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for this peace universally desired, they demand it of
the ar'fnies and of the people, exhausted in its popu-
lation, loaded with taxes, wounded in its noblest Ifeel-
ings, robbed of its children, whose industry is fettered,
and who, since Napoleon has governed it, has neither
' peace for the present nor security for the future. •;
" Frenchmen ! look around you—the abyss is still
open-zthe fiend which plunges you into 'it is still
lifted l—shall k throw the last of you in ? Will you
permit the whole population of your country to
perish And do not you perceive that nothing can
better the inhuman man whom fate has hurled over
you ? In'the wide cir.;uniference of the beautiful,.
once happy Fiances where ii the man who enjoys His
freedom, his life, and whom the commands of Napo.
leentAivit-tiotreached ? Compel him, then, to con-
clude-the peace whit), is required from you.
" On the other hand, should the dreadful evils
which result froM a tyrannical Government, prevent
the( French people and its armies frOtn•deilating for
pe*ce, the Allies must lament that they cannot reach'
the Oppressor of France, but through a people wh,,m
they:Often.), land even then their motto will be—
" Mar with the Corsican, inviolability of the tern.
• tory, Peace and friendship with delivered France."•
The following Declaration appeared, on the 17th,
at Middiefart, on the Nand of Funen:
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Micidlefart, January 17, 1813.
It By the care of the Danish Government, the war
which already, for fifleetn years, had. devastated Eu-
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rope,, had not.disturbed the repose of the Danis)] nit-
ca the Kirtg for a moment, sailrhitrisaf
und•er. 'ilecce4slHY or iising defeesiie means, partly
for tie protection. of his subjects' commerce, and
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partly. for the'tec,urity of his provinces bordering
C' rue • •
" The attack Made by the. English on his Ma-
jestin caPital, 'and carrying Of the Danish Fleet, in
the year 1807, put 'an end t 6 the happy tranquillity
which..his Majesty had, until then, been enabled to
preserve for his subjects. The Danish States, at that
time, had the same common enemy with France; and
the consequence wits; 'That an alliance was sought
and concluded with that Power. The Emperor,
openly and directly, promised men and money ; and
a numerous army immediately moved into the Pro-
vinces belonging to his Majesty the King.
" It was-agreed, that the expense of its support
shntild`be defrayed by the French Government, and
- this amounted to a sum of several millions of six:.
dollars. Wlthout undertaking any thing, however,
this army remained a burthen longer than the Da-
-nish Government thought requisite. The expense
of its support remained unpaid, and the requests of
Denmark on this point were equally fruitless as those
concerning the announced requisitions in imeney;
The situation of a State whose Tesources were al.
ready diminished by the naval war, and by these
' naval disbursements become totally exhausted, again
refixed a most prejudicial influence from the shut-
' ting of the Continental ports, which was represented
• as one of the M feeans.r obtaining a general peace.
The annexation of 'the Hanse Towns and contiguous
Provinces to the'Fiench Empire, became afterwards
a nt6st heavy barihen, with regard to the commercial
intercourse with Germany: teects extended even
to literary counectiens. Earnest professions, which
we-Ali-reit:leafy renewed, had given hopes that these
obAcles, Which Were so directly
.ecnitearytb the
good understanding in which hii Majest,y enntrikuted
all in his poWer to remain with the French Govern.
men: would have been removed; but theie hopes 'at
ways remained unfulfilled.
ie Whilst the French army was retreating, in the
winter between 1812 and IHI3, the Imperial troopsj•
which, according to a particular agreement, were to
haVe remained for the protection of the frontiers of.
Holstein, were drawn away. As the French Go-
vernment had, at the same time, declared its inten-
tion of entering into negotiations for peace with ail
her enemies, the King deemed it important for hitti
• to make overtures of peace to Great Britain. The
alliance with France WAS now becon:e of no utility.
The King would willingly have prevented the cities
of Hamburgh and Lubeck from again falling into
the hands of the French, in order to keep the war
from his Own frontiers, and save from destruction';
those cities, whose interests were in such direct con-
=don with those of his subjects ; but his Majesty
wars obliged to desist front the prosecution of this
plan ; his interests therefore required that he_should
accept the offer made him of renewing the-alliance
with France and to give it a larger extension, in order
to
..as4ure him of a powerful assistance against those
Sovereigns who had not hesitated to declare that they
would support the demands of Sweden, which were
-; • inimical to the integrity of his States.
" The King, on his pal t, has conscientiously per-
formed the stipulations of the treaty. Whilst his
- auxiliary troops were fig!iting by the side of the
Frcocit troops, they received only a part of the pay
'which according to the agreement was their due, and
bib. Majesty's subjects suffered a considerable loss, as
well by the embargo laid on their property which
was deposited in the cities of Lubeck and Hamburgh,
of which the French Government took to itself the,
privilege oftfispesal, as by taking away the funds '
- the Bank in the last mentioned city.' The promises,
of restoration given in consequence of the complaints.
thereon made, remained equally with the reciama-
tiortrade on the subject without effect.
" It was assured by the Treaty, that twenty thou-
sand men should be in readiness to protect the Du-
chies and Jutland ; but Marshal d'Eckmuhl quitted
the position which covered those provinces, and re-
peated with all the 'troops under his command, to
Hamburgh, leaving the King's troops to their own

4 fate, and who were 4 not able to withst7and the superior N
force which was moving forward, to force, by their, on 1:
overmatch in strength, an entrance into the country. is
The enemy's irruption into the Duchies, together whi
with the loss of the fortresses, was followed by the An
Iting's being forsaken by an Ally, on whose as,is- will
tance he had reasot,able grounds . for placing a re- th:s
Lapse. Hip Majesty has been under the necessity of qi
cowtingtotthtfreatest sacrifices to protect the re- bee
mais4g„part of his States from invasion, with which tish
their were threatened 4 laud by the combined troops the
of 4„eispersa AAA for the purpose of again get- the!
tink . .4.opßrial thOie Proainces which had fallen, we
int 6 I,' ' ,', 4nuf, . 'A. the:
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t gr.fwg bis Minister at the Court of the 1
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.;" 1..4/10 Pii: and declared to the Minister of 13"
his .. pal .
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