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 greatly 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