The National Register. — London, England, 1813-06-20 00:00:00

sq) - • - tion was. the landin. of a Swedish army in the helrt of their coun try. What pot tion of t ;e1 many, he would ask, was to be riven to Dentnail It wam not ilanovur.—Was it Hamburg!' could never believe that c• place, which was the centre of the insurrection encout aged by as, which we had promised to protect, would be thus betraveei and sold by our Government. Study he could not believe in arty thing so ba c, or so wicked, as an act of treachery like this. The A id re•S he had now to ropose would be in the form of an amendment, to the following etii.et, to 1 a‘e out the words of the motion and st 1,-Ititte these in their stead—'6•That an humble Ad dress be presented to his Royal HiOniess the Prince Regent. thanking him for having communicated the Treaty to the House, to assure his Royal Highness that the House would take the same into its serious consideration; that it. was Stith deep regret the House was obliged to express its highest condemnation of the principles and pclicy of that Treaty. 'that it could not, without painful sen tratiuna, see the power assumed by Russia and Sweden to dispose of the country or Norway, by fakir; it from its present Sovereign ; and also to otter a district in Germany as an in 'emnity for the same. Ti:at in this mea•nrt.• there was a departure from the wise and ho; non abl • course hitherto pursued by England in endeavouring to up hold the independence of other States. That the'llouse saw no ad vain a:s likely to arise from this Treaty; and that the engagements co .s.ained in it possessed no present strength or future security ; won eh as it confirmed the hostility of Denmark, and would alarm and di-euera;:x from making, any am ts those nations of Germany, w: o most now behold as oppressias those men who had professed to be their deliver ors. that the House must express its disapproba tion of the eession of Gnadalonpe, as a measure calculated to raise additional obstacles to aoy future treats - of peace. Ent at the -owe the House felt it•elf bound to make these representa t en;, it did cot mean to withimld the supplies that were ceel.:ll's carryingter part of, the Treaty into effect. That while the 11011 , e plat cd the Ligl , es: v;:li:e on the liewnir of the Crow), and the pti;ilie faith of the nation, it entreated his Royal Highness to use shell medes as might .be l•e•t calculated to suspend the execution of a Treaty so irjurions to the character of the G.. vcrnmeut and the cemt s." • . Lc r • CASUITIFACTI str ugly objected to the disclosures required by Gentleman ; for waning , was so injurio , ,s to the interests of vie country, or less.mcd the confident:v.of foreign states. As to the objec ius that the e:+t v vas s' long whhheld, aca remittances made to; den whilst l'adiament was sitting, liello.pea he could satisfac torily esplatn, whist was w to make every apology to the Ifouse ; but. from fataliii:.s which may always orcur—such as delay in the he was tillable to perfarni that duty before the loth of May. But it the perati:ot Of Su eden on the Continent could he considered of any use, it would. not be wise to obstruct it front any of means, or from the consider:llion of at , si.t4nce from Ili*N country. To effect so desin ab!e Hu ob:ect, Get , . Hope w; s empowered to advance a part of Subsidy, amid for that purpose Mr. Thornton made a payment of 200,00111. Sw: den was to he acquitted of all delay in folfillitur her cots , weirients. She had sent her force, to the stipulated poin• . with an trit'y admiral The•Swt.dish troops were at the points of citihark;nion long before they were expected ; whilst, by the activity of the Transport 11,ara. the requisite. transparts were dispatched from this country to Gotteuburgh, three we, ks before the time appointed ; yet they were ; 1 : entv,d, by the contrary winds, front pr , , coe diug Ibr five weeks flow •that port to Carlscromi. WI en llnonaparte ttlettlninn:d upon his Northern war, he invited Sweden to assist him wito forty thousand traeps; am' ofliqd to scenic to her the reco%ety of Firtland, and to assist her in the acquisition of other objects. In that crisis of the liar of the North, she rejected the tempting offer, and generously preferred making com mon canse, and incurring common risk, with Russia. But to enable her to carry into execution her engagements with Russia, she requirtAl Norway its a military security ; for as long as Den tnimk.remained the ally of France, and subject to the contronl of Boon•iparte, S,vetteit could not detach any eonsider;.ide part of ht r forc-e to co-operate for the defence of Russia. It was also to he i-e -cohec:cd, that %Oro Finland was attacked, three years •agn,- Den- Wart. had lovat'eti Swedel from Norway ; theretivre this cession %a., r, quired on' no other motive than that of wenvitv,ior S-Neden could mister take no t.P.'eet ive enterprize against the common enemy, Ii to T, as a hostile Power 'cane! upon her frontier Whatever In;l h .su hecu turateily Ole rharactur of Donwirk, she ha:: been of late o;.e (PI t' dependants of Fr. nee and there to+ e an oostne :,stack, on lie part, against Sweden, was to he ap prehended, sl.onid the latter take an • active part- in favour of et• the nortive vt . the stinttlatea cession,. ',cone cool I tillnite Ike great a,ty..titage of securing the co-operation'of a tarot. It ryas been placed wm the most respectable footing; iwedi THE NATIONAL REGISTER.' JUNE 20. and by the care and activity of the personage who has the 'greatest coon:mil in that country, it has been raised to 80,000 mein Front the moment of his arrival, he turned his chief attention to the army, and it soon experienced the effects of his active and intelligent miod. To acquire the co-operation of such a Poss - er, became int mediately one of the chief objects of British negoeiation. His conduct last year saved Russia, and enabled Count Wittgenstein to obtain such splendid virtmies on the Dwina ; because Sweden, in that imminent crisis, genet ously dispcused with the assistance of the large force promised her by Russia for the conquest of Norway. The indemnification proposed to Denmark for the proposed cession was the Duchy of Oldenburg)), which, though not strictly Russian, was still so connected with that Government, that it could take neon it to propose the offer. The Treaty signed between Sweden and Russia was communicated to this country in July, 1812 ; upon which occasion a most urgent desire was expressed by the contract ing parties, that Great Britain would accede to its stipulations ; which, cobsidering the state of Europe, and the danger of Russia at the time, his Majesty's Ministers thought themselves justified •in sanctioning:. They were, however, anxious to make Sweden useful to the common cause, and consented to snbsidize that Power for so teat a purpose. Site had incurred great expenees to that effect ; and the demonstrations of her forces last year paralized 60,0(X) French troops, who would have been otherwise employed against Russia, but were detained at Stralsund and Konigsberg by the me naces of Sweden to land in Germany, and act in the enemy's rear. For site!) conduct was Goadaloupe given her ; and 1w was convinced no objection would be made to a grant which would contribute to advance the commercial prosperity of the world and secure the re sistance of Sweden to the Continental System. Never was the con duct of any Government more disinterested than that of the Swe dish ; and it consented even to waive its claims on Norway, pro vided Denmark would co-operate with the Allies against France.— TA required only a small tract, which tt aye's round the northern frontier of Sweden ; and such were the claims to British aid of that Power ; and such time motives wild) induced Ministers to give Guadaloupe, in order to fix her firmly in the interests of tngland. it was Moms ible he could conclude without adverting to the situatbra ot Ifan,bttrgh. That unfortunate town had certainly suffered in a man ner which every one must commiserate ; they had indeed committed themselves in a manly, thought perhaps not in a very politic manner ; they had suffered in a manner which claimed for them the sympathy of (very one. is was a great consolation, however, to ;his country, to reflect that they had not been ledlino their suffering,: lty any repre sentations made to them by the British Government %Vial respect to Drnmark, and Count Bernstorfrs• mission to this country, there were stron , !, reasons to suspect that Iltionaparte never thought that mission eauld produce rtny thing inimic:d to his interest. This was plain, from Baonapnee's conduct and declarations; for in his dispbtrh to the Empress of May Iti, Mali he c0 ,, 1d not but suppose Como BernstorlT was still in London, he speaks elf taking his ally Denmark to the Con gress with hint, and he does her the honour of placing her first on the Fst of his good :lilies, with the exception of America only. With re sptst to the terms on which Denmark stated herself ready to treat a& soon as named, it would appear they were inadmissible. The first proposition was in itself inadmissible, namely, that we should, treat separately; and abandon Russia and Swesden ; next, tIK:t we should restore all our Danish conquests ; the Danish fleet ; and that we should also guarantee the rest of Denmark's possessions, and particulnly Norway, which they well knew we had at that time acceded to Swe. den's taking possession of. (Hear, hear !)--The' Noble Lord con cluded by uttering a high eulogium on . the character and conduct of the Crown Prince, the whole of whose past conduct he sho.idd prove had been such as to justify this country . in placing itnlilicit confidence in his hishour.--( Laud cheering!) Mr. CANNING when he first saw the Tresty, now the subject of discussion, considered it as disgraceful to the country. He tilt many objections to it : some indeed, had been removed by the ex. planation of the Noble Lord 10-oight; others, however, still re mained after hearing that explatuttloti. In justification of giving Norway to: Sweden s it was said that Sweden was restrained, bv.fear of Norway, from aiding and assisting in the common cause ; if such was the tact, how was it that he (Norway being still in possession of Denmark) the Crown Prides:, had _commenced operations by taking up a position at Stralsund ? He particularly objected to the dismemberment stf any State. ; With respect to the cession ot thiadaloupe, he otrjeekd strongly to it, It had been a contemplas lion with Government, even when he had the honodr of holding a situation in its to give to Sweden a Wf 4 India Colony ; lie did not t disapprove rite loins:4)lc, but he considered the excel:hint-as had I:he...usual made would Iwon to name the Island, but to delay the trami'er of it till peace should arrive entering indeed luta