GENERAL HISTORY. 



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CHAPTER IX. 



Debate in both Houses on the Swedish Treaty. ^Discussion in the House 

 of Commons respecting Orange Lodges in England. — Vote of Credit. — 

 Prorogation of Parliament, and Prince Regenfs Speech. 



ON June 11th the " Treaty of 

 Concert and Subsidy be- 

 tween his Britannic majesty and 

 the king of Sweden'' was laid be- 

 fore both Houses of Parliament. 

 The following are its principal 

 articles. The King of Sweden 

 engages to employ a corps of not 

 less than 30,000 men in a direct 

 operation on the coniinent against 

 the common foe, in concert with 

 the Russian troops under the com- 

 mand of the prince royal of Swe- 

 den, according to stipulations al- 

 ready existing between the courts 

 of Stockholm and Petersburgh. His 

 Britannic majesty accedes to the 

 conventions made between those 

 two powers, in so much as not 

 only to oppose no obstacle to the 

 annexation of Norway to the king- 

 dom of Sweden, but to assist, if 

 necessary, in obtaining that ob- 

 ject by a naval co-operation ; it 

 being however understood, that re- 

 course shall not be had to force, 

 unless the king of Denmark shall 

 previously have refused to join 

 the alliance of tlie north upon the 

 conditions stipulated in the engage- 

 menis between the courts of Stock- 

 holm and Petersburgh. His Bri- 

 tannic majc-ty engages, inde- 

 pendently of other succours, to 

 furniiih to Sweden for the service 

 of the present campaign, the sum 



of one million sterling. He also 

 cedes to the king of Sweden the 

 possession of the island of Guada- 

 loupe in the West Indies, and 

 transfers to him all his rights over 

 that island. The king of Sweden 

 reciprocally grants to the subjects 

 of his Britannic majesty, for twen- 

 ty years, the right of entrepot in 

 the ports of Gottenburgh, Carl- 

 sham, and Stralsund for all com- 

 modities of Great Britain, or her 

 colonies, upon a duty of one per 

 cent, ad valorem. 



A separate article, added to the 

 treaty, relates to the conditions on 

 which Guadaloupeis to be held by 

 Sweden. See State Papers. 



Notice was given in each House, 

 of a day for taking this treaty into 

 consideration. 



On June 14th, Earl Grey rose 

 in the House of Lords to put some 

 questions to the earl of Liverpool 

 respecting the Swedish treaty. 

 He recited the article relative to 

 the annexation of Norway to the 

 crown of Sweden, and observing 

 that Great Britain was bound to 

 co-operate by force in its acquisi- 

 tion in the event of a refusal of 

 the court of Denmark to accede to 

 the northern alliance upon certain 

 terms not yet known to their lord- 

 ships, he wished to be informed' 

 what were the conditions in the 



