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fate shall trot be separated from theirs . The commissioners are very unfortunate in the support of their cause * for they talk in one place of V the resolution of the prince to place himself at the head of an # -
Ugihmate opposition is the sole cause of the misfortunes of his true epupr try . ** How the defence of a country against the invasion of a couutty by a forei gner can be called an Ulegje timate opposition we do npt ^ sjee-The allied powers had no more
right to giye up Norway to Swedep * than they have now to give iip Tartary to the Emperor of China ,. By the very constitution of Norway it was impossible in the kijBg . of Denmark to transfer his sovereignty to any other person . 3 f ; he
pretensions , therefore , of the allied £ QY £ ers rest entirely on the sw ^ jand the defence of every country By its natives is legitimate , in oppositiQ ^ to any army , that shall atteinpt ffi conquest . If the English were ¦| ys tified in defending Spain against
the usurping Buonaparte ,, wdjfojfc Spaniards have been praised fer the gallant defence of th . eir country ,, what shall we say of its blockade of Norway , and how much higher will the Norwegians stand , if they should , against such an unequal force , maintain their independf ng ? . Fearful are the odds ; but if ttajg *
way can stand its grOupji this summer , the voice of the people m ^ y be heard in the approacjring congress , and Europe be spared , tljj disgrace of imitating Buonaparte , jijt the worst of his actions .
These are not the only consequences of the peace , at which the friends of humanity must shudder * Already the French papers haveentered into the calculation of the
sacrifices to be made by Africa for the jjext five years ; and they esjU » mate the demand of Dowuugo alo ^ £ at ten thousand Africaj ] isl to foe torn from \\ hmMu $ Lt * ym vpy afe ChrMh m ^ ^^^^ pmif ^^ J * rt » / p im ? " ? ay . *«« Fr ^ ni ^ present Q them selves m bum-^ prpfi t ^^ to thei r p ^ trone *^
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'sc ^ ii ^ V M ^ iicli displayed , and in fact , the proclamation speaks of some new regulations to take place in the conduct of this unholy office . Public burnings will hardly ? be revived 5 but who can say , how many persons will be doomed to wear out their lives in the
dungeons of the office , and to s uffer the tortures of the secret tribunal . Soldiers are bad missionaries yet surely the Spaniards , who have fought side by side with the heretic catmot but feel some compassion for file sufferings he may undergo from the unrelenting malice and savage barbarity of the priests
iKromith ^ se me lancholy results of the peace , our eye is turned to the North , ^ ttd ^ he re as great a tvound is inflicted on civil , as in the south 00 ? religious ¦ liberty , The war is begun ? between Sweden and Norw ^^ ca tid i&tate papiBrs of high
impoitance have . been given to the public , stating the communications between the allied powers by their comnaission ^ rs aii d th e kin g of Nor-M , Bt $ * , /^ i ^ the part of the former it is seated , -ttiat f ^ the cessation of Nopay , WcU ; guaranteed by the four powers , allies af Sweden . That
deerae jpf * policy 1 ivas irrevocably fixed ^ < The i allied sbv ^^ eigris conaider ^ the m ^ ion ; of ; Norw ay and Sweden as one ^ of the bases , of the new sj ^^ em ^ of , equilibrium , as a branch of indemnities , which it is
impossible to replace by any other , " To this the king replies , «* that the Norwegian nation , delivered from the oath of fidelity to the king of Denmark , and not acknowledging bis power to cede them in full sovereignty and property to the king of Sweden , wish to avail themselves
of those rights , which , in similar c ^ es * belong according to public opu # < Na , tp ^ yer natioi ) . " Jlis m ajflsfcy , how : eic ^? , foreseeing the ^ Yit
w ; % canft f ^ t ^ is ^ llm & *? * $ & % *> p » pretension ^ l ? ut ^ i » ly into tbe ** md * vfAfrpfa ^ f i ; w % ^^ i ) Of *?* aBprewa , he Will iastgiotly ab-Wt ^ lheH iift ^^^ i ^ « iv | is
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were then Stottt of BubHc Affairs . 52 S
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1814, page 523, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2443/page/75/
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