The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics . nnexation of thecountry to the Swedish crown islikely to produce bloodshed beforeit can be accomplished. To the naval captures mentionedin our last, we have to add the fol-lowing:— The Terpsichore French frigatewas taken by his Majestys shipMajestic, on the 3d of February ;La Sultanefrigate by his Majestysship Hannibal, on the 2(5th ofMarch; her companion, LEtoilefrigate, on the 27th of March, bythe Hebrus; and the Uranie fri-gate, to escape capture, was set onfire by her commander on the 3dof February, in Brin
The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics . nnexation of thecountry to the Swedish crown islikely to produce bloodshed beforeit can be accomplished. To the naval captures mentionedin our last, we have to add the fol-lowing:— The Terpsichore French frigatewas taken by his Majestys shipMajestic, on the 3d of February ;La Sultanefrigate by his Majestysship Hannibal, on the 2(5th ofMarch; her companion, LEtoilefrigate, on the 27th of March, bythe Hebrus; and the Uranie fri-gate, to escape capture, was set onfire by her commander on the 3dof February, in Brindisi latter fate befel also the lle-gulus French line of battle ship;sue was burnt by the French com-mander in the Gironde, which riverwas entered by a British squadronunder Admiral Penrose, after thecapture of Bourdeaux, in order toclear the passage up the channelto that city. Great reinforcements of troops,ships, and extensive naval equip-ments,left England for North Ame-erica in the beginning of we hope the tidings of theevents in France will operate a. i . (5 . ? FIELD-MARSHAL BLUCHER. 297 moderation in the pretensions oTthe American governmeifl that willrender the employmem of coercivemeans, now amply at our command,unnecessary ; and that the nego-ciations, which are to commenceforthwith at Gothenburg (wherethe American commissioners havealready arrived), will soon com-plete the peaceful relations ofGreat Britain with the wholeworld. The British Parliament met onthe 21st of March. The docu-ments relating to the rupture ofthe negoeiai ons at Chatillon,which were proposed to he laid he-fore the legislature, were rendered unnecessary by the events whichimmediately succeeded, and whichspr ad a degree of joy and exulta-tion over the British empire scarce-|y ever equalled. The illumina-tions, which blazed over Iof the metropolis during the 11th,12th, and LSth of April, wen- asgrand as the occasion which pro-duced them. Ji-r Imperial Highness theDucln ss o
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