1827 SWEDISH ROYAL PROCLAMATION
ON HOW TO BE A BETTER BUREAUCRAT

Royal Announcement from King Charles XIV and the Parliament concerning the responsibility that officials have to make sure papers added to files are properly marked and have the right stamps on them. An account of how to properly and correctly stamp official papers. Swedish bureaucracy at its finest.

Contents in Swedish. Condition: Very Fine Black Print Broadside on single sheet, on batonne laid paper, bifolium into four pages. Text on two pages. Handstamped with Faint Black Boxed Crown Postmark showing postal delivery through the Swedish Royal Crown Post to Löderup, Skäne, for public proclamation. Measures 183mm wide x 210mm tall folded.

King Charles XIV John - Karl XIV Johan
House of Bernadotte
January 26, 1763 – March 8, 1844
Reigned as King of Sweden and Norway (as Karl III Johan)
from 1818 until his death in 1844

Svensk Kronopost - Swedish Royal Crown Post
with Handstamp Black Boxed Crown Postmark

Post Detail:

 Black Boxed Crown Postmark
 of the Royal Crown Post

The Faint Black Boxed Crown Postal Handstamp indicates that this was to be sent through the Royal Swedish Crown Post. The text below indicates it was sent to a church in Löderup, in Skäne near Ystad, in the southeast of Sweden, where it was to be publicly proclaimed.

In 1810 Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, a Field Marshall of the French Army under Napoleon, was about to enter upon his new post of governor of Rome when he was, unexpectedly, elected heir to King Charles XIII of Sweden, partly because a large part of the Swedish Army, in view of future complications with Russia, were in favour of electing a soldier, and partly because Bernadotte was very popular in Sweden, owing to the kindness he had shown to the Swedish prisoners during the late war with Denmark. The matter was precipitated by a Swedish Noble, Baron Karl Otto Mörner, who, entirely on his own initiative, offered the succession to the Swedish crown to Bernadotte. Bernadotte communicated Mörner's offer to Napoleon, who treated the whole affair as an absurdity. Bernadotte thereupon informed Mörner that he would not refuse the honour if he were duly elected. Although the Swedish government, amazed at Mörner's effrontery, placed him under arrest on his return to Sweden, the candidature of Bernadotte gradually gained favour there, and, on August 21, 1810, he was elected Crown Prince and made Generalissimus of the Swedish Armed Forces. On November 2 1810 Bernadotte made his solemn entry into Stockholm, and on November 5 he received the homage of the estates and was adopted by Charles XIII under the name of "Charles John" (Karl Johan). The new crown prince was very soon the most popular and the most powerful man in Sweden. Bernadotte proved anything but a puppet of France. In 1813 he allied Sweden with Napoleon's enemies Britain and Prussia of the Sixth Coalition, in order to cripple Denmark and secure the acquisition of Norway for Sweden. , He succeeded to the title of Charles XIV John in 1818 following the death of Charles XIII and was popular in both countries despite his ultra-conservatism as he reigned over a twenty-five period of peace and prosperity. He was succeeded by his son, Oscar I of Sweden and Norway.

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