The Sun. — London, England, 1815-01-07 00:00:00

SWEDEN AND NORWAY. STOCKHOLM, DEC. 16.--The day before yester day his Majesty the King received in the Halle State the Deputies from the Diet of Norway. 10 O'clock the Cron and Sceptre of the King were brought to the Palace, together with the Coronets of the Crown Prince arid the. Duke of .Sudermania. At half-past . eleven the Norwegian Deputies were conducted into the Hall, where they took the seats assigned to_thetn. Soon after the Royal Procession began to. enter into the headed by body-guards and heralds, and followed by the Chief Officers of State according to their respective ranks. Next came the Duke of Sudermania in coronet and mantle, after whom was the Crown Prince in similar costume. Last of all came the King with the sceptre, crown, and mantle, having his train borne by the Grand Chamberlain Baron Hamilton and Counts Steen bock and Modee. Her Majesty the Queen, and the Princesses, had previously entered the Hall, and taken the places assigned to them. When his Majesty had taken his seat on the throne, and their Royal High nesses on their chairs, the Marshal of the King dom, at a given signal, conducted to the foot of the throne the Spokesman cif the people of Nor way, who, in their name, delivered a speech, and presented the Constitution adopted and signed by the Diet at Christiania, the 4th of November, which was received by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and by him presented to his Majesty . After this, the King made a gracious reply to the Deputies, -who had the honour to kiss his Ma jesty's hand. The Chief Herald having then re ceived, from the Court Chancellor, a communi-; cation of what had passed in the Hall of State, was ordered to repair to the City, accompanied by•four other Heralds, and escorted by a detach ment,of cavalry, to announce the same to the -people. After the conclusion of the whole, his Majesty retired in the same order to his Private apartments and tier Majesty the Queen, and tlir 71' lyal Highnesses, received in their own apartments the respectful homage of the Norwe- gian Deputies.' Of the sreech of the Spokesman (Christie), delivered in the Norwegian language-, the follow-. ing Address of the Diet formed a part : "The It epresen tatives of the Norwegian people, summoned to inquire into and consider the situation of the kingdom, and to come to the most mature conclusion for its welfare, have now finished their:important task. They perceive that a union with the neighbour kingdom will not only put a pe 11,A to the devastations of war, but also, if founded on equi table conditions, open a prospect of eternal friendship for the future, and give the Kingdoms of the North complete sta bility and strength to resist external enemies. Your Majesty, ready to form such a union, recognised the right of the peo ple to constitute themselves as an Independent State, and commissioned respectable men to make known your gracious intentions, and thus to promote the union. The Representa-' tives of the nation, animated with zeal and anxiety for the welfare of their native' land, thereupon decided for a perpe tual union between the kingdoms of Sweden and Norway under a common King, gave to Norway a Constitution found. ed on the aboriginal rights of a free people, and on the 4th instant unanimously elected and acknowledged your Majesty as Norway's Constitutional King. The Representatives of the people have not fur a moment doubted_ that your Majesty, wito_commenced by recognising the rights of the nation, will continue to maintain and protect them. They are completely sati.,fled that they have acted in conformity to the wishes of the ok'.ion, and venture to assure your Majesty of the invio lable fadelity and devotedness of a people, who hitherto have never forgotten their duty to their King. May Almighty God strengthen you to govern according to his gracious purposes a kingdom which his wisdom has entrusted to )7:u. ".Ch RISTIE : l'rcsident. " WEIDENIANN, Secretary. "Extraordinary Diet, Christiania, Norway, N0v.26, 1914." The King returned the following gracious " Good Lords, and Men of Norway, Deputies from the . Diet of that Kingdom:Hl receive ,with the sincerest plea sure the assurances of fidelity and attachment which you have conveyed to me in the name of s tile Norwegian people. This solemn moment, which puts the last seal to the so hap pily established union between Sweden' and NorW , ay was lcng called for by the actual demands of the Noah. The two na tions who inhabit the Scandinavian 'Peninsula could not in the lapse of ages obey divided interests; every thing called for an union between them, founded on reciprocal respect, and supported by a common spirit of - freedom and ,honour. — Though I ascended the Throne of Sweden under gloomy prOspects, yet I derived . energy against dangers, alai hope for the future,_friik an unbounded confidence in the Swedish people. They have not disappointed my expectations ; and this people, who were so often the V ictims of the severe blows of fortune, now stand respected among the nations. With equal confidence have I now, from the free and unani `volts election of the Diet, accepted of the Crown of Nor- Way; and this transaction, a guarantee (or the principles of Ill y government, _will have the same happy conssquences.— Secured against foreign dangers, animated by the same noble adults to promote internal welfare, the Northern Peninsula will be viewed with respect by the nations of Europe. Norwegians! I have through my well : beloved Son given you my assurances, to govern the king . dara cf Norway accord ing twits laws and constitution ; and also adopted the 'funda mental principles which were discussed and agieed upon be tween my Conmissionersand the Piet. I,now repeat to yon this solemn declaration. Be in,shred that I shall ever feel it a sacred duty to meet the wishes of the Norwegian pl!ople with frieUdly readiness. Let us thank that Provideuce after such fluctuation of events and suclklengthened internal sciiscord, has 'establilied security and una4hnity in the North; let Its gig' ourselves op to thc fulutity opens to our view. , itiorwegi,:ni3 and Swede; shall alike share my paternal regard. Behold here at my side, honoured by your joint gratitude, the hero who, neat after the Almighty, has been the author of the fraternal league between you. As King and ' Father, I embrace thbropportunity to expreJ ,,, ,; to hint my own and the Forninun acknowledgments of our eountry. To bins will I, when on the concraes. of eternity, deliver, with fall, confidence, both the Crowns, e. - bich will froul him receive a new and heightened lustre. It is Le who must finish the great work of which lie laid the foundations sod \\loch I can only counnence,—to reign over you with wildness, to respect your freedom, and to defend your iodepeudence with valour. — Then will you bless the hour which gave birth to the union of the S'candinavian' Nations, and iny memory will live among you on account of my paternal efforts for your welfare, and for the Prince whom I dire you still farther to proniote it." MAILS. AnttivEn-1 Holland, i liamburgh, 1 'Waterford. DuL-1 Fratice, Lisboi;, 1 Dublin, 2 Watulord. STOCKS o i ct.neg. Bank L. Ann. 1615-160 s India Bonds, 19s. 20s. pr. I:xi:lie:1. Bills, 4s. 3s. ss. pr. Oniniinn, I ths.• Cons. for Opening, 66i muck: OF TIIIS DAY Ar7W Bank Stock, vet' Cent. Red. 65i 3 pix Cent. Cons. a ex.sliv. tar Cent. Cons. 821-k 5 per Cent. Navy Aun.94 g ex. I div. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Nlorning, 25 minutes after 12. I Evening, 50 ininutes.after 12. LT XT if QUIS DICERE FALSUNI AUDEAT ? LONDON. SAT IT RD-IY, Jd N Z.7_4 RY 7, Isls. We have this morning received Canadian Pa pers, from which we learn that the British priva teer schooner Retaliation, has been taken by a s!ratagcm of the Enemy. The United States' sloop Peacock, and the Bri tish ship :hid, were very near each other at Lan zareto in the beginning of September. It is not unlikely that they might encounter each other. General PREVOST has arrived in. Halifax from Upper Canada. The following appears in a violent opposition ialifax Paper (the Recorder)—we trust it will urn out to be an American forgery : Extract of a Letter from the Editor of the Beffalo Gazette, dated Clzirpawa Plains, Oct. 16, 1514. " I enclose you a correct copy of an- Order found in au Orderly-book of the British 6th Re giment, left in one of their Bivouacs, near Fort Erie." DISTRICT GENERAL ORDERS. Head Quarters, Camp before Fort Erie, sth Aug. 1514. " Lieut. Gen. DRUMMOND has received the re port of the Officer to whose direction the force passed to the right bank of the river on the night of the 2d inst. was confided. The indignoion. ex cited in the mind of the Lieutenant General, from discovering that the failure of an expedition, the success of which, by destroying the enemy's means of, subsistance, would have compelled his force on this side, to have surrendered to the troops by• which he is ini-ested, or by risk ing an action with the Lieutenant-General in the field to have met certain defeat, has been solely caused by the misbehaviour of the troops employed on this honourable service, will not permit him to expatiate on a subject so unmilitary and disgraceful, lie has not only to intimate therefore, that, as it is to the officers that the soldiers must ever look up for an example of intrepidity and devotion, it is also the duty of all officers to punish with death on the spot any man under their command who may be found guilty of misbehaviour before the enemy. To the troops most particularly alltided to, it is the Lieut. General's determination, to afford tinimmediate op portunity, of at once•effacing from his mind the lin pression ~ of its Officers and his own observation have produced, and of averting that report of their conduct, which he shall feel it his indispensable and imperious duty to hasten to lay at the feet of his Sovereign. Couching, ducking, or laying down w:iet) advancing under fire, arc bad habits, and must be corrected. ft " The Lieutenant-Gentral is happy to find that the Officers employed on the late expedition ap pear to have done their duty. By, Order, &c. " J. HARVEY, Lt. Col. and Dep. Adj. Gen . :" • We have Vienna Papers to the 24th ult. They repeat the news from every quarter of the world, but do not say a word upon the more important proceedings under their own eyes. They only prove, therefore, that up to this date nothing of ficial respecting Congress had transpired. A Hamburgh Nail brings us acquainted with the further formalities respecting the U n ion of Norway with Sweden, - which will ,be found in a preceding column, tinder, the head of " Sweden and Norway." 7 The struggle for ascendancy in Spain seems to be pretty nearly decided , and a general amnesty is now hinted at. It is impossible for any Briton to approve of all the measures taken by FEaDI NAND, or rather, not to censure many of them in the severest terms. But we cannot help thinking that ofSpain hav :Axe u eat y mis re pil.: , ,eute/2., and arelittle understood either in England orrrance. Whether owing to their ignorance; their apathy, their loyalty, or any other cause, it is evident that the majority of the people ate on the side of his Majesty ; that , the majority of the population detest the Constitution provided for them by the Cortes ; and that the faction of the Nobles and their adherents, against whom chiefly (under the appellation of Liberates) the late apparently harsh steps have been pursued, are not supported by the feelings olthe Country: It required, therefore, a more intimate knowledge of the state of•pinions and and of parties on the Peninsula than we have been able to procure, to speak so dogmatically as has been done in our publications on this sub ject. We do not know how nearly the throne might be threatened by a strong combina tion, so as to furnish an excuse for the severity exercised upon individuals ; but we do know that the Xing is of a - humane an , l merciful disposition, so that it is but fair to suppose that lie did not merely for the love of cruelty embark in a system of persecution. These hints we throw out merely for considera tion, and - do nut presume to give any opinion, far less to pass a judgment on this intricate _ques tion, which We could only wish, for the sake of peace and concord,. were more decently and tem perately discussed than It has been by our Press. I► has been s►►ggeste►l, that the violation of the Spanish territory at Pensacola is equivalent to the commencement of hostilities between America and Spain. The British Press of this morning ventures to assure the Public, that the union of. Mrs. PERCE . VAL arid Colonel Carta is definitively fixed, and will take place on • the Gentleman's return from Brighton. It must surely be painful to this Lady to have her feelings hurt by such impro bable reports being so confidently promul gated. • We declined noticing the first idle ru mour to this effect, consider,ing it to be the work .of some enemy to Mrs. PERCEVAL, and the family of her lamented husband ; as well as a libel upon the SeX. Were Mrs. P.. merely a private Lady, it would be impertinent in aNewspaper either to as perSe or vindicate her. But she is far removed from privacy. The character, and still more;the dreadful fate of her dead Lord, pm:pot only the British Nation but the human race a strong interest in her future life. As the WidoW of SPENCER PER . CEVAL, as the Mother of, his twelve Children, of Boys to whom the Nation looks with almost pa rental solicitude, to G ee tl.'zin finish the high course . from which their Sire was prematurely • cut off L-in these points of view, we confess, she appears to us so elevated and so sacred, that we could not witness her union with a second Husband, giving another Father to the Children adopted" by their Country, "without con sidering it as a species of profanation, of which we dare not trust oUrselves to Speak as we feel. We are persuaded the Public will real with no little sur prize the Arret for the new Legion of Ifolortr which we pro. mulgate this day. It is in tir:. true French style—so nume rous as to do little honour to those who have it, and which may give it the title of the Jacobinized Order of the Bath." So says the Morning Chronicle, and truly the sentiment is worthy of the Paper. So fair an opportunity for' Jncobinisin to calumniate the mili tary character of the Country, and diiparage those rewards which the most brave and virtuous of men have consented .to esteem among the greatsest'sti mulants to the practice of valour and patriotism, was not to be resisted. A comparison of a British Order of Knighthood with the upstart UsUrper's ,. Legion of Honour, too often the' meed - of assas sination, profligacy, paroler-breaking, and more atrocious villainy, was -a delicate mode of dis playing that indescribable amor patriee which in fluences every action of these New-school Purists. We protest, being plain men, that we can tee absolutely nothing resembling the " French style" in this new, grateful, and noble Institu tion, by which the PRINCE REGENT is desirous of evincing the ROyal consideration for brilliant ser vices performed in the Cause of our Country; and as for the numerical prostration of honour, ima gined by the ChrOnicle, it does seem to us to be the strangest argument that ever floWed from the pen of Genius. So - numerous is the body, says the WOrthy of the Chronicle, as to do little honour to those who have it ; not adverting to the fact that this blemish was no fault of the PRINCE REGENT, • but of the multitude of British Heroes who have so gloriously distinguished themselves against the friends of the Chronicle,. the enemies of Britain, that it was no easy matter to confine an Order be stowed upon military and naval merit within any thing like narrow limits. Had his argument been good for any thing, the Worthy should have shewn that the honour wasbestowed :;11 the undeserving ; if he-cannot do this, and we defy his patriotism, the number only adds to.the glory of the Empire, with- out drtracting - 011e iota front tI2C lionour ut tGc111" dividulls. Indeed this was the first tins it was ever thought that honour was dithinished by'being Par' tieitiated by an illustrious brotherhood; and instead of belugconverted to such a doctrine,we declare our 'firm belief that the multitude of the,ne w Kn i g h ts is a matter of which every true-hearted B riton, as well as every man among themselves, oug h t to be proud. Were it worth while to answer the paultry sinnation of this contemptible person, we rn ; g ilt contend that the limited extent of. the chivalrous Orders, instituted several ages ago as a . 1-11 ! ( whence to reward those_ who distinguished thenl" selves in the service of their Country, .`.%' 35 by no means adequate to meet the irresisti ble claims which bare arisen in these times, when °llt exertions by sea and land have been so procligin* ly augmented, and a scope so much larger aff orded for the display of. British talent and bravery Such an extension as has been made was a bs°- !lady wanted in justice, and the Country wi ll join with us in despising the enviolss wrctch es, who cannot, without snee r ing malignity an d i ' n " potent rage, 's ee the laurels of Old E n g land flourish, and her S on s d e cked with a yell-de served' and hard-earned ch a plet from the Nati onal Tree. Since writing the above we observe anoth er ti : rade from the Faction, under the degrading'tit le "NEW LEGION OF HONOUR:'—It complains bitter' ly that these Knights will t a k e precedence of `` plain Country Gentlemen" who have staid at linr e while they were fighting- abroad—to which Ic e shall only say, that the Duke of.WELLttsr3,TO does the same of many worthy Noblemen, , and " Polma qui meruit ferat." One would th i r that this was the first time we had ever heard °f military merit getting the start of quiet eitizeq ship. Whence, then, flows the rank of nw st to our Noble Families ? But the point is notwor an arcmment. (From the Madrid Gazettes to the 20th Ult.) h " BARCELONA, DEC. IG.—Three rich inhabitant s of Vic t' belonging to some of the first and noblest, houses, h ave been. s°zu c thrown into the prison of the Luluisition of this city. tiL ,e days ago two State-prisoners unknown were sent to Moutj by superior orders. iu " MADRID, DEC.. 19.—We enjoy the most perfect trancl lity. A general amnesty is talked of every day." In our last page will be found a copious lte' view of the excellent pamphlet relating to SaxonY i which We announced .yesterday, and to which We' solicit the attention of our Readers. I k - t •eet, in 13 Lord GAMBLER arrived in Down:ng s ihad an in chariot and tour, where his LordshipTheNoble Lord Yesterday afternoon, soon after terview with Earl BATHURST. 'S Office to Secretary of State four o'c. t proceeded from the the Admiralty, '1 GAMBIER lei AIELvILLE for some time. Lot( 9" rr , at Dover on A bur Ghent on 'Monday, and landed day evening. froin til e , _ Last night a Messenger was sent off Rh ViScOttrit E' Foreign Office with dispatches for Vise. CAW . , where he conferred w The MO REAGH, at the Congresss at Vienna. . uo c senger also took with him dispatch es from C° LElVEN,tissian Ambassador. i.. a - b" s Yesterday the Duke of Yoak. transacted , ness at, his Office in the I-Jorse Guards. -, ~.-g;.i :• General Sir Jonx MURRAY is arrived ' . r ,„ land, and transacted business ye Commander in Chief's Office. - -,- ; 44' ;;;;1 7 '4 Yesterday the Earl of BATH il' '•:1,:,,,4,' . o`' , town, and transacted business at i 14,/ , e 0 .Downing-street; in the evening his Lo -' '. l r ' , :..., . tired to his seat at Putney to dinner. bli ve The Baron D'IMBERT'S case, which was to ca been heard yesterday at the 'Coat Pit, has e • - poThp stoned to Tuesday next. onle e Earl of MALmEsatlltY was yesterday s - , e l: what better than he has been for the last na back ; but we are sorry to add, that his Lorosla, still continues dangerously ill, at Rich ni°l house, Privy Gardens. yy, I3e # Letters had been received at Bombay, fr° - ,.„04 pares, stating that CoI.RICHARPSON!S detac a- , - ,se had received orders to. move onwards, in comets quence of the Nepaul people having decrare" h ii s ly resolution to resist all attempts at our es t3- w ere meat in the disputed districts. - The troop s ti tter expected to pass at least all the hot moutbs ."" canv he as.' ; st 9V T letters from Bengal by the Susan , J il es' rived at Blackwall,,reached the India goose Y re terday, and the boxes were opened in t ile I P r oli 2 sence of a .Custom-hollie Officer, a pers on o l) 7 ' s the General Post-Office, and. the COW; Oil: Superintendant of Letters. After undergOi iii6 ',ero' formality, the letters were sen t' to the G eb dop - Post-Office for delivery in the course of yes ter o get 1 They were charged only the usual inland p us w ere i During the late open weather, when shiP 9 : vi iti i arriving with tolerable regularity in the riv er l Ole coals, the article was daily on the rise, o pt ' 8;1 5 ' price to the consumer reached from 81s• to e , se, per cbaldron. Now that the weather is "11 1 ° ) ! e & vere, and there are b u t feW arrivals, the P",cos, coals has fallen, on the three last market u,b'est full 10s. per chaldron ; and the price of the 9 of coals is 70s. per chaldron. B 0 1 ‘,, a STOPPAGE OF A CO UN TRY BANK.- , -- 111 .• • - I I 1.,- . Messrs. MAR S H, D EANE , W E STBROOnEi gi te l jece o at this place, stopped payment at half-pas t . t th e o'clock this mo rn i ng ; to attempt to dePlilettec consequence Would be futile—it , ca n be, ...tiet conceived than described 1 '' The firm had op;e0, as usual, at ten o'clock, - and at the ahove_- oe tinned 'time announced their i ns olvency' _ o f), shock was' electrical, and numerous 1awi11.50.‘,/ to all appear a n ce , i nv olved in utter destructl " 1 Reading, Jan. 5. • AO CU P