ICELANDIC REVOLUTION. 
various documents through the kindness of Cap¬ 
tain Jones; as well as with a complete statement* 
of the whole by Count Tramp drawn up with 
the view of being laid before the British govern¬ 
ment, and with a similar, but more extended, 
statement by Mr. Jorgensen^, detailing at full 
length, not only the things that occurred, but 
* This statement was originally accompanied by a con¬ 
siderable number of letters, protests, &c. to which it refers 
in almost every page, but which I have never seen, and I 
may, probably, from this cause, have been led to do less 
justice to the count than would have been the case had I had 
an opportunity of consulting them. It is necessary at the 
same time to remark, that, of the events which took place 
after the imprisonment of the count, lie only speaks from 
these documents, or from information which he received 
verbally from the inhabitants of Reikevig a few days previous 
to his leaving Iceland, and this may account for some pas¬ 
sages which appear to me to be exaggerated, and which, 
had the circumstances been related from the count’s own 
knowledge, would not have crept into his narrative. 
f This gentleman I have already had occasion to mention 
more than once in my journal 3 but, as he has, in what fol¬ 
lows, to appear as the principal actor, it is right to give 
some farther account of him 3 that the transaction may be 
shown in its proper light, and that it may not be thought 
that Mr. Phelps, a subject of Great Britain, has, by taking a 
part in a matter unauthorised by his country, transgressed 
her laws.—Mr. Jorgensen, though born of respectable parents 
at Copenhagen, at an early age entered into the British ser¬ 
vice as an apprentice on board a collier 3 after which, he 
employed himself in such other vessels of various descriptions 
