DEN 
Eng, and four-pence for each Danifh mile he has to travel 
to and from his regiment. Men above 36 years of age are 
free from the confcription. The hortes i ae cavalry 
are furnifhed by the Jand-owners, and areal nae > 
the cantonifts, and i y them for ann 
tification from the treafury. They may ee ioe for 
their own perfonal ferviee, ‘but they muft always keep them 
in good conditio 
In Norway a oe er diftridt, furnifhing a mar, confifts 
of two complete farms, and the ‘who le army 1s compofed of 
cantonifts, without any regular troops. The time of fer 
vice is fixed at nine years, at the end of which they are ob- 
in cafe of need, to ferve fix years in garrifon towns 
ae ba are found and kept b 
Jand-owners, who m mploy them u 
‘The annual exercifes vial eal; twelve day he cantonifts 
are oie hy companies, and every eae year oy by 
battalio 
Th Danith regular i ng every third 
year, the national cantonifts a every arr year. 
ay of acommon feldier is 3d. a day, that of a horfeman 
3d. with bread. Invatids are provided for in feven ar rifon 
companies, and in the hofpital at Eckernforde eisa 
{chool for one hundred cadets for the land fervice eftablithed 
at Copenhagen. 
vernment, an y on paying for their board. T 
two cther te of the e kine, ore at Chriftiania in 
orway, and the othe Rendfburg in Holftein. I 
w r I 
17995 OO ie ee were inftituted at Copenhagen for 
the inftru€tion of non-commiffioned officers. 
The whole. Danifh army confilts of 74,791 men, and colts 
annually 393,000. fterling. 
On the roth of January 1801, a new national militia was 
organized by the name of Landvaern. It was to confi 
thofe men, who, having aiuive aed 36th year, are aif. 
miffed from the army, and t to ferve ma! on 
emergencies, without bein a incorporated if a arm 
ered was to be limited to the age 
of nea ch wer 
oe 
piments 
cei eisai a in 
1801, when the Englifh threatened the coat ; and 
ne 
capable of ae arms. 
The Danifh fortreffes are, Copenhagen, Cronenburg, Cor- 
foer, ‘Nye org, Fredericia, and Fladftrand in Denmark, 
Rendfburg and Gluckfladt in Holftein, Frederickthald, Ag- 
gerhuus near Chriftiania, Frederick{weern i in Norway, and 
and has under it three different departments for the cavalry, 
ar vie ‘a the the fortreffes. 
ing to the official Danifh gazette of the 15th 
Groen: 1803, the Danifh navy confifted at that time of 19 
fhips of the line, 15 frigates, 8 aes and 13 gun-boate. 
‘On the 1ft of January 1807, the number of officers in the 
aigke meat was 2 admirals, 2 vice admirals, 3 rear admirals, 
toc tains, 25 oF 30 
d lieu- 
Denmark, which are at this ciomen difturbed by ae war. 
With regard to the national chara@er of the Dane, they 
ve always been jultly confidered as a brave, generous, and 
grateful people, hofpitable and enlightened, attached to 
DEN 
their country, but rather flow, addiGed to ae inter« 
perate in their food, litigious, and of an ee and revenge 
ful difpofition. Coxe’s Travels, vol. v. oe 8 
Statiftik der Daenifchen Monarchie, 1796. y. P, Catteau. 
C. G. Kuttrer’s Travels 
Nord Litéraire, aud 
Tableau des Etats Danois, 1802. 
through Denmark in 1798 and 1799. 
Archives du Nord. ‘ 
DE N,. a town of oo in 7 “country of Yemen; 
40 miles E. of Zebid. N. lat. 1 E. Jong. 42° 43%. 
o. HOUT, a town of Flosdere; 5 ae S. of 
ee agis. Joun, in Bingraphy , was the fon of a fadler, 
and born in London in the year 1657. He received his gram- 
mar learning at Harrow fehool, ‘and from thence he was 
itt e he Seasinee 
and then made the 
ia his ae he made himfel€ 
known asa dade and dramat writer 3; but neither in thefe 
As a cr 
: that ae rater procured 
for him the appellation .of ‘ Dennis the Critic ;” and his 
want of temper involved him in perpetual difputes a 
he is belt known; his alee ree in 
the principal writers of the day. Addifon and Pope did 
not efcape his lafh ; the latter retorted upon him with equal 
everl lofe . ife Dennis was much 
olitician, he had ever 
in the 
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e of every t — poverty was added the af- 
was acted ] the Hay-mare 
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ennis, longer, perhaps, than would be 
thought nectar, by readersin general. Of this, theexcellent 
writer, Dr. 
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Hace authors, than to thofe one Tee 2 the higheft 
ENNIS, in Geography, a poft ee i FA erica, in the fas 
. Maffachuletts, a county of aa incorporated into 
townfhip in 1793 ; it is 80 miles S.E.. from Bofton, and : 
fon Pants aple, and contains 1408 aiebians. This tow. 
Sia gar the villa ages of Nobfcuffet, of 52 houfes, and 
Suet of 36 houfes 
Dennis Creek, | an American Pace in Cape May county, 
N. Jerfey; 219 miles from Wathin 
fesse i ATION, from denmine of de and nomen, a 
ofed on any thing ufually eeoreiien said 
easly proto ainent therein 
“ence, 
