e communication in the most favourable terms to his
Majesty's ministers, adding, that on this would greatly depend
the light in which it would be considered. I uniformly replied,
that was not in my power, but that his Swedish Majesty might be
assured of my transmitting a faithful report of what he had
done me the honour to communicate.

In a Postscript to this letter, which was addressed to the Right Hon.
Charles Yorke, he says,--

Lieutenant Ross of the Victory, who went on shore with the
Swedish Admiral, was requested to inform me, that he had
omitted to mention, that the Prince of Ponte Corvo had promised
to invest all the property he possessed, said to amount to
eight millions sterling, in Sweden, as a pledge of his
intentions to maintain the country in her foreign relations.

The next packet from England brought the accounts of Sir James's
promotion to the rank of Vice-admiral of the Red, and also the
confirmation of several appointments made by the Admiral on the station.
We may now mention the answer given by Mr. Yorke to the two last
despatches, although dated on the 18th of September. After acknowledging
the receipt of them, communicating the election of Bernadotte as
successor to the Crown of Sweden, he says,--

These interesting papers, which confirmed accounts that had
been previously received of this extraordinary transaction,
have been communicated to the King's ministers. I have at
present only to express to you my sense of the prudent and
proper manner in which you appear to have conducted yourself on
this occasion in your conversation with the Swedish Admiral,
and to acquaint you that the earnest desire entertained by his
Majesty's Government of preserving the relations of peace and
amity with Sweden, as long as possible, remains unalterable.

About this time two untoward events took place, which threatened a
commencement of hostilities between the two nations. The one was the
attack of the Hero's boats on a Danish privateer lying in the Swedish
harbour of Marstrand, in which a midshipman was killed, and others
wounded; and the second was the conduct of Captain Acklom, of the
Ranger, in spiking the guns of the Swedish armed schooner Celeritas.
On these, however, concessions were made on both sides; Captain
Newman, of the Hero, was wrong in attacking an enemy's vessel under
the guns of a Swedish fort