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perhaps mutter a few flight complaints againft Denmark; 
but open war alone could have afforded ground for fo vio¬ 
lent a meafure ; and, by making the promife of an in¬ 
demnity, they virtually gave up the claims founded on 
Inch allegations. As to the indemnity itSelf, Denmark was 
certainly very hardly treated, in being required to give up 
an ancient and integral part of her kingdom, for countries 
which, contrary to all vifible human appearance, were to 
be conquered for her at fome future period. To render 
the meafure at all jutf, her content was neceffary, which 
however the terms of the treaty Showed not to be expelled. 
Even had it been obtained, this fyftem of transferring 
Subjects from hand to hand, by exchange, like herds of 
cattle, however conformable to the French fyftem of ar- 
rondijfement, is by no means functioned by the foundelt 
views of political morality. Upon the balls of the above 
treaty, another was concluded with Sweden by the Britifli 
cabinet. In this convention it was ftipulated, that, in 
consideration of Bernadotte employing 30,000 men to Co¬ 
operate with the,Ruffian armies on the continent, he 
fhenlJ receive from Britain a monthly fubfidyof ioo,oool. 
Sterling. He was to receive alfo, in perpetuity, the pof- 
feffion of the ifland of Guadaloupe, which had been con¬ 
quered from France by the Britifli naval force. Iu fine, 
the arrangement with regard to Norway was guaranteed, 
and aid promifed for carrying it into effeft, provided that 
Denmark lhould refufe to join her arms to thofe of the 
allies. 
We entreat our readers to forget, if it fiiould have come 
to their knowledge, that, after our Seizure of the Danifh 
fleet in 1807, the emperor of Ruflia publifhed a Declara¬ 
tion, on the 31ft of Oftober in that year, wherein he pro- 
tefls again(1 “an aft of violence of which hiftory, fo fer¬ 
tile in examples, does not furnifh a fingle paralleland 
“ engages that there fliall be no re-eftabli!lunent of con¬ 
cord between Ruflia and England, till Satisfaction fliall 
Lave been given to Denmark.” For, (liould our readers 
recolleft this, with what feelings mutt they now perufe a 
treaty between Ruflia and England, in the Name of the 
moft holy and indivisible Trinity the effeft of which 
was to be the farther difinemberment of this much-in¬ 
jured power! 
It is doubtful, however, if this iniquitous treaty will 
ever be fulfilled ; for, even when Denmark was perfudded 
or forced to yield, it appears that general count d’Eflen, 
who was appointed to take poffeflion of that new acquisi¬ 
tion, apprifed theSwedifli government, that prince Chrif- 
tian-Frederic, the former chief-governor, fo far from 
obeying the reiterated orders of the court of Denmark, 
had declared himfelf Regent of Norway. The following 
particulars have alfo tranfpired :—He had received, on 
his departure for Norway, fecret orders to preferve, by 
every poflible means, this kingdom, until the general 
peace, in cafe Denmark (liould be forced to cede it. 
This order not having been politively revoked in the fir ft 
letter of the king of Denmark, to the prince, dated the 
17th of January, 1814, the latter proceeded to Drontheim, 
to excite the Spirit of the inhabitants of that province. 
Seeing his meafures approved by them, he gave orders for 
affembling the troops, and for augmenting the number by 
a conteription. At the fame time Several perfons of di 1- 
tinftion were invited to affemble at Eidevvall. There the 
prince opened the conference by a fpeech, in which he 
dwelt on the neceflity of maintaining union at the mo¬ 
ment of ferment which had occurred, it being announced 
that the inhabitants of the north of Norway would de- 
fcend from their mountains to exterminate every Norwe¬ 
gian who (liould Submit to a foreign dominion ; and the 
ferment not being lefs which had manifetted itf'elf in the 
Southern part of the kingdom. Thus, not only the com¬ 
mandant of Fredericfhali refufed to furrender the citadel 
of that place to the Swedes, but the anniversary of the 
-birth of the king of Denmark (Jan.^17, 1814,) was cele¬ 
brated at Christiana by a repaft, at which all the civil and 
military funftionaries affifted. To give more eclat to 
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this ceremony, the butt of the king was placed in the 
hall, over which waved the Danifh flag. After drinking, 
for the !aft time, the health of Feed eric VI. this flag was 
removed, amidft a discharge of cannon, and that of Nor¬ 
way fubftituted. They then drank the health-of prince 
Chrittian, under the title of Olof IV. King of Norway. 
To return from this digrettion.—When thefe treaties 
between Sweden, Ruflia, and England, were firfl con¬ 
cluded, Denmark was in a Itate of amicable relation with 
France and, fo long as that power remained predomi¬ 
nant in the north of Germany, it could not be expected 
that flie would endanger her continental poffeffions by 
engaging in hoftilities againft it. But, when the tri¬ 
umphant arms of Ruflia poured down upon Holflein and 
the Elbe, her fentiments underwent a cljange. The yoke 
of France had p re fifed heavy upon her, as upon other 
ttates; and her people eagerly fought to be delivered from 
thofe fetters by which their industry had been 'Chained. 
The great powers no\v perceived the error which, they had 
committed, in conciliating Sweden at the expenfe q( 
another power wliof'e alliance might have been nearly as 
ufeful. Some diplomatic communications accordingly 
took place, from which Denmark certainly underltood, 
that the relinquifhment of Norway was no longer to be re¬ 
quired from her. She accordingly agreed to unite with 
the allies, fo far at leaft as to ailift in the defence of the 
Hanfe Towns ; and, about the middle of May, a meffeqger 
was fuddenly fent to Davoutt, .from Altona, to inform, 
him that the Danes took Hamburg under their protec¬ 
tion, and, if he perfifted in attacking it, 'would fight in 
its defence. Thqir gun-boats immediately potted them- 
felves before the city, and their troops entered its walls, 
and erefted a battery of ten pieces of cannon oppofite the 
Elbe. This conduft on the part of Denmark created 
univerfal afionifhment. Some aferibed it to a fecret un¬ 
derhand in g‘ with the French, according to which the 
Danes were to obtain poffeflion of the city, only to difarm 
its inhabitants, and rettore it to the enemy when he Should 
defireit; as their occupying it would leave the force un¬ 
der Davoutt at liberty to aft on other points ftill more 
important, at that crifis, than the Hanfe Towns. Others 
fancied that Denmark had agreed to an arrangement pro- 
pofed by the allies, to take the Hanfeatic States as part of 
a compenfation for the cefiion of Norway to Sweden.—• 
But we need not wonder that others were at a lofs to ac¬ 
count for this Step, fince the Danes themfelves were de¬ 
ceived. An explanation, however, foon took place, from 
which it appeared, that Sweden had not defitted wholly 
from her demands, but had merely restrained them to the 
bifhopric of Drontheim, the moft northerly of the Nor¬ 
wegian provinces. We trull that there was not, accord¬ 
ing to the French allegations, an intentional deception ; 
Denmark, without doubt, was aftualiy deceived. On 
finding that this new demand was to be perfifted in, flie 
determined to renew her alliance with France. She con¬ 
ceived, that this requisition, though diminished in extent, 
was the fame in principle ; and that no alternative was 
left to her, except this unfortunate one, which flie adopted 
with evident reluftance. 
The city of Hamburg was occupied, on the 30th of 
May, by 5000 Danes, who were followed in the evening 
of the fame day by t 500 French. The city was taken 
peffetfion of by the French general Bruyere, in the name 
of Bonaparte, as belonging to the French empire. Gene- 
•ral Tettenborn and his troops left it the day before; that 
Swedes had previously quirted it. The French general, 
however, did not enter Hamburg, as it was fuppofed he. 
would, clothed in all the terrors of martial, law, destroying 
the property of the inhabitants, and.Sacrificing their lives 
to his fury. It .does not appear that he even called upon 
them to deliver up their arms. Inftead of giving up mute 
kets and bayonets, bullets and gunpowder, Davoutt, ex 
virtue officii, iffued a criminal information againft all thofe 
who poileiied, either for their own private ufe or for ge¬ 
neral dillem'.nation, any libels, books, pumphjets, portraits. 
