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APPENDIX. A. 
An event as unforeseen as it was unfavorable to 
the present state of political and commercial af¬ 
fairs happened in the arrival at Havnfiord of the 
Talbot sloop of war, commanded by the Honor¬ 
able Alexander Jones, to whom the factors of the 
Danish merchants resident in that place lost no 
time in submitting such a partial and exaggerated 
statement of all that had taken place, as might 
be expected from men whose passions and whose 
interests were so materially involved. Captain 
Jones, therefore, for the purpose of becoming 
better informed upon this subject, sailed round 
without delay to Reikevig bay, where, among the 
first objects he saw, was the dark blue flag, with 
three white stockfish on the upper quarter, wav¬ 
ing upon one of the warehouses in the town. 
Immediately upon his arrival, Count Tramp, a 
prisoner # in the Margaret and Anne, in which 
he had been confined ever since his capture, so¬ 
licited an interview with him, when he stated 
* There appears to me to be no just reason for the severe 
treatment which Count Tramp states that he received during 
his imprisonment in the Margaret and Anne. A love of truth 
and a desire to make the present narrative an impartial one, 
urges me to the insertion of the Count’s own relation of these 
circumstances. Perhaps an apology for indignities offered at 
the period of the seizure of his person may be found in the 
hurried manner in which it was done, and the inflamed state 
of the minds of the persons concerned in it, in consequence 
®f the suspected ill conduct of the governor 3 but no such ex- 
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