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and that thej' were masters of the 

 left bank of the Glommen from 

 lake Oejorn to Frederickstadt. It 

 charges tlie Danish officers with 

 being the cause of keeping up the 

 hostility of the Norwegians, who, 

 nevertheless, are said to desert the 

 army in numbers, and that the in- 

 habitants of the towns and villages 

 come in crowds to take the oath 

 of allegiance. This unequal con- 

 test was now rapidly drawing to a 

 conclusion. The next Swedish 

 bulletin mentioned that General 

 Alderereutz had fo.ced the strong 

 position of the Norwegians at 

 Isebro on the 10th ; that on the 

 11th the abandoned port and bat- 

 teries of Sleswig had been taken 

 possession of; and that General 

 Vegesac had defeated, with great 

 loss, the enemy, who had 6,000 

 men and 10 pieces of cannon. On 

 the 12th preparations were made 

 for passing the Glommen, and on 

 the next day the bombardment of 

 Frederickstein was commenced. 

 The passage of Kgolberg was forced 

 after a brave resistance, and the 

 Crown Prince made dispositions for 

 surrounding, with a very superior 

 force, the army of Prince Chris- 

 tian, posted near Moss. Further 

 resistance would now have been 

 mere desperation and an useless 

 sacrifice of lives. Christian made 

 proposals, which the Crown Prince 

 accepted. He resigned the go- 

 vernment, and gave orders for the 

 surrender of Frederickstein, that 

 famous fortress of Frederickshall 

 before which Charles XII. lost his 

 life, just as orders were about to be 

 given for planting the scaling lad- 

 ders. A convention was signed on 

 August 14th, at Moss, between 

 the Crown Prince, in the name of 

 the King of Sweden, and the Nor- 



wegian government, of which the 

 following are the articles : 1. 

 Prince Christian shall, as soon as 

 possible, convoke the States-general 

 of Norway according to the mode 

 prescribed by the existing consti- 

 tution : 2. The King of Sweden 

 shall communicate with the diet 

 by his commissioners : 3. The 

 King promises to accept the con- 

 stitution framed by the diet of Es- 

 wold, with no other changes than 

 are necessary to the union of the 

 two kingdoms, and will make no 

 further alterations but in concert 

 with the diet : 4. The promises of 

 the King and Prince Royal to the 

 Norwegians shall be strictly ful- 

 filled : 5. The diet shall assemble 

 at Christiana : 6. Amnesty is 

 declared for all past expression of 

 opinions, and good treatment is 

 promised to all Norwegian civil 

 and military functioaaries : 7. The 

 King of Sweden engages his good 

 offices with the king of Denmark 

 to obtain a revocation of all ordi- 

 nances promulgated since January 

 14, 1814, against the public func- 

 tionaries and the kingdom of Nor- 

 way. A convention was at the 

 same time concluded between the 

 Swedish and the Norwegian troops, 

 by which were declared a cessation 

 of hostilities, and the raising of 

 the blockade of the Norwegian 

 ports, with various regulations as 

 to the disbanding of the Norwe- 

 gian national troops, four regular 

 regiments excepted, to the number 

 of the Swedish troops to remain in 

 the kingdom, the line of demar- 

 kation, &c. with a particular stipu- 

 lation that, in order to secure the 

 freedom of deliberation in the diet, 

 no troops of either cbuntjy should 

 approach within three miles (Swe- 

 dish) of the place of its' sitting. 



