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ports, and the knout. Everything showed us that 

 this brute of a tyrant and tyrant of brutes wishes to 

 keep his savage empire in a state of closeness and 

 insularity as inaccessible as that of China. 



Oct. 1. -After sleeping comfortably on English 

 beds, we had coffee in our rooms, and went out to 

 HowdenX whose civilities in procuring us letters to 

 Copenhagen, and letting us draw for fifty pounds, 

 and introducing us to Fenwick, the English consul, 

 a gentlemanly and obliging young man, pleased us 

 much. We found all the merchants croaking over 

 the hardness of the times the failures in Hamburg 

 the impossibility of selling their bills sugars sell- 

 ing with difficulty at sixty per cent under prime 

 cost, and the other consequences of the Dutch expedi- 

 tion. Mr Howden had to lament 700 worth of 

 bills lying dead at Hamburg, besides being obliged 

 to pay specie to Government from clearances. 



After giving orders to a Scotch tailor, we set off at 

 twelve for Copenhagen in a stulil wagen, or oblong 

 cart, with a couple of seats across, on springs, and 

 one for the driver in front. The horses are lar^e 



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and strong : two easily drew us and our lu^o-a^e all 



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the way. The road is indeed excellent well raised, 

 even, and smooth. We also took with us for half 

 the way a ship's captain, at Howden's recommenda- 

 tion ; and for the rest of it, a younij man, who be^o'ed 



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our permission. The day was damp, and rainy at 

 intervals. The face of the country is delightful 

 disposed in ridges and flats, with clumps of fine trees, 



