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the Orion, a brig belonging to Count Tramp, 
provided with a licence from the British govern¬ 
ment, which she had, according to Mr. Jorgensen, 
forfeited, by first carrying her cargo to Norway, 
and there disposing of it, and taking in another * 
for Iceland. Mr. Liston, in pursuance of these 
directions, landed twelve of his crew with arms, 
and, stationing them at the door of the governor’s 
house, entered, together with Mr. Phelps, the 
room in which he was sitting with Mr. Koefoed, 
and made him his prisoner, without any resistance 
on his part: then locking the door of his office, 
to which he allowed the count to affix his own 
seal •f', he conducted him under an armed escort 
on board the Margaret and Anne. The whole of 
this was done without any attempt at conceal¬ 
ment in the most public time of the most public 
day of the week, a Sunday afternoon, after divine 
* A part of this cargo, according to Count Tramp, con¬ 
sisting of goods to the value of six thousand rix-dollars of 
Danish currency, was intended to have been distributed 
gratis among the distressed Icelanders, a circumstance of 
which I am persuaded Mr. Phelps and Mr. Jorgensen were 
ignorant, or they would not have allowed so benevolent a 
design to have been frustrated. 
f This was shortly afterwards broken open, and all the 
papers subjected to examination. 
