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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814.. 



CHAPTER IV. 



Affairs of Norway — Treaties of Denmark with Stveden ami England- 

 Feelings of the Norwegians — Prince Christian Frederick repairs to 

 Christiana — His Reception — Proceeds to Drontheim — Returns to 

 Christiana, and is declared Regent — His Proclamations — Count 

 Rose7i's Mission from Sweden — Address of the King of Denmark to 

 the Norwegians — Mr. Ankefs Deputation to England — Notification 

 of the Blockade of Noncay by the English — Parties in Norioay — 

 Diet — Christian proclaimed King, and the Diet dissolved — Mr. 

 Morier, Envoy from England — Delegation from the three Allied 

 Powers — Armistice proposed and rejected — State Papers — Envoy's 

 Return and Preparationfor War — Proclamation of the Crown Prince 

 of Sweden to the Norwegians — Commencement of Hostilities — Nor- 

 wegian Flotilla retreats — Swedes cross the Frontier — Actions — Fre- 

 derickstadt capitulates — Further Success of the Swedes — Frederick- 

 stein bombarded — Preparations to surround Christian'' s Army — He 

 resigns — Convention at Moss — Christian's Proclamation to the 

 Norwegians — Tmnult at Christiana — State of Affairs before the 

 Convention — The Diet assembled — Christian's Departure — Election 

 of the King of Sweden to the Crown of Norway — Close of the Diet. 



X^THILST the grand contest in 

 ^ " France was proceeding in a 

 manner that foreboded a speedy 

 termination, a cloud was gathering 

 in the North, which was to pro- 

 duce a new storm of war, and for a 

 time retard the restoration of the 

 general tranquillity of Europe, It 

 was clearly discernible at the close 

 of the last year that Denmark, de- 

 serted by the ally to whose fortune 

 her's had unhappily been attached, 

 and invaded by a force to which 

 she had nothing adequate to op- 

 pose, had no other part to take 

 than that of acquiescence in the 

 conditions imposed upon her, of 

 which the most galling was, un- 

 doubtedly, the resignation of that 

 portion of her dominions to which 

 she owed one of her crowns, and 



a great part of her consequence. 

 Her submission was sealed by trea- 

 ties of peace concluded at Kiel, on 

 January 14th, with the Sovereigns 

 of Sweden and Great Britain. In 

 the first of these, after a declara- 

 tion of the renewal of peace and 

 amity between Denmark and Swe- 

 den, the King of Sweden engages 

 his mediation for the same purpose 

 with Russia and Prussia ; and, on 

 the other hand, the King of Den- 

 mark engages to take an active 

 part in the common cause against 

 the French Emperor. The entire 

 and perpetual cession of Norway 

 by Denmark, and of Pomerania 

 and the isle of Rugen by Sweden, 

 is then declared, and reciprocal 

 stipulations are made for the pre- 

 servation of the rights and privi- 



