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Oliver said, when the fleet was to go forth, 'That if God blessed his Majesty of Sweden with Copenhagen, the English were to have Elsinore as their share; which if once I have, saith Oliver, 'the English shall have the whole trade of the Baltick Sea: I will make the Dutch find another passage, except they will pay such customs as I shall impose. Considering the advantages this would have been to our English, who can blame my pen for being liberal, thereby to have encouraged our famous and noble seamen, or for writing so honourably of the Swedish nation, who had most courteously treated my best of friends, Sir Bolstrode Whitlock, and by whose means, had the design taken effect, the English nation had been made happy with the most beneficial concern of all Christendom.
The fourth is called Duyna, many hundred miles long, that falleth Northward into the bay of S. Nicholas, and hath great Alabaster rockes on the bankes towards the sea side. The fifth Duna, that emptieth into the Baltick sea by the towne Riga. The sixt Onega, that falleth into the Bay at Solouetsko 90. verst from the port of S. Nicholas.
Mackenzie continues: 'Hic primus nos a Syllogismorum servitute manumisit et Aristotelem Demostheni potius quam Ciceroni forum concedere coegit. P. 6. See ante ii. 435 and iv. 149, note 3. See ante, i. 103. See ante ii 436 See ante, i. 65. On Sept. 13, 1777, Johnson wrote: 'Boswell shrinks from the Baltick expedition, which, I think, is the best scheme in our power. Ante, iii. 134, note 1.
For mercy's sake, let us think no more about it, but travel on as fast as we can southwards into Norway crossing over Swedeland, if you please, through the small triangular province of Angermania to the lake of Bothmia; coasting along it through east and west Bothnia, down to Carelia, and so on, through all those states and provinces which border upon the far side of the Gulf of Finland, and the north-east of the Baltick, up to Petersbourg, and just stepping into Ingria; then stretching over directly from thence through the north parts of the Russian empire leaving Siberia a little upon the left hand, till we got into the very heart of Russian and Asiatick Tartary.
Thrale; Letters, vol. i. p. 366: 'Ashbourne, Sept. 13, 1777. 'BOSWELL, I believe, is coming. He talks of being here to day: I shall be glad to see him: but he shrinks from the Baltick expedition, which, I think, is the best scheme in our power: what we shall substitute I know not.
We see their Armies now form'd into regular Battalions; and their Strelitz Musqueteers, a People equivalent to the Turks Janizaries, cloath'd like our Guards, firing in Platoons, and behaving themselves with extraordinary Bravery and Order. We see their Ships now compleatly fitted, built and furnish'd, by the English and Dutch Artists, and their Men of War Cruize in the Baltick.
The pleasure is, I think, greater than it reasonably should be, considering that we had not much either of beauty or elegance to charm our imaginations, or of rude novelty to astonish. Let us, by all means, have another expedition. I shrink a little from our scheme of going up the Baltick . I am sorry you have already been in Wales; for I wish to see it.
'I shrink a little from our scheme of going up the Baltick: I am sorry you have already been in Wales; for I wish to see it. Ante, iii. 134. Four days later Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale: 'Boswell shrinks from the Baltick expedition, which, I think, is the best scheme in our power: what we shall substitute I know not.
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