Star. — London, England, 1814-05-13 00:00:00

line the history of 4rd the First. 13A to his Conqtternr, and in.lepande nt !Icier their patriotic The same was the reign of Edward. ative Priore; they with warriors, sad: fission of their leader lwledge the authre. is a foreigaer. Pes na the co-operation int of our subsidies; ligious sacrifices fee Slled. Swedrn was, were called French. , ulted in the appelfu not be diluinisheaV chman. He would'. mar, fear the purpnse fist the feclirgs of the : see us with our ar ur hnoros, and Hits ;ns engaged in such loman spoke at great 'ery able speech anus which lie expected ten opposite. Ise same as those poi House on Tuesday, them here. He coo mble Address shout& ent, praying that his • )usly pleased to ar4& he people of Norway famine, and in the e British ships of war and the motion. Tie ght, by his Majesty's itch had no parallel in d. It filled him with out to be sacrificed la vents. The hatted or was well known. If was reared with their nhood, and Ilescendeill• erhaps they alight be to be treated with the differently ; foe Den. , ore from the featesoi , oleos, that the could rith any Power in £s. 'prising,:that at a time spected of the Woven. it to their allegiance sovereign without their the Spaniards imagine would not he felloirel mid, and wigi meows ned the struggle-in:the tranquillity and hapgi t ed . to mery,other part ?ranee wa.s.allawtal . 443 elf, it was.melancholy ,e commenced again t rune was that they haii choose al"riernatultk The wer ten, whickCipt oast them, he parties. s were not to be Mid; re were to reduce theca itarration. It was most be remembered in tars•. the year ISIS returned abundant harvest, in forth all her means to of the hungry. He . h that the Norwegians ipani3rris ; and express. ind in him whom they another Wellington. dediy of opinion, t he ith duty could never be ould never pursue cur Laws et GOD or of NA. I to do this threw .tho. and he should fear in inirnediately see the a i.eff , ct, that the So. Ek.be would is it tail to o perforai the te**Ly in (au potter t►4lloa . were seisesed :Toast* Nothing was ago-or& dee rostrmen prirreiple, iy bad been ceded to iiilgiurAealffilly. resoled bed done all the treaty -do nothing more in Alm e treaty we eogageen* ition of Norwarie pa p-ape:4le with St-Nip' former Power, it Dew! It was 110 W 14141, after use at last Denmark had system, that we were nof that treaty. He his from persons 1103 C... iters on the Law of Na. and Vattel ; but be was those who were familiar roceedosi to skew from By Ministers, with co y respect jrusitiabie. h :err on car. part to hakill ed between Sweatt acid itroauce-a provisa r . th re ted, it should not be tor. ms our amok-would wee n. But it wars:id Swop. apemen% and therefore. a WIS. It would *VA is to say this now, ,ifkietts s to this effect before.-m ince at Leipsic,, his de al), forwarded the plans hink Ministers. deserved than for having dilia t placed in the Crown wbeo the propelling opi :h ,against-it. After the had been performed, k the danger was Mt, conduct: of this-C.iowa t Prinee, th at we should put aide the.engagements 1 we had made. If this treaty weren violatipo of *ter n ) nal justice, and of the law of ..natione- r if .were r a transgression of the law ..of Got., then. if tht were made out. he would admit It inight•itiat in 'be 1 - 41: filled. It we sinned in mablitgnovbiltatildisbrain io breaking it, it we madetbe partp•suffering from. our doing so, all the reparation in our power.. The colduct pursued towards Nqrway he again vindicated by referring to the public: writers he had qti m ted fore. Norway, as Wanes* to Desiinarkiaritti•whiltti ' we were at war, are had :a . right* to conspiet if lea could, and we had a right to contract acritb .s doh* power to effect its subjugation. If it were proved. that this was contrary to the law of natiqus, lie would give up the argument. A ceded people, it was said, most consent to the cession before it could take place; but how was this expressed but through their legit'. mate organ the King ? T.w King of Denmark had consented to the cession.. of Norway, and we were bouni by solemn treaty to car; ' that cession into ef fect. But it was said fslorw.4 . Was part of 'Sweden; or part of Denmark. If port Of :Defittraik, it been ceded to Sweden., and we. had nothing -more to do ; 11 it aas part of, Sweden, -with that country we were at peace. He should avoid both hores.of this dilemma. If it part of Dentin* it was bound to obey the law of Deemed*. 'lf It' itefuied to fulfil the treaty inade.by Denmarls,ltaptabediteell by such conduct in its former state of .shor with this country. They could in that case have no sight to benefit by the peace between the two Powerq. it was said the plan formed ti,r starving them into subMisiimi Wats• one not to be contemplated without herrear% 'Gob forbid that he should wish any nation to be-placed in this situation; but by unequivocally stating our ins tendons, he thought we might save the Norwegians from the miseries of famine and protracted war. He thought it would be mercy to Norway to put forth our means in concert with our' llies at once, in'order to convince them resistance would be vain. The si tuation of Norway, he could not think likely tobe at all deteriorated by its union with Sweden. , This to bin* was a consoling re fl ection, though under talter - icircumstancei he should still have contended We were bound to .fulfil the treaty we had eoneliided. On these grounds he most cordially..opposed the motion, belies:sag ; that,. ; iitatead: off propitiating the BUttsua Qoitsiums Ofe,worid, by agreeing to it, -to d0.,50 Would onlf'heve the effect offf - heaping greater dis grace on this nation, than had ever fallen On ant , other country. . • • „. . Sir J. MACKINTOSH, refer ring the ciftdm. stances under,oohich the Treaty between Russia' alyd Sweden had.bette concluded, eulogised in the.. highest terms the sprendidesertions of the formecPower the cause of Europe. He.admitted the convention wiih'Seredin; to . .erhich this' Counirrwas a party, to be binding; btirsteted the'queidem before the House tobe this, vrhither this toonory war bound in fact or by sight, to compel the kindoto•Of Norway to sub mit to. the domination of Sweden, by a treaty conclud ed with Sweden against the Crown of Denmark ? He tiohtended it could not birid us to Mike was on an in dependent power, which Was not in 011M:since •vihen the-treaty *as made. AR that was asked by ‘the lution.under consideration ww, that a pause should be Made to give time for enquiring into the real state of thitie in 1 1 / 4 /Ofway, before the most odious measures Of hoitility inert resorted to. Those who &mated whether the insurrection in Norway was unanimous or who doubted of any of the facts .which had been made public, were pound to vow for the Address. It had. been *sired,. tf Swede, would have accepted. our, tielairtd the treitybetween her and Russia, with a Proviso that it should not be enforced, if k met with resistance froth the 'Norwegian people? 'He would an- WW I SwedettsectlAdo if-she had read the Lew of Na.a tithis as laid down by Grotius, PuffendorfF r indVattel. Recognising the tutiverially,ryFeived writings of these men as thelaw of Ettrofie,' ilve was boknd to admit the proviso, as much as if it, hit been intend : in the Treaty• These he proceeded , to 414Aptiri by*mis tions from those eelebrated we ken, Fc* a Prince to cede a million of men by one stroke of pen, was to cifre on white slave trade , to outdo the wontscenes `exhibited 'in Congou or , Bohemia. The resistance of fipeo'ple was not to he treaie4 to lightly. One pro. - new, he contended ,wal Mote than equal to a thouslnd ocquiestences. He then adverted to the .cessionzol the Island of Corsica by the Republic of Genoa, untie iraced Rani the circumstances which that cession led to, the production of that mind which had afterwards! heady destroyed the liberties of the world. The •cei sion of the Tyrol by Austrii he treat notice 4, and,- quired if the gallant resistance of the : ', YroiLose Warm be stigreatned as a rebellion and if that here wlib, fighting tor his country, had prottably46: his blood; platted the seeds of European *Ai at this time of.day to be called a traitor. The vote 'of the House that night would decide • whether he deserved to rank with Spine, and Hsmpden, or wascine of the l blackest traitors that titer prolonged'the horrors. of War ? He wislie,d to aik• the, Learned Gentleman if there.werp no cases in which the people might with jnatkce resist the attempts of their Sorereigns to cede them to foreign Powers ? He put it to him it. the King of Spain were to cede the fine peroviate of An dalusia to the barbarian called the Emperor of Mo.. ropco, or to the Bey of-Algiers, would it be high tree.; son in the people to refuse their consent to filch a transfer ? 'foe actor peasant of Norway had that arti . field instinct—that love of his native land, without which he could be no man, without %Asia , the country! could be no country, but merely a wretched bundle of slaves. A parallel case orthat of Norway was fur• tithed by Sisetland. Had not her ! sons resisted Ed: ward.' as grit, suffsred themselves to be Inade slowes t '. they could never have become useful' 1 trienilsecothat great country to which , it Was now their honour and their glory 'to belook . - It was - because I they:hid and - pee:aim aWptig i thina suffered I martyrdern that they had become t 'they were. • and that trOm them the annals of Great Dritaintad been graced with the name's of an' Abeyer ., 44ol, a t Toloore,antd a Orthant: •He iiriKeeded Olefin* the I 4 haral case. of,the, gerwegiane inbelsgsubjetted tothe . hoarser, of famine for choosing their own Government; He tomcod/dab:at When the ling • of Dehnlarlt , had abdicesed the 4overeignty owerthem they had a eigtt to act for themselves, and as an independent yrt-irti mast comnsit'sotne act of hostrTity'befor4 any ti - • could With luidce declare war against .thettu!", • Han. Gentleman wished to• know whether the rising waspartial or general, and this he %Tithed toadflf by Statovingitbetaholepeople, But it wal`ratid they lllld Ism list& to us. • *They bad , ban iti sebibr It-etas theisAlpty. • .Under the moss ..vying .•:cireurbstancee the.y, had stood firm as their mountain; -which he toped would prove to them an uncolquereble bar rier... He expressed great sorrow at finding. the NeVy was to be put upon so aßbminable andittefarions a duty as that of blockading.the.peopleof 24oiefey. -Of the Nwy he !could not speak without enthusiasm-- Those who composed it adding • the ,per&mti t on,of sei- , eticY-te v:ilbur end generosite, had itiisea,, m theselees within•the tett twenty years as a body itfritelhaii any other crasi of persons he could name.• Pfitlylifid'aP - pearedaishe without rivals, till the immortal Welling-1 ton made it.dpubtful whether our Army or Navy. was most to be idatired. 'He mourn' that such men ' were to be lent to persecute. under the nroplianed name of mercy, a•people who would not believe them capable of acting such a part. He put it to the floilse what must be theteelings of the Norwegian !sunbelt; while gazing ontheir,dying iefattts—their infants fa-; , Mished by the mercy of England; they, pointed • to the British flag, which they had tairght"their Children to admire, and saw in that which had given indepen, dente and relief to others, the sainsiil their subjuga tion and misery. . . a .... Mr. CANNING was.glad to follow his,,Hen. and Learned Friend. who spoke last, because the view .which he had professed to take of the subject tallied so much with that which he himself was disposed to, take. The enthusiasm,-however, which had.actuated his Hon. and Learned Friend, did not enter into his view of the subject. If the question was whether , with a view to any contingent advantage, hover; girt; or to any other advantage which we we're ies to derive from a treaty with Sweden, that the House should give its concurrence to such a measure as tint{ which-had been adopted by . Government. lie would not hesitate to say that their concurrence stunild he refused. He said this the more strongly then, be . ..! cause •on a former occasion, when the Tre.itY Was first discussed in the Wuse, he'haci•endeavoitryd ,to prevent it from giving its cinch •n ti dm which it had, since coecurred in. Strong as his opinions had then been, arid strong as his elf rts• had beam to p 6. r.! suade the House to pause, bet Ore it assented, to the. Treaty, yet he now lomat Itimselt bound by the dal 'berate dection of Parliainet. They were irbsv to decide whether, alter. sanctioning the Treaty, they were bound to adhere to its prom zoastructions and what .hat construction was i This was the way in which his Hon. and Learned Friend had.set out; — and had determined that if the construction was such as Government had put upon it as a deliberate act of the State, our good faith was to be preservedr— The Right Hon. Gentleman here observed, that he could complain M his ,Hon. And Learned Friend to the course which lie'had pursued by laying down for consideration the technical questirM s. of the con struction df • the Treaty, and then giving . a 'glowihg picture/of thehiiserres which. would he inflicted by the meastfre-adaKefivtowardi the _ N _or wegians. NO CffiltelliplAtiOp of the miseries which might be inflict ed could enable'ufie Blouse. the tietter to &tide on the queition. Afite -a piinitit examination of the subject, 'begun with the hope lliat he might-be able, to find that the- constratetion of the Treaty did mai • bind them, to. sueh-a measure. he was obliged to coa l leis that the c-tn.clusiott to whirl he had come was, that by the Treaty they were boillid i aud litoind in 1- taut: slinse which he Was ehout to explain. His Ho. 'mositalile . . and !Learned . 1:1 i end; when he-had made la nice distinction between Norway and Denmark; !as to peace or war 'with this country ; and when ire ;talked of Norway having now started up as an node* Oelcient State, seemed not to have looked ascent:Ate) , at the different treaties connected with the question. In these Treaties, there was a cautious avoiding et the name of Denmark, and an ostentatious ,putting farehirct of the name . a Nor Way. Sweden' did seem hilaVetbeen -aware that the dilfrculty would lie on the part - olNotway. 'ln the Whole of the Treaty be tween4lweden and Kossia,..there was, op mention of. the. cession, !suitor the:ltemisation of Norway. Here the Right Ikon. Gentleman 'rtlferred to the Treaty. The stipulation was ` not foi the cession, but for the *filter akin of Nortia:y• ; 'ind in • another part Of the Treaty, the words were to put)Swedon .Kin aettial possession of Norway." Looking to the operative s article of the Treaty between Great Britain' tai Swe de*, it ..wottlit.be found that the letter bad slicers the saMe'eaution in'the wording of it. What we stipu lated was " not to interpose any obstacle'to the ces tioo"—No, " to the perpitual union of Norway with ' Sweden." He was not saying what we ought 'to !lave done, but %hat we had done. The Treaty trund us to co-operate in this union. On the plata construction of the Treaty, ,wit This done by obtain- 1 ' ibg the cession of Norway'liyi Dent/ ark ? Had we co-1 • Operated by procuring thisl .hot was it•left doubt-, ' how we were to co-operate I—No--- -It was ei ' isly stated " naval co-eperation." TVA could 1! is m ran but blockade i What other nava cO-opera !lioncould there be its such a CAM ? Chuld it be sup.' !posed that Gentlemen were callous as to the-means, :Or. was it meant to say that-they were not bound f .No 'maim could doubt but this-,wasthe'cjanstruction of the \ Treaty. As to the qualifying condition, that in whir) the security and happiness of the people of Dtorway 'was mentioned, sheaved th-it•we were bound to some thing mole than mere cession • fur what could Den straric do as to the happh%ess o f the people of Norway 'IC the case of cession f Respecting the other queli: fying condition.. whitb..stiferred to the refusal of -I.l4'nmark to join the Coalition, it was admitted on t•all hands that. Dotperlf..ha4 ineoqed the. forfeiture of Norway in Vas .. rpipeci. l'he condition of our naval co-dpetation 'arid VS - hi hong& off only by Denmark having joined the • Confederation ;—it was ,to be palliatekotily by mei:ending to:the hap piness of the, rop e y .of Norway.. Sot . eLews -*le obligations incpri y urgrattrytieslyrD4l . Stec. den do nothing'? it Ssileaen,- make no sac rifices, with respect to the annetation Of Norway; Sweden stood better 'beiore• the Treaty than after it.— The ‘ impediate autuals of Sweden upon Norway, was *tit off by f venpfal, contingent,.distant assistance worded` by swedes. (Neer, Aerie.) Whet) at the mblencement of the coalition some power between assia and Great Britain was necesiary for the bind i g. oldie confederacy, tho.sualeur of which was for : 11 PI Ow Pg 4 Etat rioNeres which, as it were, t ached forth, the arms torch other without being' thle • to meet ; either 13enspark:, Sweden, or Prussia Oust have Jean thit Poiiir. Neither Denmark nor ?mak .Cotricli it bo r !froirr Obvious causes'.l t Sweden, `ady :izt treaty "Witis , :Russia, could form not so pifftsiefiattkitifor theAteteg: union with' RaSsia. l 4/Firdlild thitgli *eat cir cuovstanees; the prig! • pato& .den , had been wiselk Pgsf.-:Whin treatfw ghee den was first dlstossedithelUileibleillffienlty that the war 'for the' bait ' 4044rivil might **dive AK great Continetitil oceiirred to him; acrd Made ,the ground: of the itaseisslinent which Jae had then I peoposed_ when' he kotoiie4 hit' an AO fess tii•the :Throne to kilete. in iveliet illenitient this country would ,r t e placed in . this ease? He had done tisis' s witit - the !Siert 'of relieving!t)veciiiiiftry from the : danger of soch • a Ireversionitry war.' Ncit*lthstitsiding the Maraud of l atch in event, the lLouse bad determined to agree to ; tlie'rreaty, and now the haiiid had happened. But he had only stated a part of the obligations contracted by -Sweden--First, she had relinquished for the time ; her operations against Norvray—inekt, she bad en gages' to cooperate actively' on • the great theatre of war. This to-operation might have lasted for many years, though, as it it was confined to one. He ivronld not descend to inquire whether Sweden had employed thilly 'thousand men .cloritog .every period of the - CaMpaign? It was enough. that .with Russia and_ this etnifstry'she had formed the basis 'of that confederation which overthrew the power of Prowess; and wrought the deliverance of the world. 1 he services of Sweden. were not to be lightly esti mated. 'rho words of Austria in her Declatation were ‘itar authority for thrtnagnitude of the crevices of Swe den. This was sufficient testimony. Whether the orr i ationi of Sweden had' been conducted wisely or no, the firet swis, that the nbiOn of-England, Rash, Itisd Sweden, savedthe *ear, hart).— These engagetqents were Onteicied in 'a vellums of aifficnlty e we were eelltd upon, to fulfil them in a moment of temparatiee easel when the Treaty was made, we were in a mighty' deluge s the waters omit ne us ; clouds and _darkness .wOre round about us.— Now the Mighty tOrrent had subsided into a pebbly . stream. 'We ought to look back to the times when the Treaty Wattnade. It *et to he considered, that if the price co.operatlon.vras to be with held on Score of its inintoritity, that was as Clri fent When if was sanctioned now. In gdocl Each, it Was now our 'duty to fulfil it. Although Deer in irk had , acted from compulsion; this assumption did not change the case, It had been aired, that Noiway had risen UP an independent State, quite in. n tent of toll 'the quarrels of Denmark ; a nd that in this state we meant to attack her. In the first Pro clamation 'of Prince Christian, he said, that before Denmark abdicated the sovereignty of Norwayit had given the Norwegians the advantages of peace with great Britain. This showed them that Norway had been at war with us. If Prince Christian took advahtagn of one part of the Treaty) which gave peace with Great Britain to Norway, he was bound by the other part of the same l'reaty which ceded Norway to Swedei;. 'lnjustice, he could not take the advantages without incurring the disadvantages. The Right Hon Gentleman then went on to confute the arguments, by which•it was supposed that every' State, assuming Indi-pendence, was to haat its inde pendence recognized by all other nations. There' were instances, in which he would have been gl.td we have seen the independence of Norway recognited by Great Britain ; but notht the present case, where we were hound by an obligation expressly contrary. He then replied to the general arguments which had lefery,urged respecting cession, and the rights of na'ion, in such a case, to assume independence. Our p'elges remained to be fulfilled.- There was indeed. no price which he would no: willingly pay to be re leased from the ' o bli ga tions we had incurred —(Loud trite of Hear from Me Opposition.) But he could not agree to a motion which would vitiate our Treaty, and call in qriestion our good faith with Foreign Powers. Standing as it did, we were bound faith fulle toftilill ante engegemente to Sweden. : Mr. WHITBREAD said, that tire fair inference froth:the ; tight Hotiotitable Gentleman's anxiety to be released iroth this tfeate Would be, that he.intend ed to submit' o the 'Hod* a proposition similar to what his 'Hontim-able 'Friend (Mr. Wynne) had pro: `posed.. Witat,was there in that proposition but a re. comtnendetien to Mediate between an inds2ppy two pie ar.d the fury of famine and foreig power. In. _deed the !tight Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Canning) did rat seem to be himself on the occasion ; the usual floes of his eloquence had failed hini. It was but justice to appr ise the expectant curiosity of the young Members of this c.hange. The Right Honourable Gentleman was. so fettered and trammelled in the web of sophistry, to which the absence of all 'argu ment obliged hinetts resort, that he had not once filet) beyond a creeping metaphor or petty illustration. Clouds,rivulets, pebbly streams and sunshine, were the chief ornaments of his speech that night. This could )only be attributed to the cause. he had persuaded him sell t' support. Mr. Whitbread adverted to the eloquence displayed by his Honourable Friend behind him (Mr. Lembton) , who had p roved himself that c night the worthy representative of the talent and pa. triotlsm of his father. -He deprecated construing the Treaty by mere words or particular parts, insisted -that the resistance of Norway was never cnntemplat -ed by the contracting parti!s, and that Norway was 'allotted to Sweden as a compensation for Finland.- I spould any man deny the right of the people of Nor way, relieved by Denmark from-their allegiance, to establish that independence which their lofty moun tains, their inaccessible coasts, and their native va lour promised to secure, and in which he (Mr. Whit bread) trusted. Heaves would, crown their efforts with success.-(Hear, hear.)—Jt was more than in sinuated that Prince Christian Was a rebel to Den mark, but he had done no nixie than his duty in obeying the nation's call as a patriot and a Prince. If England were reduced to the same necessity as Denmark, and obliged to agree to a cession, not of Scotland or Wales, lath - of Ireland, would not the gallant warriors of that country, who are now return ing after the glories and the toils of foreign war, in stantly lead their countrymen to independence ? Would that •be treason to England ? The case of Prince Christian and Norway was precisely the same. Was starving a whole people a proper object for the naval forte of England ? It Was war with all its most humiliating - horrors divested of its glory. The object of this blockade was not to exclude commetcee bletnfe,! but to deprive a people of their food. (Rear, Hear.)—That Denmark had executed her undertaking was clear, from the ratification of the treat/ oit the 19t4s of April. Djd Sweden fulfil her 1112geteinenis i This was what Gentleman tbsnight 'OM* of itrreitittiTott, Snail/bat Mff,lstetrettla . . . - prettlimot communicate, or Most scandalously did. nockhoir. He regretted he did' hot then see in hie . place en Honourable and Learned Gentleman (Mr.. Stephen) who hed,ty a Most strange inetaph• t, half pious and half prophane, talked of throwtne`devine• • A gauntlet to the ALMIGHTY. which the Al.snonr& he was sure, world take up. The second mein.: • her of the metaphor he (Mr. Whitbread) would' be my unwilling indeed to use. The Himont..? able and Learned Gentleman expressed the greatest' kindness for the people of Norway. He wallet• starve them to their own good, to happiness, to free dom. The Honourable and Learned Gentleman's mercies were most cruel.- (Hear, Acar.) If he (Mr. Whitbread) did not remember the speeches of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, he would that ni..bt have supposed him one of those advocates of the slave trade, who would force the Africans to become.stives Ar their good, or else he would have gemmed him ode of the old French Jacobins, who offered freedom and fraternity to nations as he did to Norway, t y fa. .mine end devastation. But the Nora.eginns, an ob— stinate and simple race, refused Otis boon from the. Honourable and Learned Gentle/it in, whom tie (Mr.. Whitbread) then hailed with pleasure on his entrant*• to his place.• (A laugh, Mr. St./uteri having come him the House jut! at Inir moment.) The Norwegians wan ted no such " lover of liberty,' as the Honourable and Learned Gentleman declared himself 'a Would to Goo that he (Mr. Whitbread) critila• .awake one feeling of sympathy, one spark of e• tkiisi term fur that unhappy and innocent race, in the bosom of the British public., (Hear, hear, hear ) He iota beseech the allies not to.alliser th's sirgas stain upon their character—he would beseech 11i4 House not to justify Bonaparte's construction' of the Act of cession of Spain, and the Treaty of Tilsit, in , his aggression upon that country and upon Russia.— A, literal construction would be iniquitons in the treaty: before the House. ObligatiUnsextrt.el by dire neces sity are not binding, and there •wainothing in the pin. position of his Hon. Priced (Mr. W. Wynne) which even those who adhered to the _most rigid construe ! . lion of the treaty might not agree to—(Hear, hear.) He never in his . life gave a vote with more ardour and• anxiety than he should give in support of the motion that night. . . The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUEIi. contended, that by the true construction of the Treaty we were authorised to use hostilities against Norway in certain circumstances. The ratification of the Treaty of Kiel was in perfect consistence with the obligation of the Treaty with Sweden. I altnedintely after the conclusion of the Treaty of Kiel the Swedish troops evacuated Holstein, and Denmark - received Pomerania, together with a sum of money. But what had been the conduct of Denmark Frani the moment of the signature of the Treaty of Kid, Prince Christian acted dike a rebel; As a_subj•cr of Denmark, he was guilty of treason towards the Da nish Monarch ; but whether his treason was of the; virtinms or criminal kinds mentioned by the Hoot' and I;e...tined Gentleman ( Sir J. MAC Iciatosh) he woo+ not determine. He was not placed at she head of thlk Norwegians, but he pliced himself at, their head, and in defiance of the obedience be owed to Denmei k, de, Blared Norway independent. He summoned a diet to meet on the lOth April; stopped tke circulation of the Swedish Proclamation, And Imiintied the . Danish Otfiriers in their siitaitions. Nay, the %limp Governor i centinued by liiin in Bergen, 3ttit Danseris, At,the opening of the •Piet, , Prince ehriatiait did ante. begat bynsking whether or .not they would agree to . the cession, but he commenced with a vehement more, eithorting them to continue independent, and to•resist the union with Sweden. • He even went so tar es to say- that their iNn independence heeta se le ou st l o d od be ti s m ap s I potted by Great Britain. and when commissioarrs, appointed ay &the Allied Powers, were about to gitaiin to .the Norwegians their true situation, would it have been for the Brit sh G. vernmeot to prevent this from baring effect '(Hear, hear.) Withe.t4 : entering into te detail of the operations of the campaign, it was 'Gough to s. r . that the 'blockade was sanctioned .by All the Allies, whom she would have represented as dissatisfied with 'the Conduct or the Crown Prince of Swerjea. At least - it appeared they were so tar satisfied as to agree to this measure. Tie Right Hon Gentleman then ore served, that by many judges of military affairs, tin movements of the Cross n Prune, alter the hattle.of If psis, were the hest suited for co-operation in :I general plan of the campaign. He elided by saying, tint he did not accuse the people of Norway as actit wrongly, but that we were bound to do what 1144 been dhe, which was not to be compared with she - advantages which had been derived from the Treaty with Sweden. Mr. PONSONBY said, the Right Honourable Gentleman who had just sat down had said that his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Canning) had put this question upon . its proper ground—that was to say, we had altered into a Treaty to secure the posseisien of Norway to Sweden, and to employ our naval force in the attainment of tilat object. This was the first time that he had heard any nation could bind itself to an act of tyranny and injustice. No doubt, if a Treaty was entered into, whether inconvenient or honourous, we were bound to abide by its stipule. tions. If we had undertaken to pay a sum of money, if the last shilling was wrung from the pockets of the nation by taxes, it ought and should be paid. If we had undertaken to give to Sweden commercial ad vantages, however incompatible-with our own inte rests and posterity, that stipulation ought to he reli giously performed ; but no stipulation could be bind ing which was contrary to justice itself.—(Hear.) — Who had ever heard that tt was right to do that which was iu itself wrong, and which was destructive of the natural rights of nations I—(Hear, hear. ) J-le denied that it bad ever been in the contemplation of this country to use force towards the Norwegians . • all that was intended was, to force Denmark to cede Norway to Sweden, and this had been effectually done. With respect to the treaty itself, which bad been first entered into between Russia and Sweden, and to which Great Britain had afterwards acceded, he considered it one which, in point of atrocity, had not been equalled by any former transaction of mankind. In confirmation of this remark, opposite (Mr. causing, who, althoz h he had op aetsinsai a y tpiabseredfetrhteonitohtelosnpeeorchhisol ontli.eFltriiegnthdtw(Haso°u.n.WlTGen.nec.wynne). h t u not he se ted ni t t o make say, thwa.tbithierrete freed fro m the ifice w ebb. t 1