The National Register.
London, England, 1814-08-28 00:00:00

ME NATIONAL REGISTER.

A 1.70 . 28.

Britain ; and he cannot doubt but it will he taken into due conside.
ration by a Govertime4 which represents a people capable of esti-
mating the value of liberty; sail ho, if Owed in the same situation.
would most assuredly lie piepared to mak,- the slow saerfiet's as the
Norwegians. His Majesty is also persuaded that his Royal Higheess
the Prince Resent of Great Britain, who so well knows what is due
from a Constitutional Regeot to his people, will not admit that he
could ever be capable, of his own authority, of sactiileing the
rignts of that people, who, with a firm confidence in his integrity,
deli keret, to him the Crown. It is only the people themselves that,
through their representatives, eats undertake to alter the Constitu-
tion. or allow of the imion of Norway with any other kingdom.—
( Vide entatitulion 14 and 110.)
Ev,-ry Norwelian, and every Englishman, as %yell as every one
who tel properly for human worth and happiness, must regret that
at this period, when the Powers of Europe have conquered a Conti-
neotal pence, and restored national libeity, that at this very tiine
the same Powers should unite in acting in opposition to principles
that hithet,to have been their guide, by subduing, at the suggestion
rf Sweden..i free awl respectable people. But as vet, the sword is
clay half CHWII, and the voice of humanity, uttered by truth, which
way still he heard by Great Britain, and the other Powers. w ill, it
is to he hoped, cause them to. 'Meet on the undeserved conduct they
ar about to adtjpt towards the people of Norway.
I: most also be'aeknowlmiged, that tine policy, and even the v.d-
fare of the Swedish natitai, in-ges the pi etio ence of a reasonable at-
rang •ment between Sweden and Norway, stlirreby liberty and
loisiour would not be eompromised, to the renewal of a sheddin2 of
Lt oil in the Ninth ; anti in the pro suasion that the Prince Itegept
or flogland is possessed of noble, just, and benevolent principles, his
Majesty with the fullest cootidence applies to him to grant hi. ine•
diatiou between Norway and Sys edeu on a bases %%hereby the happi-
ness and librt tv of the NorwPgirns would be severed :—the. Norwe-
gian people and their Rine derivend only the principles of the rights
of nations to be acknowledged, awl requite that the eveuts that kive
taken place in Norway should be property known to be Justly
Judged. It is certainly not the attached, but those that unjustly at-
t.iek tt ho urge a war.

Jn couclit..ion, permit mc, by ALOcsty's express command, to
add, that if the expected mediation of P.L.!land is not directly in up-
iwsition to the Constitution of the kingdom, or the deehration of the
i)iet of the path of .Mai, which for tlic present are his Majesty's
on& e iating gothic*, he will look upon it e 4 his duly to lay &berme
an assemblage of the States the progress of such mediation; but as
three or tour months would be reipiireel for the assembling of the
Diet, it would be necessary, to prevent in the meau time all blood-
shed, awl which in all probability must he useless, that Great Britain
.!:(•;111,1 use tier influence with Sweden, to procure for Norway,what ske
has indeed a right to expect from an impart al mediator,—a perfect
of ality, free.import and export rums and to England, which all
Norwegians, accustomed to view the English as their greatest
frieo:!s, look upon as their highest advantage. How happy am I in
havill this opportunity et applying to a man who is a lover of troth,
and is horn it is any duty to tidiness with that sincerity, which is also
expressed in the assurance of esteem with which I remain,
Your most obedient servant,
HOLTEN. (

Christiank, June 8, 1814.
To J. I'. 1110RIER, E•q.

The Commissioners of the Customs have been reprimanded
by the Lords of the Treasury for permitting scandalous
seizures of property by their officers, under pretence of irre-
gulatity. Among other instances, equally gross, twenty
casks of sugar, marked It S were seized at Bristol, because
o dot was not placed after each letter ! They were afterwards
off:4-er' to be iestored, on paying a guinea for each cask I
This, however, the Lords of the Treasury would not allow to
be paid, " it being quite manifest that no fraud could have
been intended."

Sir Francis Hartwell retires from the situation of Deputy
Comptroller to the Navy Board ; and Commissioner Boyle
cif the Transport Bo ird to he Resident Commis,ioner at
Sheerness Dock in the town of the late W. 1..0hh, Esq..
Mr. Cook, the Under Secretary for Foreign :Mks, pro-
ceeds from Paris to Vienna, to act as- Principal Secretary to
Visc,ont Castlereagh at the Congress. Mr. J. C Nlorier
IS appointed Under Secretary of State during his absence.