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APPENDIX. A. 
On arriving in London, Count Tramp gladly 
embraced the opportunity which presented itself 
of submitting to the under-secretary of state a 
full detail of all the events that had taken place 
in Iceland connected with the late revolution, 
and a petition for the redress of such injuries as 
were therein stated to have been received bv Da- 
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nish merchants or by the Danish government; for 
it must be remembered that not a single Icelander 
was injured either in person or property. 
What reception these representations met with 
from our government I have never been able to 
them come forward in an open fair and candid man- 
ner.—Let me see my accusers face to face, and how easily 
t( shall I confront them !—but this they dread, for truth must 
<e prevail. Where, in the name of God, is there any man in 
Iceland who can make a just complaint ? Is any man iri- 
“ jured in property or liberty ? Is there any innocent blood 
<e crying vengeance against me? If I have shed that of a 
fellow creature either in a just or unjust manner, let my 
“ head pay for it ! If 1 have gained only one shilling at the 
ee public expence, let my right hand suffer for it! If I have 
enriched myself to the detriment of any one individual, 
let my left hand be cut off! If I have caused any one 
“ single person or more to be confined for being opposite in 
“ principles to me, let me feel the horrors of perpetual 
f ' imprisonment myself ! But if I have done none of these, 
let me enjoy that liberty which I look upon as the only 
“ true good on earth. The British government has a power 
“ to crush ) it has also a power to be merciful.” 
