The National Register. — London, England, 1813-06-27 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. :TUNE 27. Denim irk to contract. The King expregi.ed all his gratitude at this proceeding. Four ships'-crews of very excillent sailors bad been fornished by Penmark, and manned four ships of our Scheldt fleet. The King of Denmark • during this time, haying expressed a desire that these sailors should be restored, ie Emperor sent them back to him with the most scrupulous exactness, at the same time expre: , sing to the officers and seamen the satistiriction he felt at their good•conduct. Event'., however, proceeded. The Allies thought that the re .veries of Burke were realised. The French empire, in their•ima gbiasion. wis already effaced frmn the face of the globe ; and this idea must have pre4moinated to a strange decree, when they of fered Denmark, m a compensation for Norway. our Departments of the :lel Military Division, and even all Holland, in order to re• compose in the North, a maritime Power, who should act in con inaction with Russia, The King of Denmark; far from suffering himself to he cnrprised by those deceitful offers, said to them, " von sviFli, then, to give me colonies in Europe, and-that too, to the detriment of France." In the impossibility of makin7 the King of Denmark participate in so foolish an idea, Prince . Dolgorneki was sent to Copenhagen to demand that they should ' , Ole a common came with the Allies. in consequence of which the Allies would guarantee the integrity of Denmark, and even of Vnrway. The urgency of circumstances, the inuainent dangers which Denmark ran, the distance of the French armies, her own salvation made the policy of Denmark give way. The King consented, in retiwe for the guarantee of his dominions, to cover Hambargh, and to keep that town sheltered from the French Armies during the war. He r.it all that was dis agreeable to the Emperor in this stipulation ; he made all the mo difications which it was possible to snake in it ; and did even sign it but by giving way to the entreaties of all those by wham he was snrroun led, who represented to him the necessity of saving his States ; but he was fir from thinking it was only a snare that was laid ter him. They wished to place him at war with France, and after niakiag him by this measure lose in that circumstance his natant; sapport, they would have broken their word, and obliged him to subscribe to all the shameful conditions they chose to im- • pose on im. M. de Bernatorf proceeded to London ; he expected to have been eagerly weceived there, and to have nothing more to do than renew the treaty concluded with Prince Dolgornckis bat what was his itonishment when the Prince Regent refmed ta receive the King's • letter, and when Lord Castlereagh gave him to understand, there could be no treaty between England and Denmark, unless, as a preliminary article, Norway was ceded to Sweden. A few (lays after Count Bernstortf received an order to return to Denmark. At the same moment, similar language was held to Count Moltke, • Envoy from Denmark to the Emperor Alexander. Prince Doha,. rucki was disavowed as having exceeded his powers : and during this time the Danes were giving their notification to the French Army, and some hostilities took place ! !!• We shall in vain open the annals of nations to discover in them they more immoral. It was at the moment that Denmark found poi. !y herself Ow; eligavd.ii) a War With : France, that the treaty to whit' she was conforming,, was at the same time disavowed at London and in Russia, and the advantage was taken of the embarrassments in which that power was placed, to present hsr as an ultimatum with a treaty which engaged her to acknowledge the cession of Norway ! Under those difficult circumstances the King shewed the greatest confidence in the Emperor ; he declared his treaty void; he re called his troops from Hamburgh; ht' ordered his army to march with the French army ; and, in short, he declared that he still con sidered himself as allied to France, and that he relied upon the Em peror's magnanimity. The President de Kaas was sent to the French head quarters. si'ith letters from the King. At the same time, the King dispatched to Norway the Hereditary Prince of Demnint, a Young Mince of the highest promise, and particularly beloved by the Norwegians. 11:• set out disguised as a sailor ; threw himself into a fishing-boat, and arrived in Norway on the t2d of May. On the 3gth May, the French troops entered Hamburg'', and a Danish division, which marched with our troops, entered Lu beck. Baron de Kaas, while at Altona, experienced another scene of perfidy, equal to the first. The Envoys to the Allies came to his lodgings, and gave him to understand, that they renounced the ces sion of Norway, and that on. condition of Denmark making com mon cause with the Allies, it should no longer be made a question ; they conjured him to delay his departure. The reply of M. de Kaas was simple,—" I have my orders, I • must execnte them." They told latifthe french armies were de. feated ; that did not move him, he continued his journey. However, on the 31st of May, an English fleet appeared before Copenhagen; one of the ships of war anchored before the town, al.d Mr. Thornton presented himself. lie stated, that the Allies were going to commence hostilities, if, within forty-eight hours, Denmark did not sign a treaty, the principal conditions of Whiell were, to cede Norway to Sweden, to immediately give up, en depot. the province of Drontheim, and to furnish IN,OaO men to act with the Allies against France, and conquer the indemnities which were the portion of Denmark. He at the same time de clared, that the overtures made to M. de Khas, on his ioittney to Altona, were' disavowed, and could only be considered es military suggestions. The King indignantly ravel this insolent summons. Mean while, the Prince Royal waived in Norivay. The confidence which the Kiog of Denaiark had in the Emperor has been entirely justified, and all the bonds between the two na tions have been re .established and strengthened. The French army is in Hamburgtt ; the Danish division follows its metiona to snpport it. The English, by their policy, obt‘itted only shame and contnsion : the wishes of a'S worthy men aerum pany the hereditary Place of Deotuark into Ni)rwity. What ren ders the sitnation of Norway critical, is the want of . pravisions ; but Norway smut remain Danish ; --the integrity of Denmark is guaranteed by France. The botr'sardment of Copenbasen, whilst an Essii , ll Minister was staff with the King; the burning of that capital an the fleet, without adeclaration of war, or any previous hostility, appeared to be the most odious scene af modern history : but the crooked policy which leads the English to demand the session of a proviace, happy for so many years under the sceptre of the house of . llolstein, and the. series of intrigues to which they hays hal recourse to obtain this odious result, will be cossidered as more immortal and more ontrigeons than even the burning of Copenhagen. In it we observe that policy of which the lion =e• of Timonr • and of Sicily have been the - victims, and which. has despoiled them of their dominions. The English are accustomed in India to be never stopped by any idea of justice--they follow this policy in Europe. It appears, that in all the negociations which the Allies hays' had with England, the Powers the greatest enemies to Frau( e hue been disgusted by the excessive pretentious of the English Govern tient. The bases even of the peace of Ismeville are declared by the English to he inadmissible, as too favourable to Trance. Madmen ! They are deceived in their latitude, and take French men for Hiadoos. [The Monitcur of the 21st of June contains a very long detailed account respecting ditfereht reneounters which General Clause' has had with Espoz y Mina, wlitnn he Was sent in pursuit of. After stating various petit alfairs between the 11th cfAptil and the 11th of May, it says, " that Mina being convinced of the pass of liOne..l being forced, now ooly thought of giving battle ; for which purpose on the night between the Is'hand 13th of May, he collected all his troops near Ysaba, on the road li•om Rom*. to Ochagavia, whet e he was attacked on the 13th by General Abbe, and drivel' from three positions, with the loss of 1000 inensupon which he dispersed his troops by companies, and was himself nearly taken at Villareal: that he was snccessively pursued into A euteou; that the Insurrectional Junta had fled to Castile ; that Mina's escort haul been tiller times come up with.- and that it had been reduced to 10 or 12 :lieu, with whom lie was flying from the pursuit ()elite cavalry, and that the confidence of the inhabitants in him had toast gr ea tly lessened, and lie filmset' . mach dejected by his smiths' reverse of fortune.l [The illoniteur of the 17th of June contains, natter the head sirmy of Arragon; an extract of a leiter front the Duke of Aline. fera, Commander of the Army of Arragon, to the Minister at War, dated Valencia; the 24th of May, 1 13. It states, that on the Ist and 2d of that month, the troops of the Frayle made a fruitless at tack on the Fort of Onda. This partisan, it is added, being en. coiwcred and supplied with arms by the Ensli,it Consul, Tuppsr, had done much mischief in the Governments of Castellon and Pe- The Fort of Baloguer had been blockaded for 3O day& by the troops of Erole; but General Cones Manta: Mathieu. hy a clod march from B ireelotia to Tarragoo.i, put EftsiaS to flight. %% We, at the same time, Colonel Plique, leasing Tortosa with a rotionn and supply of provisions, - completely re victualled the Fort, end ti trated all the hopes of the enemy. Captain Bit moat, aide-de-estop of General Hubert, in the night between the 1 . .;ril and i';th, Nti • prised a party of 'Se() Guerillas, the greater putt of whom wel killed. General C:ansel continued in lawsuit of Mina ; and C oteral !re 6: TIZ