The Virginia Gazette

Stockholm, April 15. After the King had signed the Act or Instrument mentioned in our former Advices, and taken an Oath to observe it, his Majesty explained himself in the following Terms to the Senate:

Being called, by the Death of the late King, to fill the Throne of this Kingdom, I renew with Pleasure, at my Accession to the Crown, the Assurances I formerly gave of my invariable Resolution to reign and govern agreeably to the Oath I have taken, and according to the received and established Laws of the Kingdom. There is nothing in this World I have more at Heart, than the Safety, Prosperity, and Advancement of every Thing that may conduce to the Advantage of the State, and the Benefit of my Subjects. I cannot view the weighty Office of Governing in the present Conjuncture, without reflecting on all the Care and Trouble that must inevitably attend it: However, I trust entirely to the Integrity of these Gentlemen the Senators, being fully persuaded that they will faithfully assist me with their good and salutary Advice, which I shall always receive in a grateful and friendly Manner.

The Speech which Count Tein made the same Day in the Senate, has since been published, and contains, among other Things, the following remarkable Passages.

"May the Blessings of the Lord wait round your Majesty's Throne! May the Lord's Anointed be protected by the Strength of His Almighty Arm! May the destroying Angel be driven far away from the Country and its Inhabitants; and may Peace flourish in our Dwellings! But if ever we should be obliged, marching by your Majesty's Side, to repel with the Sword any Invasion unjustly attempted, may the God of all Mercy then go before your Majesty, and fill your Royal Person with his Spirit, to the End that a free People may never become Slaves to a despotic Potentate, and that the willing Obedience of the Subjects may be the best Pledge of their Attachment and Fidelity to their King."