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either immediately, or presently subsequent to that time, of the maritime forcewhich they had before possessed : yet both those countries gave every possible en-couragement to commerce : the subsisting war, to which they were not parties,produced them an incomparable harvest, and they were too sagacious not toprofit to the utmost of their power, by the advantage which fortune appearedto have thrown in their way. On the part of the United Provinces the utmostenergy was apparent, the arsenals and dock-yards belonging to the state ex-hibited a scene of activity and determined conduct extremely unusual, and perhapsunprecedented. It was, however, only the paroxysm of a moment, as on findingBritain was not to be intimidated either by the desertion ofherantient allies, orthe accession of new foes ; the Dutch were content after an action in which oneof their principal ships was sunk, to remain the silent sullen spectators of theflames of war which raged round them, instead of presuming to interpose either infeeding, or attempting to extinguish them. The actually belligerent powers seem-ed to have reached the utmost limits to which their exertions could be carried, sothat the remainder of the war was conducted on rather a more regular routine ofoperation than had been generally customary on such occasions. It displayed noneof those volcanic bursts which had frequently appeared in former contests of thesame nature, and with the Angle interruption to an uninteresting series of occur-rences occasioned by the total defeat of the French fleet, under the orders of theCount de Grasse, the embers of war might rather be said to have gradually diedaway by the operation of time and nature, than to have been extinguished by
SWEDISH Fleet.
Gotha Lejon
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70
Livonia
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40
Koenig Adolf Frederick
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70
Uplandia
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40
Koenig Gustaaf III
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• 70
Zwarte Oern
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38
Louisa Ulrica
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70
Hoken
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36
Prins Carl Frederic
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70
Jaramas
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36
Sophia Magdelana
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70
Illerim
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36
Prins Carl
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64
Prins Gustaaf
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36
Dux Ferdinand
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90
Sodermanlandia
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36
Finlandia
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60
Fredermanlandia
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32
Frederic Rex
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60
Gothlandia
-
32
Prins Frederic Adolf
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66
Jacobdahl
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32
Richfens Stader
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60
Postilion
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32
Sophia Albertina
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60
Abo
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30
Wasa
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60
Upsal
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qs
Gryph
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94
Triton
-
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