ICELANDIC REVOLUTION. 
Orebackj belonging to a merchant of the name 
of Lambertsen*, taking with him a number of 
horses loaded with goods, consisting chiefly of 
tobacco and coffee with other articles of luxury, 
* Of this affair, which is by Count Tramp regarded as a 
case of peculiar hardship, I have just received from Mr. Jor¬ 
gensen the following explanation: Mr. Lambertsen is owner 
of a vessel accustomed to trade between Iceland and Norway, 
for which purpose, early in the year 1808, he procured from 
the British government a license, empowering him to convey 
to Iceland a cargo of provisions. Of this circumstance he had 
apprised his factor Sivertsen, who, after waiting till August, 
1809, in expectation of the arrival of his principal, con¬ 
cluded that he must either be lost, or that he had taken ad¬ 
vantage of his license to carry on an illicit trade, as is often 
done between the different parts of Denmark, and that he 
would at all events not appear till the following year. The 
inhabitants of Oreback being therefore greatly distressed, as 
two years had now elapsed since any ship had come to them 
with provisions, and Mr. Lambertsen’s own stock of goods, 
which had been lying all that time in his storehouses, begin¬ 
ning to be injured by keeping, Mr. Sivertsen wrote to Mr. 
Jorgensen different petitions, begging him to use his interest 
with Mr. Phelps to supply Oreback over land with things of 
absolute necessity to which, after some delay, that gentle¬ 
man assented, and an agreement was drawn up and signed 
by both parties, stipulating that a return should be made for 
goods so sent from Mr. Lambertsen’s storehouses. Mr. Si¬ 
vertsen, in consequence of this, gave an order to Mr. Petreus, 
Mr. Phelps’ agent, for different articles, such as tobacco, 
coffee, sugar, cloth, &c .; the whole of which was accord¬ 
ingly sent on thirty-five horses, which returned laden 
with Icelandic produce] the expence of conveyance both 
