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commenced the exercise of his power by issuing 
a proclamation *, which in the first article de¬ 
clares., that all Danish authority is dissolved in 
Iceland : in the fourth that arms and ammunition 
of all kinds are to be given up; in the sixth that 
the keys of private warehouses and shops, money, 
accounts and papers, belonging to, or concern¬ 
ing, the interests of the king of Denmark or 
Danish merchants, shall, likewise, be delivered^; 
in the second third and fifth articles, it orders 
* The extracts from this as well as the two following pro¬ 
clamations published by Mr. Jorgensen I have thought it 
best to insert almost verbatim from Count Tramp’s state¬ 
ment of them, with many of his comments, that I might be 
the less liable to be accused of partiality; but I have printed 
literal translations of the originals in the Appendix B. (see 
Nos. 1, 2, and 5). Nos. 3 and 4 are copies of other procla¬ 
mations of less importance, and not noticed by Count Tramp. 
f This was preparatory to the confiscation of all Danish 
property in the island ; upon which subject I must beg leave 
to make use of Mr. Jorgensen’s own words. “ This,” he 
observes, was absolutely necessary, for, if such property 
had been permitted to have been taken away, the country 
would have been extremely impoverished, since all goods, 
“ property, and merchandise on the island belonged to the 
f( Danes, as well all that lay in the storehouses, as even what 
te the poor peasant had in the field ; for the lower classes 
“ were generally deeply in debt to the Danish factors. It 
was likewise just and proper to detain all such property, 
<( whether public or private; for Iceland had certain funds 
in Copenhagen, for which it might be considered a sort 
