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APPENDIX. A. 
Denmark; and in the fifths that a republican 
constitution should be introduced, similar to that 
which existed before the country was united to 
Norway in the thirteenth century, but, till this 
could be settled by the representatives of the peo¬ 
ple, allowing by the sixth article, to the existing 
authorities the option of remaining in their re¬ 
spective situations. In the tenth article it is de¬ 
clared that the country shall be put in a state of 
defence: the twelfth annuls all debts due • to 
Danish merchants in the country or abroad, and 
prohibits clandestine payment of them, under pain 
of the individual being compelled again to pay the 
same amount to the new governor: the thirteenth 
provides against the prices of provisions being ex¬ 
orbitant : the fourteenth takes off the half of all 
taxes to be levied upon the inhabitants till the 
1st of July, 1810: by the eighteenth, all com¬ 
munication with Danish ships is forbidden: the 
second third and fourth guarantee personal safety 
and property, and payments of pensions, &c.; 
while the nineteenth extends the same protection 
to Danes who do not intermeddle in the political 
affairs of the island, 
farther inquiry on the part of the bishop into the affair, 
he found that the wife was anxious for a separation from her 
husband, when there remained no obstacle to his wishes of 
entering a second time into the marriage state. 
