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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814. 



SWEDISH DECLARATION. 



His Majesty the King of Swe- 

 den having declared to the people 

 of Norway, by the Proclamation 

 addressed to them, that he reserved 

 to them all the essential rights 

 which constitute public liberty, 

 and having engaged himself ex- 

 pressly to leave to the nation the 

 faculty of establishing a constitu- 

 tion analogous to the wants of the 

 country, and founded chiefly upon 

 the two bases of national represen- 

 tation and the right of taxing them- 

 selves ; these promises are now 

 renewed in the most formal man- 

 ner. The King will by no means 

 interfere directly in the New Con- 

 stitutional Act of Norway, which 

 must, however, be submitted for 

 his acceptance. He wishes only to 

 trace the first lines of its founda- 

 tion, leaving to the people the right 

 of erecting the rest of the building. 



His Majesty is also invariably 

 determined not to amalgamate the 

 financial systems of the two 

 countries. In consequence of this 

 principle, the debts of the two 

 crowns shall always remain sepa- 

 rate from each other, and no tax 

 shall be collected in Norway for 

 the purpose of paying the debts of 

 Sweden, and vice versa. The in- 

 tention of his Miijesty is not to 

 suffer the revenue of Norway to be 

 sent out of the country. The ex- 

 pense of administration being de- 

 ducted, the rest shall be employed 

 in objects of general utility, and in 

 a sinking fund for the extermina- 

 tion of the national debt. 



Circular Letter from the King of 

 Denmark, addressed to the Ma- 

 gistrates, and the Inhabitants in 



general, of the Kingdom of Nor- 

 way : — 



The situation in which Den- 

 mark and Norway were at the end 

 of last year, made it our duty as 

 Sovereign to give up one of the 

 sister kingdoms to prevent the 

 ruin of both. 



The Treaty of Peace conclud- 

 ed at Kiel on the 14th of January, 

 this year, was the consequence. — 

 By this we gave the solemn pro- 

 mise, which never has been, nor 

 shall be broken on our side, to re- 

 nounce all our claims to Norwaj', 

 and to appoint Commissioners to 

 deliver the fortresses, the public 

 money, domains, &c. to the Pleni- 

 potentiaries named by the King of 

 ISweden. Wecommanded his High- 

 ness Prince Christtian, then Go- 

 vernor of Norway, to execute in 

 our name what we had promised. 

 We gave him the most positive in- 

 structions, and on the 19th of Ja- 

 nuary gave him our Royal full 

 powers for the persons whom he 

 should appoint to execute the 

 treaty. Then we released all the 

 inhabitants of Norway from their 

 allegiance, and impressed on them 

 the duties which for the future 

 they owed to the King of Sweden. 



We have learnt with heartfelt 

 grief, that our nearest and most 

 beloved relation, lo whom we gave 

 the government of Norway with 

 unlimited confidence, instead of 

 executing our commands, has ven- 

 tured tu neglect them, and even 

 to declare Norway an independent 

 kingdom, and himself the Regent 

 of it ; to refuse to give up what 

 the King of Sweden had a right, 

 according to the treaty, to de- 

 mand ; and finally, that he has 

 even seized upon our ships of war 



