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how ill he had been himself personally used, and 
how contrary to all the laws of nations; adding, 
that Mr. Jorgensen was not only a traitor to his 
own country (Denmark), but equally so to Great 
cuse can be made in the more tranquil time of the imprison- 
ment, for a filthy cabin and an uninterrupted confinement 
of nine weeks. With regard to the count’s general fare, I 
always thought that he was allowed a supply of every ne¬ 
cessary from the Landfogued, Mr. Frydensberg, or from his 
factor, Mr. Simmonsen; and, indeed, I feel almost confident 
of it.-—Yet he says, “ Bent down under the weight of so much 
grief and affliction united, it now became my lot to be 
“ kept confined in a narrow and dirty cabin, and sometimes, 
fC when Captain Liston took it into his head, even shut up 
fr in a small room, or rather closet *, where I was deprived 
“ of the light of the day. Constantly I was obliged to put 
“ up with the sopiety of drunken and noisy mates, and, with 
“ them for my companions, I was reduced to subsist on fare 
“ which even the men complained of as being more than 
“ commonly indifferent 5 in short, I was deprived for the 
<e space of nine weeks of every convenience and comfort of 
“ life to which I had been used, and subjected to all the 
“ sufferings which the oppressor had it in his power to in- 
“ flict. His contempt of decorum and humanity even went 
“ so far as to refuse a request that was made on my behalf 
“ by one of my friends. Bishop Videlin, that 1 might be al- 
* f lowed to take exercise on a small uninhabited island near 
* This circumstance happened only once or twice, when the great 
number of Danes, and the refractory conduct of some of them, called for 
the assistance of many of the crew from the Margaret and Anne : at such 
times it was thought the appearance of the Count upon deck might en¬ 
courage the insurrection. 
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