ICELANDIC REVOLUTION. 3^9 
tions and the sincerity of the count, or the cor- 
rectness of his statements, still, admitting them 
to be strictly true, some strange neglect had cer¬ 
tainly taken place; for the convention had not 
been printed at the period of our arrival, though 
five days had elapsed from its signature, the half 
of which would have been sufficient for the pur¬ 
pose, even supposing it to have been sent by 
land ; and, what is of most consequence, but 
is omitted in his narrative, a proclamation had 
work in one or two places in my journal, without any 
reference to the political matters with which it is inter- 
spersed. 
“ TO THE GOOD INHABITANTS OF ICELAND.” 
Dear Countrymen ! 
Odin’s Goddesses, Belionse, afflict our northern coun- 
<( tries. They have at last shot their murderous and fiery 
tc arrows into our king’s residence, in a manner equally 
“ treacherous and shameful. They have, under the mask 
of hypocrisy, stolen into his country, to rob him of his 
“ fleet, and to plunder his kingdom, which was of all in 
Europe the most happy, owing to nearly an hundred years’ 
ff peace. They have captured a number of Danish, Nor- 
“ wegian, and Icelandic merchant-ships. With violence and 
“ treachery have they provoked the well-merited hatred of 
our nation, and roused us to arms, in defence of our king, 
“ our country, and our liberty. They have surrounded our 
“ coasts with ships of war, to destroy our commerce, and 
“ to prevent all importation of the most common necessaries 
te into our countries, thereby to the utmost of their power 
(t causing misery and the loss of lives.” 
