Star.
London, England, 1814-05-13 00:00:00

t Prinee, that we should put aide the.engagements
1 we had made. If this treaty weren violatipo of *tern
) nal justice, and of the law of ..natione-rif .were
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transgression of the law ..of Got., then. if tht were
made out. he would admit It inight•itiat in 'be 1-41:
filled. It we sinned in mablitgnovbiltatildisbrain
io breaking it, it we madetbe partp•suffering from.
our doing so, all the reparation in our power.. The
colduct pursued towards Nqrway he again vindicated
by referring to the public: writers he had qtimted
fore. Norway, as Wanes* to Desiinarkiaritti•whiltti '
we were at war, are had :a . right* to conspiet if lea
could, and we had a right to contract acritb .s doh*
power to effect its subjugation. If it were proved.
that this was contrary to the law of natiqus, lie would
give up the argument. A ceded people, it was said,
most consent to the cession before it could take place;
but how was this expressed but through their legit'.
mate organ the King ? T.w King of Denmark had
consented to the cession.. of Norway, and we were
bouni by solemn treaty to car; '
that cession into ef-
fect. But it was said fslorw.4.Was part of 'Sweden;
or part of Denmark. If port Of :Defittraik, it
been ceded to Sweden., and we. had nothing -more to
do ; 11 it aas part of, Sweden, -with that country we
were at peace. He should avoid both hores.of this
dilemma. If it part of Dentin* it was bound
to obey the law of Deemed*. 'lf It' itefuied to fulfil
the treaty inade.by Denmarls,ltaptabediteell by such
conduct in its former state of .shor with this country.
They could in that case have no sight to benefit by
the peace between the two Powerq. it was said the
plan formed ti,r starving them into subMisiimi Wats•
one not to be contemplated without herrear% 'Gob
forbid that he should wish any nation to be-placed in
this situation; but by unequivocally stating our ins
tendons, he thought we might save the Norwegians
from the miseries of famine and protracted war. He
thought it would be mercy to Norway to put forth
our means in concert with our' llies at once, in'order
to convince them resistance would be vain. The si-
tuation of Norway, he could not think likely tobe at
all deteriorated by its union with Sweden. , This to
bin* was a consoling reflection, though under talter
- icircumstancei he should still have contended We were
bound to .fulfil the treaty we had eoneliided. On
these grounds he most cordially..opposed the motion,
belies:sag ;that,.;iitatead: off propitiating the BUttsua
Qoitsiums Ofe,worid, by agreeing to it, -to d0.,50
Would onlf'heve the effect offf-heaping greater dis-
grace on this nation, than had ever fallen On ant,
other country. . • • „.
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Sir J. MACKINTOSH, referring the ciftdm.
stances under,oohich the Treaty between Russia' alyd
Sweden had.bette concluded, eulogised in the.. highest
terms the sprendidesertions of the formecPower
the cause of Europe. He.admitted the convention
wiih'Seredin; to..erhich this' Counirrwas a party, to
be binding; btirsteted the'queidem before the House
tobe this, vrhither this toonory war bound in fact or
by sight, to compel the kindoto•Of Norway to sub-
mit to. the domination of Sweden, by a treaty conclud-
ed with Sweden against the Crown of Denmark ? He
tiohtended it could not birid us to Mike was on an in-
dependent power, which Was not in 011M:since •vihen
the-treaty *as made. AR that was asked by ‘the
lution.under consideration ww, that a pause should be
Made to give time for enquiring into the real state of
thitie in 11/4/Ofway, before the most odious measures
Of hoitility inert resorted to. Those who &mated
whether the insurrection in Norway was unanimous
or who doubted of any of the facts .which had been
made public, were pound to vow for the Address. It
had. been *sired,. tf Swede, would have accepted. our,
tielairtd the treitybetween her and Russia, with a
Proviso that it should not be enforced, if k met with
resistance froth the 'Norwegian people? 'He would an-
WWI SwedettsectlAdo if-she had read the Lew of Na.a
tithis as laid down by Grotius, PuffendorfFrindVattel.
Recognising the tutiverially,ryFeived writings of these
men as thelaw of Ettrofie,' ilve was boknd to admit
the proviso, as much as if it, hit been intend:in the
Treaty• These he proceeded, to 414Aptiri by*mis-
tions from those eelebrated we ken, Fc* a Prince to
cede a million of men by one stroke of pen, was to
cifre on white slave trade, to outdo the wontscenes
`exhibited 'in Congou or , Bohemia. The resistance of
fipeo'ple was not to he treaie4 to lightly. One pro.
- new, he contended ,wal Mote than equal to a thouslnd
ocquiestences. He then adverted to the .cessionzol
the Island of Corsica by the Republic of Genoa, untie
iraced Rani the circumstances which that cession led
to, the production of that mind which had afterwards!
heady destroyed the liberties of the world. The •cei-
sion of the Tyrol by Austrii he treat notice 4, and,-
quired if the gallant resistance of the:', YroiLose Warm
be stigreatned as a rebellion and if that here wlib,
fighting tor his country, had prottably46: his blood;
platted the seeds of European *Ai at this
time of.day to be called a traitor. The vote 'of the
House that night would decide • whether he deserved
to rank with Spine, and Hsmpden, or wascine of thel
blackest traitors that titer prolonged'the horrors. of
War ? He wislie,d to aik• the, Learned Gentleman if
there.werp no cases in which the people might with
jnatkce resist the attempts of their Sorereigns to cede
them to foreign Powers ? He put it to him it. the
King of Spain were to cede the fine peroviate of An-
dalusia to the barbarian called the Emperor of Mo..
ropco, or to the Bey of-Algiers, would it be high tree.;
son in the people to refuse their consent to filch a
transfer ? 'foe actor peasant of Norway had that arti-
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field instinct—that love of his native land, without
which he could be no man, without %Asia, the country!
could be no country, but merely a wretched bundle of
slaves. A parallel case orthat of Norway was fur•
tithed by Sisetland. Had not her! sons resisted Ed:
ward.' as grit, suffsred themselves to be
Inade slowest'. they could never have become useful'
1 trienilsecothat great country to which, it Was now their
honour and their glory 'to belook.- It was-because I
they:hid and-pee:aim aWptigithina suffered I
martyrdern that they had become t 'they were.
• and that trOm them the annals of Great Dritaintad
been graced with the name's of an' Abeyer.,44ol, a
t Toloore,antd a Orthant: •He iiriKeeded Olefin* the
I 4 haral case. of,the, gerwegiane inbelsgsubjetted tothe
. hoarser, of famine for choosing their own Government;
He tomcod/dab:at When the ling • of Dehnlarlt ,had
abdicesed the 4overeignty owerthem they had a eigtt
to act for themselves, and as an independent yrt-irti
mast comnsit'sotne act of hostrTity'befor4 any ti
- • could With luidce declare war against .thettu!",
• Han. Gentleman wished to• know whether the rising
waspartial or general, and this he %Tithed toadflf
by Statovingitbetaholepeople, But it wal`ratid they lllld