DENMARK. 
claring Carolina Matilda regent of the kingdom during the 
ae 
minority of her 
ediate or ae 
ing 
queen. She certainly appears to have taken par 
light in the fociety of him, a was the frou of es huf- 
and; yet no intimacy bet them was r proved. a 
ey and Brandt, ae aa had their apie ands cut 
, were beheaded on the 28th of April ier Their bodies 
A treatment fo inhuman refle&ts no {mall 
Englifh minifter, queen Carolina Matilda was ogee ° 
enmark ina Britifh frigate, which conveye 
ver, She enced in the palace of Zell, none fhe died 
shee years afterwards, aged 23 years and 1c months. 
After this. aoe gree revolution, count Guldberg was 
placed at the head of the king’s council, He rendered his 
a ers See ar by the promlgation of a law in favour 
es of Denmark, called the law w of ‘ indigenate,”’ 
eA 
The grand duke Paul — havi 
attained his majorit oe ith Ro 
fumed, and a definitive Gad figned at Garfkoezelo on the 
sete in ‘pofon of the whole of Hol. 
e two counties in fa- 
see ibec k, from whom 
ae 
lefs Sara aap er 
flavery are 
ee eal abolithed by the difinterefted exertions of 
nt Schimmelmann, who was himfelf poffefled of large 
Cates in Danifh Weft-India iflands. Order was re- 
rt) 
8 
n 
ir hagen on the 16th of 
ee arts and since s, the a of juitice e im- 
ouraged, co eed of its former 
ie midit sedes wars S oraaanes by the 
French revolution the reat neutrality was maintained. 
Every folicitation to declare vain, but 
Indiess. a ae fettlement of Tranquebar, on the co 
penants which had been forced to yield to the Britifh: 
“The battle of the zd of April 1801, had’ Ieibin ass the’ 
calm - an eighty years’ peace, and appeared to e com 
mencement of a new erain the naval and military eftablifh. 
me 3 of Denmark, which received’ fo great an acceffion of 
ftrength, that full eS was repofed in the future exer- 
tions of either the army or navy on any emerge ieee Yet’ 
the war between England aad Fence having been-r gui 
in 1803, and France having fucceffively triu faphieds ove 
ay le and Pruffia, _ formed an intimate conneétion a 
a, it was fuppofed: at Denmar a no long su be 
able to jaea Aa united (ie aeons of Ru sep: 
and be d to declare againft England; parila asa: 
conden Ecath and Spaniflr force wa 8 hove ing. 0 a its: 
frontier. 
r that dar f aT 
d 
to compel the fe A kingdom of Den ts wea~ 
pons againft England, that the Gites cous: confidered. 
herfelf juftified in reforting to extraordinary meafures. In- 
the month of Augult, 1807, a te Englith fleet fi 
oS bis ifland of Zealand, 
20,00 Copenhagen was *b m 
Sane ‘ On the feventh of Septeniber. the Englith: 
took poffeffion of the citadel for fix weeks, and all the 
Danifh fhips then at ree an being 18° fail ofthe line, 
15 frigates, fix floops, 25 gun-boats, ‘together with all 
he flores of the naval pee oF Chrifti tanthola, were fure- 
ere to the difpofal of the king of Great: Britain. Ee! 
afperated at this treatment, the crown prince declared wat 
agent England, and: foon after ow Sweden, its only 
He invoked the aid of Fra The Erench mat+ 
flial Bernadotte (prince of Pont cae) iis at: Cope ie 
March, 1808, at the very moment: 
when intelligence was Lite in that sat of the “deatlt 
of Ch _ VIL. a at Rendfbu 
SS 808. The 
On the 22d of March, he prince Chrittian, Danifh m 
of war, ftruck to the Euglith, atter an obftinate: engagements 
in 
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