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a declaration, or adopted measures 

 relative to this object, at which 

 Great Britain might take offence or 

 umbrage, cannot, without ulterior 

 explanation, reply to this point of 

 Mr. Drummond's note. Much less 

 does he conceive in what respect the 

 engagement taken by the previous 

 convention of the 29th of August 

 last, can be considered as contraiy 

 to those which Denmark is about to 

 enter into with the neutral and 

 united powers of the north : and in 

 all cases in which he shall find him- 

 self called upon to combat or re- 

 move the doubts that shall have 

 been conceived with respect to the 

 good faith of the king, he shall con- 

 sider his task to be very easy, as long 

 as this good faith shall be intro- 

 duced into the reproaches or the 

 suspicions advanced against his ma- 

 jesty. He flatters himself that the 

 English government, after having 

 received the required explanations, 

 will have the frankness to allow, 

 that the provisional and momentary 

 abandonment, not of a principle, 

 the question with respect to which 

 remained undecided, but of a mea- 

 sure, whose right has never been, 

 nor ever can be contested, cannot 

 be found at all in opposition to the 

 general and permanent principles, 

 relative to which the powers of the 

 north are upon the point of esta- 

 blishing a co-operation, which, so far 

 from being calculated to compro- 

 mise their neutrality, is destined 

 only to strengthen it. The under- 

 signed wouldfain believe, that these 

 explanations will appear satisfactory 

 to the court of London ; and that 

 the latter will do justice to the in- 

 tentions and sentiments of the king, 

 and particularly to his majesty's in- 

 variable desire to maintain and ce- 

 ment, by all themeansin his power. 



the friendship and good understand- 

 ing which subsist between Denmark 

 and Great Britain. He has the ho- 

 nour to offer to Mr. Drummondthe 

 assurance of his most distinguished 

 consideration. 



(Signed) BernstorfF. 



Copenhagen, Dec. 31, ISOO. 



Convention for the Re-estahlishmcnt 

 of an armed Neutraliiy, between 

 his Majesty the King of Sweden, 

 on the one Part, and his Majesty 

 the Emperor of all the Russias, 

 on the other Part, concluded and 

 signed at St. Petersburgh, the Mh 

 (\5th of December), 1800, «c- 

 cepted and ratified bij his Sivedisk 

 Majesty on the 20th December, 

 and by his Imperial Majesty of 

 all the Russias on the 8th fldtk 

 December J in the same Year. 



In the name of the Most Holy 

 and Undivided Trinity, 



IN order that the freedom of na- 

 vigation, and the security of the 

 merchandize of the neutral powers, 

 may be established, and the princi- 

 ples of the laws of nations be fully 

 ascertained, during the continuance 

 of the present maritime war, his 

 majesty the king of Sweden and his 

 majesty the emperor of all the 

 Russias, actuated by their love of 

 justice, and by a reciprocal desire 

 to promote whatever may be for the 

 public advantage of their respective 

 states, have to that effect determined 

 to give a new sanction to those prin- 

 ciples of their neutrality, which are 

 in their nature indissoluble, and re- 

 quire that it may be respected by 

 all the powers interested in their 

 preservation. With this view their 



