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PROCLAMATION

OP CTRFR &I. •Rilbl:l.ilT, ON UNTURINO NORWAY

Inhabitants of Niirday ..—Thc Danish tioetritinent 11114 de-
clared war against Swede u, without guy manse ar pr.irocat
on her part ; it has crowned the calasuitOs that afflicted the
North, and spontaneously submitted to a foreign yoke.
'llse Swedish boar, therefore, enter your emintry accord-
ite.: to the laws 11.1 war, in order to prevent hostilities from
being committed 'it their own country. But the laws of aat
are carried into exerne only by soldiery; the peaceful in
liabitattNi of the towns and country, if they excite uo disturb
&nee., shall enjoy tranquillity and protection.
The ftwedish soldiers, celebrated fur order mud discipline,
respect the peraunal safety, and property of the unarmed ;
and should Providence fleas His Majesty's arum, the mom
finder my CUIDEI3IIIIII, so far from proving hurtful to your dif-
ferent trades, shall open Your ports to coerce aniinsport-
atiou; quicken your industry; and secure in the North au
asylum fur loyalty and 'clown,'
AtuusTus MAURICE: ARAIFELDT.

STOCKHOLM, •PRIL 21.

liis Iloyal :ITajesty recei I vet. a (-wirier, the night
before la,t, with dispatches froin Gen. Boron Arm-
feldt, which mention the following reports of the
Itith awl 17th of this month :

4. C 70.1. pursuance of his orders, which
directed him to make a diversion, detactoll trio foot
and chasseur, under the onlers of Lieutenant Lk-
on Cedertrom, to attack Skarbokiloti, to push
forward as far its Nya, and to take post near that
place. This detaclitnent, however, met with so
much r sistance, that Baron Cederstront was oLliged
to fall back; which retrograde movement he effect-
ed, with the utmost order, and without being pur-
sued by the the enemy, notwithstanding his vast
superiority in number".
Illead-quartert, Ailelphsfors, ttith April 16, ism'.

is In pursitance of the orders received, the ad-
vanced guard marched, under the comtnitild of
Lieutenant-Colonel Lagerbrim4, on the 14th inst.
from Skillingmark, 1:y Kroaforsen, into Norway',
idler having driven back the enetu's trgop•. Ur

9ftei;...ad9 hushed hil
.411.1couttuud 1.14

litc:i A.drcii he
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.r a

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tileto v, driveu tei '•,. .1 I
.• he 14to to the 'potion?, ;
of tfe bliAsole otoicheit i Pig
MO Met with little oppoaitiots.
•• The left wing of your NlitjeNiy',4 army
wediately advance to (lowtur, olacuce the n,
courier shall he dispittclkil.

.. On the front err, the e.iemy made in geNT4
hut very little resistance. The militia sr.•u, i,„,t
urders to fall bad to a Sitn.:lg body of trot)}
heitibicii at some distance from the c(mthleb."
Htad.ynart,ra, Moroni, April 17,18,11."
(SakkAolol Apnl

V./W*lolll I.M APIIIL
Ilis Royal 'Majesty halt receivel the tau tot.
lowing reports flout CenerulA Count Kliiiv‘po.,
iliot &Iron Ariureldt, touching the opencuoin
the Fumish and western array :

. •
(The first of them Reports was given ie THY. hum,
PiEbg of Monday last, dated fialajorhie, April
the concludin: sentence, which is as follters trot
" la cousequeuee of the weather hasiug become w„,it
milder than it was, I have adopted the res.ilot:.,s to hos
this position is the course of to-morrow, and to I 01,111.Ue
tw
march to Uleaborg.—Nl. KLIP•GSPOK. head. qua
kalajoekie, 7th April, 1ai.4.1
. _

"AccOr.ding. to a report received from Colour)
Gahn, he detached, on the 11th, about 100 melt to
recommitre the road to New By. This corps Was
engaged with the enemy before it reached Slam
bokil, but afterwards saw none of the enemy's
troops, until they reached New By, where II triflait
action took place, with some loss on the part or 16
enemy. The detachment afterwards pushed for.
ward to Glomme, and took poooessiou of a redoult
!blown up by the enemy.
. . . .

" Ilead...puthers, Ado pb.siort, Aped 13.
" G. M. ARMYELDT,
" Genres! Is Chief of the Wasters Army-.
(Steck/am Gezeite, April g.)
• trroceßoui. Arm 19.
By a report made by Admiral Baron Cailerstrue,
Commander-in-Chief of the Swedish aquadma,
dated at sea, April 9, the said squadron put to sea
the 31st el' last month, and stood for Bornholia,
and afterwards fur Rage's, where it was joined by
the Swedish frigates (Urea* and Jarranws, amt
the brig Dolphin. On the 4th of April the lai;
Jarrow* took a Danish 'merchant vessel, and a
Prussian vessel had before been taken by tee C'tsap-
sm. Oa the gth of April, the date of the remit,
the squadron was cruising between the Isle of Al«
and the Swedish court.—y(iottesbarg Gawk,
April 2C.) _
The ("general Post Office in Stockholm, his,
given notice, that His Swedish Majesty bas
given leave to all Swedish Merchants to correspond
on lawful mercantile transactions, with siihjes t,
the hostile powers, on condition, that the letter, he
previously inspected and examined, by the chief
Magistrate of each place.—(Ssigeking;he Gentle,
Apr.l 27.)

6.* In oar Literary Catalwar, for last Meath, the fs.
lowing Fiveiru 'mined :—Reeifeciu and Bralgeliaa Lr,
Tire knight of the -Hermitage; or, The Windwal Ts; ret;
or, The lipectre d ghe North•not Gallery ; with a Prchate
u performed at the Theatro-Remi Caust-Gertiau ; allured
tram the heath et M. Martaludie ; sad adopted Se tee
English Seep, by I'. Dibeiba. Price N.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
SATURDAY. MAT 7.

The division, in the House of Commons, ea
Thursday night, upon the grant to the Maynoods
College, was given incorrectly, yesterday, in all the
Papers. The actual numbers were, for the greater
grant, f 7, for the less grant, 106, being a majo-
rity of ouly 19 iu favour of :Ministers, and not of gas
as has bees erroneously stated. Upon a question
so sharply contested, and to which Mr. Pcactvat
has udliered.with so much pertinacity, this advan-
tage is only a nominal victory. The real triumih
is %idle the Opposition, because the formidable mi-
nority of 'rlaursday night holds out a confidrot
expectation of the ultimate success of a steady and
constant appeal to the good sense of the country in
all questions bottomed upon the broad and liberal
principles of an enlightened policy. Mr. 11.'
FORCE lutist remember the prejudice and passan
which so lung opposed the Abolition of the Slave
Trade, and how often lie suffered a defeat; yet,
with the honest and potent aid of the present
Opposition, when in power, all that prejudice and
passion melted away, by constant exposure to the
sun of truth, and his labours wereat length crowned
with the most brilliant success. Mr. Witnsar
vortex has witnessed as much opposition to the grant
of a few inches of room in the hold of a Guinea
ship, to the Negroes in the middle liassage, as ass
made by the Minister, on Thursday night, to the
grant of carol. to the great mass of the population
of Ireland. NI ithout any claim therefore to prophecy,
or incurring the censure of presumption, it may net
be extravagant to say, that the Catholic Quest
is doomed to run the round of the Abolition of the
Slave Trade—that it is doomed to suffer delays,
defeats, and disappointincuts, hut that if advocated
with the same ability, the mine propriety and per-
severance, it will filially prevail. That the situa-
tions of the A frican Slave and the Irish Papists are
similar, is a positioa that we do not propose to
maintain; but we 11.111 thiilk that the pril,ciple whit
it
would lilac:. the Mack negro On a level with wh:tx
inetwe tms.at ut, cannot refuse pldee the 1:•J1
Cathohc on a Ictt I etb his Prt)ttlot ant
It btu in a spirit sf henevoleaee and
hullo o unil erica in its and nu-
-6il u. 01,%:.:.1. .I.lle Alna,, e. a.l-

mu

faciPs sou OakRIOS ass,
Nee thvvisa tauten qualeiu eincet ewe Sarum 1.

011 my

Ce and

tid etn-
iv.: ad-

1::,r, are ue:ther aterestll or stature, but
ucaerer dialinct iu feature, they betray <me emu-
stock ;

Ir was therefore with regret we saw air. Wit-
lIERFOIMC arJelit in hi* opposition to she grata
of the paltry addition of 44tittu to the Cada°.
lksi. It was with content we aw Mr. PIKIKEV AL
leaped with him, who should be °um," in u
cause of which even Lord CASTLE/A/LOU and Mr.
CANNINti Were twltaimed. The fiery acid of Loctor
Dt:ltitt: All the pitlAit: had a right to expect. It
has served him well. He is already Vicar-General
to roost wf the Bishops of Ireland, and is shortly
to be made a Nvy Counsellor, for the benefit of
his advice in re. Irs...esticial affairs. The rod hut
:cal of Doctor ;./t. [WM AN has made him a pro-
minent Gore, a principal character in the piece;
but Mr. Wtt.ntaieaca is a man of great acquire-
ments and superior talents ; he has every thing to
lose, and nothing to • gain, by adopting the Doc-
tor's creed. The world were not prepared to be-
hold the Champion of the injured African a leader
b the ranks of the enemy to the Catholic claims.

The Gottruburgh Mail due on Sunday last al.
Tired . yesterday, with letters and peptic to the
28th ult. The Swedes are advancing rapidly into
Norway. Accounts reached Gottenburgh on the
25th, that they laid advanced within 70 English
miles of Christiania, the c*pital of the kingdom.
The ofTkial accounts, however,. do not come down
later than the 17th, at winch date the Swedish bead.
quarters were at %oast. The Swedish General, on
entering Norway, published a .Proclamation, con-
ceived in mild and liberal terms, and forming a
contract with the revolutionary language addressed
ley the Russians, nu their entering Finland.

The Swedish fleet sailed, on the 31 st of Marchand
was heft, on the 7th of April. cruising between the
isle of Morn and the Swedish coast. An attack
was made, on fee 13th, by three English vessels,
one of them the Daphne, of ill guns, tapas the
harbour of Ftastrand, in Jutland, opt of which
they e•ut ten vessels, Weil with corn, mad carried
them to Gotteuburgh.
The Kin of Sweden has permitted a correspond.
once with the hostile countries, through the me-
dium of the Sweetish Post-Office, the letters to to
liable to previous inspection.
The Swedish Pas,iers contain no accounts of the
operations in Finlandmf a later date than those re-
ceived soma days mina, dated Kalajoekte, April 7.
The Swedish Commander-in-Chief states, that he
was at that date preparing to fall back to fleabag.
We adhere to our original opinion, that the Rai-
sians have only stopped their pursuit, contenting
themselves with the occupation of Southern Fin-
land, whieli is the most valuable and desirable
part of it. We see no reason to conclude that they
have retreated. On the other head, we are assured,
that the people of Norway oppose a very feeble re-
sistance; and should the Swedes succeed in effect-
ing the conquest, they will have no reason to regret
the loss of Finland.—Norway is a greet stripe of
coast, and there are not between it and Sweden
any of those natural boundaries which point out
other countries us intended to be distinct and se-
parate. Sweden,with Norway, wonkl be inestiscorn-
pact end consolidated than Sweden with Vinland,
which latter country is divided from it by the
Oulph of Bothnia. This, however, is to presume,
that both conquests are to be .permanent. The
more probable presumption is, that in the treaty
of peace, which soon or late must arrest these revo-
lutions in the North, Norway is destined to l•e
restored to Ds.;imark as an equivuleut fur the
restoration of Finland to Sweden.

Her MAJUTT will hold a drawing-room next
Thursday.
Mr. Jonteson, a King's Messenger, arrived on
Thursday, at Harwich, hy exvreea. and imme-
diately proceeded on board the Beesley packet,
Captain ?loam, ti►r Gottenbiirgli, which imme-
diately prepared to set sail, without waiting to take
a Mail on board. It is said that Mr. Jonsson is
the bearer of dispatches of the greatest import-
ance.

A Flushing Paper of the 2Gth ult. was received in
town as Tharsd.ty. It contains nozhing of particular
importance. King Louts is stated to have entered
his new palace at Amsterdam, where he was received '
by the acclamations of the people.
By a new decree Flushing is united to France.
A Memorial has been presented by the Under-
writers, at LLOYD'S, in consequence of the captures
which doily take place off our coast.
The Captain of an American ship (the General
Meknes, of New York), which has been just brought
by one of our cruisers into l'iymonth, communi-
cates that he was, en his passage from China, skip-
ped by one of our men of liar, and had 2.3 of his
crew tak-rt out, and the man of war in return put
15 of her hands on hoard his ship, all of whom were
by age and inknuity rendered incapalile of fulfilling
a seaman's duty. The 45 men taken out of the
Ceased Clark n, the Captain alleges to have been
all native American', nitb the certificates of whose
birth he is furnished, and that he stated this to the
Officers of our man of war, upon whom it had no
effect.—The General Clarkson was bound front
Canton to Amsterdam, with a very valuable cargo,
intimated at above 100,0001.