APPENDIX. A. 
316 
The governor, Count Tramp, who had been ab¬ 
sent at Copenhagen during these transactions, was 
apprised of them on his return to Iceland on the 
6th of June, 1809, and he observes, upon the 
subject in his .statement, that “ mortified as he 
“ felt at a convention of this kind, concluded with 
“ an armament unauthorised to enforce it; yet, 
66 nevertheless, acknowledging the sacred ness of 
“ contracts, he had no idea of curtailing in any 
“ respect the rights thereby granted to British sub- 
“ jects, though Mr. Savigniac himself, by acting 
“ contrary to the convention, had long since given 
“ him sufficient cause to have dissolved it.”—In 
the early part of the same month, Captain Nott, 
of his majesty’s sloop of war the Rover, arrived in 
the country, and an opportunity was thus offered 
to Count Tramp, as well to prove the sincerity 
of his intentions, as to render the most essential 
service possible to Iceland, by fixing all matters 
in dispute upon a permanent basis with an officer 
whom he looked upon as no less qualified to enter 
into an agreement than able to enforce the ob¬ 
servance of it # . 
* The feelings of the governor I cannot express better than 
in his own words, “ I must beg leave to remark that, from 
the existing warlike relations, I did not view with in- 
f f difference the arrival of an armed force belonging to his 
“ British Majesty, with the objects of which in these parts I 
was unacquainted, and the peaceable proceedings of which 
