444 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814. 



the chitf magistrates, caused our 

 Extraordinary Diet to be summon- 

 ed to meet at Christiana, on Fri- 

 day, the 7th of October, tliis year. 



Beloved people of Norway, only 

 imperious necessity — this you can- 

 not doubt — could have induced us 

 to take a step which your attach- 

 ment to us renders doubly painful. 

 Our desire was to deserve your 

 love — our comfort is the conviction 

 of your sentiments and the consci- 

 ousness that your welfare was tlie 

 object of all our actions. 



Given at Moss, Aug. 16, 1814, 

 under our hand and the seal of the 

 kingdom. 



Christian Fredkrick. 

 (L. S.) Von Holten. 



PROCLAMATION. — HANOVER. 



George, Prince Regent, in the name 

 and on the behalf of his Majesty, 

 our Father and Sovereii^n, George 

 HI. Sfc. 



The principles according to 

 which our ancestors, for centuries, 

 governed their States, are a suffi- 

 cient guarantee to our subjects, 

 that it lias never been our inten- 

 tion to take advantage of tiie over- 

 throw of the Germanic Constitu- 

 tion by the restriction of their 

 rights. Since the deliverance of 

 the Electorate, the military circum- 

 stances in which Germany found 

 herself placed, and the continual 

 presence of foreign troops-, prevent- 

 ed us from forming regular delibe- 

 rations v\ith our faitiiful States, as 

 the measures which it was neces- 

 sary to take would not allow of the 

 Ifast delay, and ;.s most of the ar- 

 rangements which they dictated 

 were necessary to be executed ac- 



cording to the resolutions agreed 

 upon between the Allied Sove- 

 reigns. Nevertheless, we have de- 

 liberated separately with the States j 

 of the different provinces on the ' 

 affairs of the country, as often as 

 was possible. Although the State 

 may not have a complete Constitu- 

 tion before the issue of the Con- 

 gress of Vienna, which we hope 

 will be fortunate, and although 

 the resolutions which may be 

 adopted at it may have a decisive 

 influence over the internal rela- 

 tions of the German Provinces of 

 his Majesty, yet we have wished 

 not to defer any longer the entering 

 upon discussions with ail the Unit- 

 ed States of our provinces relative 

 to the different objects which con- 

 cern each in particular. It is na- 

 tural, as has been proved by expe- 

 rience, that the separation of the 

 different provinces should render 

 extremely difficult the concurrence 

 of the States, on questions which 

 relate to the general affairs of the 

 country, and that this separation 

 must necessarily cause a consider- 

 able loss of time. But besides, the 

 difference of opinions has hitherto 

 rendered it impossible to have an 

 unanimous resolution on the part 

 of those States, either because the 

 representatives of each province in 

 particular did not possess the right 

 of deliberating on the relations of 

 the other provinces of tlie country, 

 or because it was impossible to 

 have an absolute majority of voices, 

 on account of the distance of the 

 different countries from each other. 

 This separation has produced as 

 many dififerent sj'stems for tax- 

 ation, and the modes of liquidating 

 the debts of the country, as there 

 were different states. It was ne- 

 cessary to consider as separate 



