After this events followed one another with some rapidity. Sweden proceeded to assert hor claims by force, and Karl Johan Boruadotte lod a Swedish Army across the frontier; but the campaign only lasted fourteen days. After some unimportant skirmishing an armistice was agreed. to, and the Convention of Moss was hold on the 14th of August, at which the Allis, England, Prussia, Russia, and Austria, wore represented. Thi tion abrogated the treaty of Ki agreed to maintain the Norwegian constitution, provided ho was chosen King, and the Storthing was again summoned to consider the question. Chri tian Frodorick's courage, however, failed him, and ho resigned and left Norway on the day the Storthing met. There was now no further difficulty and the Swedish King Karl XIII was elected King of Norway by the Storthing on the 4th of 1814. The Crown Prince came and swore to observe the Norwegian Constitution, and the next year the Rigsakt, or Act of Union, assed by the Storhing, 'This Constitution has been sworn to by every succeeding King of Norway and Swi -£don up to the present day. Tt thus appears that the Constitution (Grundlor) approved at Eidavold on the 17th of 1814, is the Magn' Charta of Norway, the guardian of her political freedom, the basis of her Union with Sweden, and the document to whose terms all differences! betiweon the tivo countries require to be rotorred.
Before touching more particularly on: these terms, one interesting point of military history requires to be cleared up.' Why did the military campaign last only fourteen daya? And, it may be farther asked, is not something dus to the mag-unanimity of Karl Johan and the Swedish people for granting such favourable terms to an apparently conquered foe who made so poor a fight? But here again this scant summary of events does serious i to Norway. Karl Johan was an tute politician as well as an experienced soldier, and there can be no reasonable doubt that the Convention of Moss was a mutual compromise, and that Norway was very far! from entering into it as a conquered provines, The result was partly owing to the pressure of the Allied Powers, partly to Bernadotte's anxiety to settle the matter without delay on the eve of the Congress of Vionn1, and largely also to the fact that Sweden was not then fully prepared to carry on the war and compel the Norwegians to submission by force of arms. Karl Johan must have known full he difficulty of a fight to a finish in thickly-wooded mountains of st so hardy and determined 8 foe. So he took what he could get at the time, probably less than he wanted, much to the disappointment of the Swedish governing classes. These had hoped for auuion by which Norway would have become a mere province of Sweden. The whole circumstances of the case form, by the way, a singular commentary on Mr. Gladstone's romantic citation of the of Norway and Sweden as ao illustration of the blessings of Home Rule.
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