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spirit of faction and discord which 

 already threatens to shut up from 

 the North of Europe the beneficial 

 effects of the general peace. 



Invoking, therefore, the assist- 

 ance of the Almighty in favour of 

 the justice of our cause, we have 

 ordered our well-beloved son, the 

 Prince RoyfiU to advance with all 

 our forces, sup;>orted by those of 

 our allies, upon the frontiers of 

 Norway, to take possession of that 

 kingdom, and there to convoke in 

 our name, and under our royal 

 authorit}', an assembly of the states 

 of the Norwegian people, who 

 after having been freely elected, 

 will be entitled to delibei-ate on a 

 new constitution, calculated to 

 establish the future happiness of 

 the nation, and which shall then 

 be submitted to our royal appro- 

 bation. 



We repeat, on this occasion, 

 with pleasure, that far from desiring 

 ever to infringe on any right or 

 privileges which our Norwegian 

 subjects have enjoyed to the pre- 

 sent hour, we continue them anew, 

 and in the most solemn manner ; 

 persuaded that the happiness and 

 the future tranquillity of the Scan- 

 dinavian peninsula will require no- 

 thing of tiie two nations but the 

 indissoluble union of their recipro- 

 cal interests. 



We therefore, by these presents, 

 declare the diet convoked by Prince 

 Christian criminal and in contempt 

 of our rights as well as those of all 

 lawful sovereigns, and even of 

 those of the Norwegian nation. 

 We farther declare all the acts of 

 authorities constituted by that 

 diet null, and of no value nor 

 obligation ; and we expressly for- 

 bid all our Norwegian subjects to 

 pay obedience to them, or to con- 

 form themtelves to tlicm, in any 



manner whatsoever. We alike 

 order by these presents, all stran- 

 gers who are now in Norway to 

 depart from the kingdom forth- 

 with, or to take the oath of sub- 

 mission and fidelity before our con- 

 stituted authorities, under pain of 

 being punished as rebels or sjiies. 



And to manifest yet more our 

 paternal sentiments for our new 

 snlijects, we promise, in the most 

 solemn manner, favour and par- 

 don to all our native subjects of 

 Norway, who may have been con- 

 sidered until now, as seduced by 

 foreigners, if they hasten to return 

 to their duty as subjects, and to 

 obey with zeal and submission all 

 the laws and ordinances which we 

 have caused to be published to 

 that effect. Charles. 



Proclamation of the Prince Royal 

 of Sweden to the Norwegians. 



Norwegians ! 

 Destined by nature to an union 

 with the Swedish nation, your fate 

 was decided when the King of 

 Denmark ceded to Sweden, by the 

 peace of Kiel, his rights over 

 Norway. The advantages which 

 your old sovereign derived from 

 that peace are known to you. He 

 obtained, immediately after its 

 signature, the evacuation of the 

 duchies of Schlesvig and Hol>tein, 

 the restoration of the fortresses of 

 Gluckstadt and Fredericsort, an 

 acknowledgment of the Sound du- 

 ties, the giving up of more than 

 twelve millions of contributions 

 imposed on the duchies, the re- 

 nunciation of an equal sum for 

 captures made during peace; a 

 considerable sum in money, of 

 which part has been paid ; and 

 finally, the promise of the cession 



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