STATE PAPERS. 



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>vhich were in the harbours of 

 Norway, has taken down the Da- 

 nish flag, and hoisted another in 

 its stead, and arrested their com- 

 manders, our servants. 



Since, after the treaty of peace 

 which we have signed, and the re- 

 nunciation of our claims on Nor- 

 way, we neither do nor will ac- 

 knowledge in that kingdom any 

 other authority than that of his 

 Majesty the King of Sweden, we 

 cannot but be highly displeased at 

 what has been done there, con- 

 trary to the treaty and our express 

 orders ; and the more so, as every 

 civil officer, from the highest to 

 the lowest, who had been appoint- 

 ed by us, as well as every other of 

 our subjects in Norway, is releas- 

 ed from his allegiance and duties 

 towards us, on the sole condition 

 of fulfilling, as far as he is concern- 

 ed, the stipulations of the treaty of 

 peace. 



At the same time that we 

 make this known, we forbid every 

 one of the officers whom we have 

 nominated in Norway to accept 

 or to retain anj'^ employment what- 

 ever, in that kingdom in its pre- 

 sent state ; we recall all the civil 

 officers in the kingdom of Nor- 

 way who are not natives of that 

 country, and who regard Denmark, 

 or any of the countries belonging 

 to it, as their native country ; and 

 command them to return within 

 four weeks from the time when 

 they shall be made acquainted 

 with this letter, under pain of for- 

 feitingour favour,andall therights, 

 advantages, and privileges, which 

 they do or might enjoy as native 

 Danish subjects. 



Given at our Court at Copenhagen, 

 April lath, 1814. 



Declaration of the Allied Poivers 

 on the Breaking Off of the Ne- 

 gociations at Chatillon. 



The Allied Powers owe it to 

 themselves, to their people, and to 

 France, as soon as the negociations 

 at Chatillon are broken off", pub- 

 licly to declare the reasons which 

 induced them to enter into nego- 

 ciations with the French Govern- 

 ment, as well as the causes of the 

 breaking oft" of the negociations. 



Military events, to which his- 

 tory can produce no parallel, over- 

 threw in the month of October last, 

 the ill-constructed edifice, known 

 under the name of the French 

 Empire ; an edifice erected on the 

 ruins of States lately independent 

 and happy, augmented by con- 

 quests from ancient monarchies, 

 and held together at the expense of 

 the blood, of the fortunes, of the 

 welfare of a whole generation. 



The Allied Sovereigns, led by 

 conquest to the Rhine, thought it 

 their duty to proclaim to Europe 

 anew, their principles, their wishes, 

 and their object. Far from every 

 wish of domination or conquest, 

 animated solely by the desire to see 

 Europe restored to a just balance 

 of the different Powers, resolved 

 not to lay down their arms till they 

 had obtained the noble object of 

 their efforts, they made known the 

 irrevocableness of their resolu- 

 tions by a public act, and they did 

 not hesitate to declare themselves to 

 the enemy's Government in a man- 

 ner conformable to their unaltera- 

 ble determination. 



The French Government made 

 use of the frank declarations of the 

 Allied Powers to express inclina- 

 tions to peace. It certainly had 



