146] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



plans for restricting Inxury, by 

 which the use of foreign articles 

 will be much circumscribed. 

 Their importation of late year.-< 

 has risen to the amount of 20 

 millions of rix dollais, whilst the 

 exports liave little evceeded nine 

 millions ; a drain ahsolutelv riiin- 

 ons to so poor a nut ion. Plan^ 

 are also in agitation for enalilini; 

 the national hank to pny oif tiie 

 paper mono\ in spe<:ic, uliich, 

 hoivevcr, cannot he brought to 

 effect without the sauclion of the 

 States, whence a uru meeting of 

 the Diet is expected. Of the mi- 

 litary conscriptinn. divided into 

 tive clas.-.cs, the hrst class, amount- 

 ing to 7O,0<X) men, is to be called 

 out, armed and exercised for an- 

 imal service In this nuinl)e/ is 

 not inclnded llie. fsfanding army 

 of nearly 42,()fM> men. part of 

 which IMC provincial regiments, 

 raised and maintiiincd by the 

 landed proprietors, 



.V national bank for Norway 

 has b«'n established at ( hj'istj- 

 ani.T. 



Near thetoni')'J>if'n of the year, 

 reports were s))iead ol great dis- 

 turbances prevailing among the 

 peasantry of Norway . avIi" were 

 reduced to extreme distre.i.s by a 

 dearth, uhich emjid nf>! f.iil of 

 pressing at- tlii> ])(-i"io(l \. iih ex- 

 iraordinan- severity, in n tountry 

 almost al\\a\s labouring under a 

 degree of >;car<'itv. The inhabi- 

 tants of the interior are said to 

 haM' been jiartlcularly rx;isper.'ited 

 against the mercantile population 

 of the sea-ports, to whose inf<.^r- 

 ests thev stipposed themselves sa- 

 crificed. 



Denmark. Re.spectingtbis king- 

 dom, the most memorable eircum- 

 stflnce of the ^^or relntM Vi the 



transactions between the unit«d 

 duchy of Slcswick and Holstein, 

 ami the crown. The permanent 

 .Assembly of Prelates and Knights 

 of this fluchy, published a collec- 

 tion of their most important acts, 

 1 wo of « Inch are said to have 

 ]ir(Hluced an extraordinary sensa- 

 tion on the continent. In the 

 first of these, a writ froui the 

 roval chancer\ of the duchy to 

 the jTermanent committee of pre- 

 lates, &r. mentions, that their 

 petition of March 7th, and like- 

 wise their remonstrances eon- 

 eerniug the future condition of 

 the duchies, had been submitted 

 to his Majesty by the chancery, 

 which had thereupon been com- 

 missioned by his Majesty to make 

 known to the committee, that the 

 internal management of the duchy » 

 m^*^t continue, as it had been re- 

 gulated by the royal resolution 

 of the fith of September in the 

 la-,f year, and that the King 

 would hereafter determine more 

 precisely the time f.ir carrying 

 into etfect any other resolutions, 

 touching the matter in question. 

 This document was dated May 7tii. 

 The counniitc'i reidy. That the 

 permanent committee had re- 

 ceivKl with gratitud<' the assur- 

 ;mcesof;i new constitution to be 

 given them : but that they per- 

 ceive with deep concern, that the 

 lK;rimJ for the accomplishment of 

 -^ desirable an object was left in- 

 definite, and lo depend upon the 

 future will and decision and will 

 of his Majesty. They feel the 

 more regret on this account, ;ia 

 they have daily opportunities of 

 vvitncssiiig the painful anxiety of J 

 all ranks on the subject. They[ 

 also could not forbear to con- 

 fess that, fully relying on the] 



royalj 



