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small proportion of rum, tobacco, sugar, and 
coffee, not exceeding ten tons; taking especial 
care not to send out any British manufactured 
goods, and thereby give room for a charge that 
he merely wished to make the island a depository 
for prohibited articles, which might thence be 
afterwards smuggled into the continent. This 
ship was furnished with a letter of marque, but 
still, in order to prove the honorable intentions 
of the merchant, it was expressly stipulated with 
the owner, that the captain, Mr. Jackson, should 
not seize or capture any vessel, either in the ports 
of Iceland or in sight of its coasts; and in case 
that he should in any way violate the agreement, 
the owner should be liable to the forfeiture of 
^8,000. In this ship Mr. Jorgensen himself, 
whose knowledge of the Danish language and ge¬ 
neral acquaintance with affairs of this nature made 
him eminently serviceable, embarked, together 
with Mr. Savigniac, an Englishman employed 
as supercargo; and, setting out in the latter end 
of December, they arrived at Iceland in the be¬ 
ginning of the following month, January, 1809; 
having performed the voyage at a time of the year 
considered so dangerous for such an attempt, that 
Mr. Phelps was unable to find any underwriters 
that would consent to insure the whole of the 
cargo. The idea having occurred to them that 
the government of the island would find less dif- 
