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from the first day put under guards and the goods 
confiscated, and persons were sent to the distant 
towns to execute the same errand. 
Mr. Jorgensen, having now fixed himself in 
the possession of supreme power, with the title 
of His Excellency, the Protector of Iceland, Com¬ 
mander in Chief by Sea and Land, posted up, on 
the 11th of July, another proclamation*, in 
which it was declared in the first article, cc We 
“ Jorgen Jorgensen have taken upon ourselves 
ce . the government of the country until a regular 
u constitution can be established, with power to 
u make war and conclude peace with foreign po- 
“ tentatesin the second it is stated that the 
soldiery (consisting as just mentioned of eight 
natives) had chosen him to be their leader, and 
to conduct the whole military department: by 
the third article a new flag is appointed for Ice¬ 
land, the honor of which Mr. Jorgensen promises 
to defend with his life and blood: the fourth 
abolishes the ancient seal of the country and de¬ 
termines that his own private one is to be used 
until the representatives of the people shall have 
fixed upon a new one: in the fifth the time 
granted to the civil officers for declaring their 
* See Appendix B., No. 5. 
