which I hope will
meet with your approbation.

On seeing the minister I found he was fully sensible of the
motives by which you were guided; he thanked you for the
assistance you had given to Sweden on the part of his
sovereign, who, he said, was penetrated with the delicacy of
your conduct to this country. If you could not keep your
station in the narrow Gulf of Finland, he hoped that you might
be able to remain at least in the Baltic, until the accounts
from Fredericksham should become more decided; and as to the
squadron in Aland Haf, he observed, that Admiral Puke was soon
expected, when the service of that squadron would no longer be
wanted; he wished it to remain till then, which would be a few
days longer.

As I had demanded, in conformity with your desire, if the
regulation of last spring, which limited the number of his
Majesty's pendants that might be in Carlscrona or other ports
of Sweden, was still to be considered in force, he answered me,
that with respect to the ships under your orders, any number of
them, or all, might enter into Carlscrona or any other port,
and procure what they stood in need of; and he offered to give
me a written engagement to that effect, which I expressed a
desire to have, and it is for that I wait in order to despatch
the Hero.

I have, &c. &c. &c.
AUGT. FOSTER.

To Vice-admiral Sir James Saumarez,
&c. &c. &c.

Stockholm, Sept. 16th, 1809.

SIR,

Lieut. Reynolds having been so long detained, without entering
into particulars, I shall only mention that peace is on the
point of being signed between Sweden and Russia; an officer
arrived yesterday from Fredericksham, and on the 18th or 20th
the signature is expected. The exclusion of British ships and
merchandise is one of the articles; but those under your
command, and the merchant ships now in the Baltic or at
Gottenburg, M. d'Engestroem has assured me, are to be excepted
from its operations.

I have the honour to enclose to you a copy of the note which I
have this moment received from the Swedish minister, in answer
to the propositions you had made. The minister remarked to me,
that though he should not mention it in the note, yet that he
trusted you, in using the ports of Sweden, would be cautious of