DENMARK. 
not fubmitted to the jurifdiion of the herretfdinge. 3. The 
oo or byetinge, affifted by a certain number of 
fTeflors 
lerks are called landdingfherer. ‘There are five landdinge 
in ia Denmark, ore for Zealand, at Ringfledt; one for Funen 
and Lengeland, at Odenfee; one for Jutland, at Wyborg; 
"one ae sil and Falfter at Marieboe; and the fifth at 
Born 
The f pees tribunal of a a is the higheft court 
of juftice for all the oe nifh dominions. It fits almoft the 
whole year, and is alw eee th great ceremonies by 
the king himfelf in the Geena of March, on the ancient 
Herredag or Danehoe 
Although the sdauieaton of juftice in the inferior 
anes 
ferior courts of juftice fince the year 1795. See Copen- 
HAGE 
The p olice in Denmark is vigilant and good. A Board 
-of Health (Medicinifche Collegium) watches over the health 
of the people, and has appointed a eg = promot~ 
ing vaccina OPENHAGEN.) moft in- 
erefting inftitution is the Lying-in Holvital, ae all mid- 
wives in the dominions muft have itudied before they 
re allowed to exercife th : 
try they may be, are admitted without being afked any quef- 
tions; they are even allowed to come in mafks, and to con- 
tinue mafked all the time they are there. The beft accom- 
modations coft fifteen dollars per week. There are other 
apartments for twelve and eight dollars, that is about a 
guinea anda half. This interefting afylum is faid to have 
produced a vifible diminution in the Leal of infanticides, 
which the mild laws of Denmark rarely punifh with death. 
A Board of Alms (Pflege Anitalts Cle a) feed: 
the maintenance of the poor, who are fupported entirely 
by private charity. No gars are feen on the road or i 
the ftreets mber of charitable foundations in Den 
‘veral richly endowed ladies’ convents, which afford an excel- 
‘lent education to the dauzhters of poor noblemen, and in 
which they find a comfortable afylum until they are mar- 
. Toe prifons are ee in the ftate recommended by 
the immortal Howard. Sce CopENHAGEN, 
The revenues of the crown in Denmark arife chiefly, 
. I. From the demefnes and the quit-rents paid for thofe 
that have been fold. 
2. From the Sound dues. See Evsineur 
3. From cuftom-hovfe dues on exports and imports. 
4. From the mines, mint, poft, and 
- §. From the land-tax, which varies in the differ 
vinces, and is paid either for the fuppofed produce of the 
ground, or for the number of ploughs, as in Slefwick and 
ent pro- . 
Holftein, where each plough pays §/. 12s. fterling annually, 
The duty paid by the faw-mills in Norway, is confidere 
as a branch of this tax. Every faw-mill pays 6/. fterling 
annually, 
n the excife dues on wine, fpirits, beer, mait,, cat 
d feveral articles of food. It alfo i 
tax comes grae- 
All the fubje&ts 
enmark are claffed in nine diiferent claffes. 
ur fhillin gs. 
The firft pays annually 16/. fterling ; the fecond 14/. ; 
the third 8/.; the a a the fifth 3/ 45.5 theefixth 3/5 
the feventh 2/, 8s. ; = ht t/. 125.3 the ninth 1/. 4s. 
: nually, or above, pay ten per cent. ¥ 
fr une eight; from 60 to Ris ey 
from Se to ee as rom 40 to 50s (ak 3 from 30 
Widows pay "half of ce evi 
and penfion n-t 
8. From i poll-tax i in Denmark Proper 
g. From the profits which the royal lotteries, eftablithed: 
at Copenhagen and Altona, leave to the crown. They are 
expofed to great variations. During pine years, Vit. 
from 1773 to 1787, the gain of the crown amounted to 
820 423/. fterling ; but from 1787 to 1791, the public re- 
gal ned 403,672 fterling, leaving a balance i. oo 
ee for the {pace of eighteen years. ‘The average pro- 
duce of this gambling impoft cannot, therefore, be valued 
at more = 20, pian tterling, annua 
impotts levied in ae Danith Weft India. 
lands, which sed to leave an annual clear revenue-of about 
30,000). 
n eal rag See extraordinary contributions 
are levied. Thus, sth of January 1807, an additional 
tax of 1/. 45. was raid my every plough, for defraying the 
expences attending the oe and quartering of the 
ai in Slefwick and Holftei 
exact Sou : the ike annual revenue of Den- 
ee is ene own. may, however, be eftimated at eight 
millions of dollars, or I, aey ooo/. fterling. In 1784, Mr. 
Coxe rated it at 14400,000/., but he acknowledges, in a note 
to the fifth Ae that it has fince been increafed. Fro 
1785 to 1787, Mr. Toze fuppofes it to have been 7,270,172 
dollars or 1,440,000/. Profcflor Norman of Roftock, efti- 
mated it in 1803, at 7,800,000 dollars, or 1,560, eS fter- 
ling. The expenditure, which in former times frequently 
exceeded the saat had not only been made to balance 
of late years; but there e fum ap- 
propriated as a finking fund for 
debt, which had been reduced FA little 
. The perilous fituation in which 
ark has been pecenily placed, has caufed an iffue of 
exchequer bills, which it will be neceffary to fund, and: 
which will no doubt raife the national debt again to ‘what. 
it was in thé year 1790, namely, four millions fterling. 
The military force of Denmark is partly mercenary, and: 
partly a national militia. The former is on a regular eftae. 
blifhment, ard continues in atual fervice all the year rounds. 
It is made up of foreign recruits, who coft the crown very 
large fums, but whofe number is not very great, and of na- 
tional recruits, who enlilt for a bounty. 
The Danifh army is properly conte of two diftin& 
corps, the Danifh a ia wegian troops, differing very. 
much in their conttitut 
In Denmark each parith (lage) | ee one foot foldier: 
or cantonitt, ives com uring the four 
weeks of exercife, an annual aire qonbewon of a. naa 
ing» 
