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310 north of the enemy's armies, circumstances might ha ,a: OCCUI which would put us now in the situation of co:aside:bier bow tt maintain °or existence as a nation. The S%vtdish move:limes after the affair of Leipsie, were the concurrence of The pec-i! , or No, way, dm lag the War, Ilr!Ver euiae t to a 4. oer to pies( rye their nentrality ; !lot they co•operated with Deninat which tiny hael now given them up. The pre6.ooptive heir to 11. e crown loci gone to Norway. mid endo.Lyoured to set up a vtate, idle' the King hod Cede! it. There was reason to think that the libel al terms of Sweden ha:l been stioliooly coacealed limo 11:e Norwe gians. It I va:, a sati,Cietioe that irstend of hoposhig Lictiships or. NOrWaV, the ecritrary was the tact. The King of Swedeu offered Norway freedom. Lorti G o ENY 11.i.F had beard x%ith great pleasure on a limner that wor.' rojt*Y”:: on bet w, CH his Milit2Nty's anti tlic Allied Powers. itooti this ;moo bopott ant :4;ject. liie had h o p e d th a t hove dissuaded other Pow er= fans U. isi!•!t. oi;o-tiec of sub.:a ;Ho: the virtimus and uncut femlioo people to the it lon of a Power riot only hostile at the preseot ironociit, but to a l'o%ver which in ;.it periods of the history of Ein o;.e had been 01 , 2 unremitting CIAM:y of Norway. If found nov, that the poiot at which the exertioos of thi!. conntry IV.is directed, was to compel the sohnlisio;) of Norway by a block• ade. th.:l would oce:oion famine. Was this the first use which we made of our soccesses, and of our newly establisi.ed influence in Vo;rope ? Grotiuq, Pallendorf, and Valtel, were all agreed (Pi the prineple, that a Sovereign had no riolit to transfer his sr hjects to another, as if they were cattle and mere beasts of burden. it woo always the ritz - ht of the persons trate.firred to coloider whet'ocy the transfer was for their benefit, or whether it was not for their 111!CV CMS to resit it. With respect to this tree condition which was pte sni,ed thenr, w.is it not 0.-.teral for tl:rin to t•Tiret, that Fiatieo a!so bad promi-ed flee corstitlitins to all ;hose nations which she in Yodel and reduced to slavery ? The Nolde Lord had most eaotions!y e%eded answeriog the question which bad been direetly pet to hie) by his Noble Viierol *(Ear! Grey). By his silence he woo the more cosiviticed, that the Cioiwo of Swedeo had forfeited all right to the coopeiation of this country - from its 1:tot-performance of its own en gazements. Norwav twist either be emisidered as a part of the kiugdoms of Deomara or Sweden, or eke as au it'd:T(l)4ot nation. Hit was considered a part of Demnark, we were at. peace with that power ; if an independent nation, slue had given us on cause of of fence ; it she was to be consid, l ed ,0 a p a rt o f s m d c o, it was a strapge empl.o3:nent of tho navy of this country to be sent to chas tise the rebel-, of Sweden. Ile believed the Vt lefiedneP‘ this COUtitr, was called upon to assist in, would be prejudicial to its interests; and, therefore, he heartily concurred in the motion of his Nubia Friend which would give time to Ids Mojesty* Ministers to consi der vklEther it was not possible stiff, by amicable (11:4..ussiorai, to avert the injustice and the miseries with which Norway was now threatened. The Earl of Llvro root. said, that the question in the first place Nevi, Low fa the cession of Norway was jtoititied by the law Or 11:1 tioms; and in the second place, how far vve were bound to enforce it. as the ally of Sweden. The facts attending thc cm:ion were as follow : A part of the troops comentuded by the Pripet! of Sweden Istrd taken possession of Ilolstcin, and threatened Jutland ; and in order to recover lioistcin and to save Jutland, Denmark consented to give up Norway. '['he history of all negociations consisted in determining what degree of cessi at was to be made by a weak, and of resti tntion by a strong power. The King of Denmark had ceded No rights which be tlid not possess himself, as he was the most abso lute monarch in Europe, in consequence of the voluntary act of the Nation. No doubt could exist as to the power and right of the King of 'Denmark to make the cession, nor that an alic k piate necessity existed ; as, with the exception of Zealand awl Norway, the whole id the dominiom of Denmark was in the power of the enemy. The cession was also honourable to the country ceded, as every boon xv . * profiled by its new Sovereign. But it wils alleged that the Nor wegians were averse to any incorporation with Sweden. and that they should not be compelled to form au union to 'wind' they were rootedly averse. To the general priesciple he assented; bnt it should be.yecollected that fir eight years Norway had done us all the mis chief in her power ; that her harhonrs had affordesl refuge to the ships of the enemy, bytwhiclt our trade had been grievously harrassed. During the whole of the war, Norway had made a common cause with Denmark against us, and now had no right to convvrt herself Into an indenendaut state to disappoint our designs and those of our Allies. (Hear, hear!) It was necessary for the argument of the Noble Earl (Grey) to prove that the indisposition on the pat t of the Norwegians was the free and spontaneous will of the nation, a nd sot ereated• by foreign Mame. (Hear.) The Kites ofDenmark MAY 1I ;ad i st it eve) as Regent to Norway, the heir of his Crowe, aid had at'tt - rwartis ceded boats ay to Sw eden. fir ir of the Qtown of Dennsai k bad proclaiwed the irniepeffilence• of Norway, stvlint , himself P:ince of Dei., anti Reront of Nnrway, pm! . ptoposing to treat with foreign powers. Wa• Denmark a party to hi• condom ? Ifs it listed not ; and then it was a manifest act of astulertion on the pa: t of Prince Christian. and. t a deb.:rated an tie :city. (Hear.) Ti.ere were a number of Danes in Norway Who itettd nut!er the aoilhaity of the Prince of Denmark, who on his, • part had convict( ly assunicd •the sovereign power. The question li.ti.crto. had never been fairly stated to the Norwegians, as all the provl;L:uation, of the of Sweden hail been industriously ritp. ptecti. and Prince On islian had assured them of the sitppert of Government. The pent conduct of the Norwegians was no national act, but that of a fen designing individuals as many ot the princi;ral parts of Norway were friendly to a connecticn %%Jilt ' Sweden. The ease of Spain that had been quoted by the Noble. Earl %vas not at all in Isoint. 'lle treaty then toatle with Bu-naparto was ',fade by the Kimt in a lurci2n country, and tweet* the is flnenee of terror (IR heir !); and by the fatishonental laws of Le realm. the Ring hint no power to alter the succession to the Crowu. whir respect to Sweden, that country had amply paid for all the stipu lations in het favonr. En watching her troops to Holstein she had beets g uilty or no bat! faith. as that movement had taken place with the consent of the Allies . ? and a considi». - able body of troops had lice» placed under the cuminand of the Crown Prince by the Hip p( rot of Russia. Never bad so extensive a confederacy taken placa as that IA twixt the hied PolVers, iu which so few ground= of corn. !.ad arisen. This Ras to he ascribed to the maqnanimity of the !lies, ;Ind their ra to sacrifice all minor objects, wiien put in competition with the ;;Peat oh;ects whirl) had been so succe:-o . ni! aa . loCa. If any nielsure were vise: when first ad.'pted this count's.; was bound in justice to ;,there to it, the state of aifairs inight have since materially changed. Norway bad resisted the cession to 'Sweden, and with that part of Denmark we were in a slide of war ; and he trn-ted, that theliouse would be of opinion, that ens ernment should be armed with powers sufficient to enal4lt) them to filial the solemn obiigations of a treaty. I,nrd lidLLA 1) supported the motion. Lard Bosh NG 1Y) N said he should vote against the resolution. Lord C FA replied. The House divided—Ccr!ents 17', Proxies 7.—.5-1 ; Not Contents 86, Proxies 29-413 ; Majz.lity for Ministtig —AdjoUruCd. WFDNESnAY, MAY 11. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. The Order of the Day brig read for taking into considerati:ne the Message from the Priner Regent. Tie. Earl of LI A' EV rOOl, 1, it wou!;1 be in the recollection of theif Lordships, and of every twin in I;,e C:at not many yea's had past since it was the scneral that our military character was cenfined to one element ; nay, it hail been tauntingly said by our enemy, that if we wi•lied to acquire military fame, except at ..ea, we must lead uue ships on land. We have seen, by the per-eve. ranee, skill, and prudence of the illustrious person at the Lt ad dour army, by the mean. he had taken to give it energy and c.f . i . :- ciency, and under the r ßidance of the great man Whose services they were then called upon to reward, achievements peiforiaed which equalled in renown the actions of any former period of our history. In considering our late triumphs,. it waa natural to cotn paic our present situation with that in which the country was placed during a memorable era, the war of the snceession, and whether they regarded the dangers that were then averted, or th! renown acquired by the British arms under the Duke of Marlborotwb. he :lad no hesitation in affirming, that the latter was equalled by the victories of the Duke of Wellington, and the former surpassed by the situation in which we were recently placed. Iu the War of the Succession provinces indeed were sometimes overrun, but not kingdomie We had seen almost the whole of Europe subverted, tedneed to a blank, and scarcely any country upon which the eve could rt st, except France. The liberties of Europe were conleudi'd for, during nu inconsiderable period. in one corner of it only, and even for a time within the lines of Torres Vedra.. There was no comparison, therefore, as to the danger of the country at the two epochs. if they looked at the circumstances also, the compai icon would not be much stronger. The manner in which the Duke of Ma:11)0E01mb commanded, and kept together the conti-derated armies, always struck him as one of the greatest proofs of his consum mate military skill. He was indeed a successful General. It hail been said of him, that he never fought a battle which he did not win, or besieged a place that be did not ta , ..e. But it should be regicabervd timo he was opposed to Louis XIV. in the eleolins tit THE NATIONAL REGISTER.