand, that any instigation to that effect never could have been less likely to succeed than at this moment, or than it always will, with a people whose interests are bound up with those of a sovereign, who has never separated his property from theirs, and who never feels so happy as when he contributes to the glory and to the happiness of his subjects.
." As his majesty cannot, consistent with his own dignity, or the honor of his crown, permit any official intercourse, after such an insult, he has ordered me, Sir, to communicate to you, that, from this day, all diplomatic intercourse of every kind, both private and public, is immediately to cease between the French legation at Stockholm and his majesty's government.
"As a sentence in the article above mentioned, seems to imply that the French government is disposed to admit that the continuance of the commercial intercourse between Sweden and France would be attended with some advantages, his majesty, on his part, is willing to permit the same from those sentiments of esteem which he always entertained for the people of France: sentiments which he has inherited from his ancestors, and which owe their origin to far happier times."
(Signed)
"T.D. EHRENHEIM."
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Stockholm
Event Date
Sept. 7
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all diplomatic intercourse ceases immediately; commercial intercourse permitted to continue.
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The King of Sweden received a report of improper observations in the Moniteur of August 14 under the Ratisbon article, deemed insulting. In response, he orders the cessation of all diplomatic relations with the French legation in Stockholm, while expressing willingness to maintain commercial ties with the French people.