The Kentucky Gazette

STATE PAPER.

RUSSIA AND SWEDEN.

The following is the official note presented, on the 1st of last March, by Baron Budberg, the Russian charge d'affaires at Stockholm, to Baron Schwerin, the intended Swedish envoy to the court of Petersburg, on the reasons of his not being admitted by the empress of Russia — This note which is in circulation among the best informed circles on the continent, although it is suppressed from being published, has been communicated to us by a foreign minister, and we can vouch its authenticity.

The empress having ordered count Ottenberg to inform the Swedish ambassador, that the mission of Baron Schwerin was not agreeable to her imperial majesty, and would not be accepted, the charge d'affaires (Baron Budberg) is directed to declare, that the motive of this refusal proceeds both from the unfriendly conduct of the duke regent, and the principles of his political system with respect to Russia. These principles and conduct, openly violate the ties of alliance, friendship and good neighborhood which originally introduced missions of that nature; and the like missions are not usual between courts, which either are not united by such ties, or at least, do not choose to cultivate them, and to perform the duties they impose. — The Swedish court has placed itself in this situation towards the court of Russia, since the period when the duke of Sudermania, who directs the affairs of government, not satisfied with having rendered himself guilty of formal misconduct towards her imperial majesty, by endeavoring to deceive her by means of insidious and delusive overtures and proposals, has also contracted public connexions with the assembly of the French, & with those who have insulted the memory of the late king, by erecting a monument to his assassin. Her imperial majesty is acquainted with the motives, as well as the purport of these connexions; and it is notorious, that the regent has very lately received from the French, a sum of money, destined for warlike preparation; and that he is carrying on with them negociations for a treaty of alliance, the chief stipulations of which are directed against Russia. Under these circumstances, her imperial majesty has every reason to suppose, that the court of Sweden intends to break its peace with Russia, unless the majority of the king, which fortunately is nigh at hand, prevents disasters, equally pernicious to the tranquility of Sweden, and to that of the whole north of Europe, and stifles those hostilities in their very birth.