A Swedish gentleman, resident in Stockholm, and who was there
when Lord Durham visited Bernadotte on his route from St. Peters- burg, writes to us, that the English Earl was almost overdone by the civilities of his Swedish Majesty. He repeatedly dined with the King at his summer palace in the Park of Stockholm ; his Majesty talking very Liberal politics,—in compliment to his noble guest, we suppose, as Bernadotte is a sort of Tory. 1Viren the friends parted, the King em- braced the Earl most tenderly. There was some difficulty in procuring a suitable conveyance for Lord Durham from Stoekholim to Gottenburg by the Gotha Canal ; so the King hired and elegantly fitted up a steam- ve,sel on purpose.
After lie had left Stockholm, the Swedish 111inerva, a professedly Liberal paper, began to abuse Lord Durham, for having modified his Liberalism under the influence of Imperial cijoleries at St. Peters- burg; where, said the journalist, he was seen frequently walking arm- in-arm with the Emperor Nicholas in time Park of Peterhoff. " Grand Vizier of the Revolution" is the nickname given by this malecontent to Lord Durham. Generally, however, the people of Stockholm were delighted to see one whom our Swedish friend calls "the future hope of all the true Reformers in England."
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