558 Portia's travels in Sweden :
bomb of eighty-eight pounds, betides at the fame time one of forty pounds *. M. deKiercher is employed on the map of Finland .
Diftributed among the three llations of the fleet at Sweabourg, Stockholm , and Abo,there are one hundred and thirty-three gun boats, fixty-three yawls, forty galleys anddemi-galleys, about forty fquare built {hips, fuch as frigates, xebecs, cutters, &c. AtLandfcrona, a fourth ftation is to be formed, on the plan of that of Abo. For man-ning this fleer there are one thoufand two hundred and feventy-five men regiftered, thatis to fay, eight hundred and twenty-five in Finland, and four hundred and fifty in Swe-den : the eight hundred and twenty-five are divided into fourteen companies, two ofwhich, of one hundred men each, for the two colonels at Sweabourg and Abo; threeof feventy-five, for the lieutenant-colonel and the two majors at Sweabourg ; and eightof fifty, commanded by captains. The four hundred and fifty in Sweden form fevencompanies, four of which of feventy-five men each, and three of fifty. The companiesremain the fame in time of war : they are engaged for fix years, receive 3 plottes permonth, and two pounds of bread per diem. Every three years they have furni/hedthem a jacket, waiftcoat, and three pair of breeches of blue cloth, which cofts 36 fchil-lings an ell; two coats and two pair of breeches of coarfe grey cloth f, and two waift-coats of coarfe unbleached cloth f; three pair of long pantaloons, and three aprons oflail-cloth, which colt from 5 to 8 fchillings per ell; three pair of flioes, (1 rix-dollareight fchillings,) and three pair of foies; four fhirts and four pair of woollen ftockings(one with another from 16 to 20 {killings); two pair of long rolled up hofe, whichcover the thigh; two pair of leathern overalls; a hat (untrimmed 32 {killings, withthe band and hoop, &c. 24—1 rix-dollar 8 fchillings); and a hair fiiifener for theneck (16 fchillings). The cloak is given only once in nine years, the knapfack onceinfix years, and themulketand bayonet the fame (6 rix-dollars).
At Sweabourg we faw fome fix-pounders, which had as many as forty calibers. Ex-periments have been made of cannon to move on a pivot, but without fuccefs. Wehad fome Ruffian pieces {hewn us almoft as long as cannon, the mouths of which wereten inches in diameter, and from which they fire thirty three-pounders at a time; theywill carry from five to fix hundred fathoms; the Ruffians place two of them on thepoop of their Ships. 1
There is an eighth ifland, perfectly contiguous to that in which the fortrefs is fitu-ated, whence, in cafe of the enemy getting a ftation, it might be fuccefsfully attacked.It is in contemplation to fortify it, which is highly neceffary, for it would be an eafymatter to bombard thence, under cover of the rocks, not only the fortrefs but the flo-tilla in the harbour alfo. If the engagement of the 9th of July had had a different re-fult, it was intended that Sweabourg fhould have been attacked, and from this iflandwas it they meant it fhould be bombarded. The Ruffians are in poffeflion of very exaftplans of this fortrefs, given them by the traitor Springporten J.
The principal court of the fortrefs is regular and handfome : at the bottom is thegovernor’s houfe, well furnifhed, nay much better than could be looked for on a rockin the middle of the fea. In the court is a tomb elevated fome few fteps; it is that ofMr, Ehrenfvard, the governor of the place, who formed the plan of the fortrefs. In
* At the map.and chart office at Stockholm , fome very handfome charts of the Baltic and the Gnlphof Finland , by Vice-Admiral Nordenanker, may be procured. There were feven published in 179 r, whichnumber is to be made up ten : they are reported to be minutely corredt, and coll but 24 {killings each.There are alfo three charts of lake Wener.
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f We have been affured even at Petevfburg that the Ruffians had friends in the fortrefs, upon whomthey could depend j but this we are unwilling to believe.
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