The Ordinary Stockholmian Post Times

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The Ordinary Stockholmian Post Times

DOMINUS PROTECTOR MEUS

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Was sorget Ihr doch?

Gott und Ich leben ia noch.

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We Carolus, by the Grace of God King of the Swedes, the Goths and the Vends, Grand Prince of Finland, Heir to Norway, Duke of Scania, Estonia, Livonia and Karelia, Lord of Ingria, Duke of Bremen, Verden and Pomerania, Prince of Rügen and Lord of Wismar, and also Count Palatine by the Rhine, Duke in Bavaria, Count of Zweibrücken–Kleeburg, as well as Duke of Jülich, Cleve and Berg, Count of Veldenz, Spanheim and Ravensberg and Lord of Ravenstein, hereby decree the following:

Anders Erik Ramsay, General Major of the Royal Army and Governor of Västerbotten County, is sentenced to death. His crimes are those of cowardice and treason, for his acts during the so-called Battle of Umeå. When on 18 September 1714 the Imperial Russian Navy landed on Holmön and on the following day reached the vicinity of Umeå, Ramsay led his troops in abandoning the town in fear of the impeding attack, leaving behind both the civilian populace and the regimental war chest of 4,200 copper coins. On the 20th of September, Umeå burned. Its stores were looted beforehand, and its ships seized.

Ramsay will be beheaded for his failure to stand and fight for the two hundred burghers and peasants of Umeå, and for having sullied the name of the Västerbotten Regiment. A new Governor will be appointed shortly. Once the loss of the 4,200 copper coin war chest has been deducted in natura, Ramsay's estates and possessions will be sold at auction, and the winnings used to aid the urban poor of Umeå during the reconstruction of the town.


Signed,
Carolus

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SONS OF FINLAND, ARISE

His Majesty Carolus, Grand Prince of Finland, orders you to stand up against the Russian occupiers, and against the traitors on their side. Do not trust the Perfidious Slav, for he is your enemy. Under the Russians, your enslavement and bondage will continue endlessly. Your women will be defiled, your grain confiscated, your sons castrated for the Tsar's pleasure. They must be resisted.

Let this be known: Upon the recapture of Finland Proper, the estates and properties of every traitor will be confiscated, and redistributed to those who remain loyal. All taxation will be revised significantly and tariffs dropped. Every priest of the land shall be a native son, untainted by Orthodox heresy. The Provincial Things shall be granted extensive local self-government. The Finnish representation at the Riksdag of the Estates will be increased twofold, with the Estate of the Commoners gaining the most seats. The name of Finland shall echo across the water as an equal partner in the dominion of the Baltic Sea, for such is the will of His Majesty and God.

Hakkaa päälle! Cut them down!

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Domestic News for Early 1715

• It Shall Be Rebuilt. Reconstruction of Västerås Town, so pitifully burnt by a book-printer who mishandled his candles last year, is well underway. New wooden townhouses are being built atop the old foundations, and the gardens of Gustav Vasa on the isle Munkholmen have been restored for the first time in a century. Bless.

• Strange Coincidences on the Sea. Captain Prinz, operating out of Karlskrona Harbour with his ship the White Eagle, has sunk a Danish frigate with a crew of 70 men and 24 cannons aboard, strangely named the Black Eagle. Another ship was a set aflame aside it, with only a single sailor lost on Prinz's side during the exchange of fire.

• A Fruity Treasure in Gothenburg. Among several prizes claimed off the West Coast by Captain Anckarcreuz and other privateers, and brought into Gothenburg Harbour just recently, are two Danish galleys en route from Norway to Copenhagen. One of these has been found to carry firewood in its hold, the other a cargo of a most precious kind - wine, lemons, and Appel de Sina, also known as "oranges".

• The Very Best of Books. The fine library of the dearly departed Herr Magister Haldin, priest at the Riddarholm Church, has been auctioned off here in Stockholm. Its contents were most interesting, and yielded high prices. An auction catalogue is available at our office.

• The King's Name Day. Having been written in honour of our merciful King's most pleasant Name Day, the Day of Karl on Friday the 28th of January 1715, this newspaper is now honoured to offer for sale three pieces, entitled "Twelve Grand Kingly Names", "Days of Sorrow Past", and "Divat Carolus Duodecimus Rex Semper Augustus Sweciae".

• The Woman Who Could Speak. It is reported that on the 28th of January (The King's Name-Day!), Ms. Anna Sidonia Morian, the daughter of the esteemed Herr Professor Morian, has in the Hall of the Realm in Stockholm Castle, in the presence of the Royal Family, become one of few women to hold a oratory speech in the Latin language. A copy of the speech is for sale from this newspaper.

• The Star in the North. Furthermore, copies of an oratory speech held in the House of Nobility on the 18th of December 1714, written to rhyme in Swedish verses, is now for sale from this newspaper as well. It is entitled "The Star in the North Has Dawned", and celebrates our merciful King CARL the Twelth's successful return after a perilous stay in Turkey to his realm.