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every necessary from the public stores* till an opportunity 
“ offered for them to be sent to Denmark. Moreover* though 
" it was publicly proclaimed* that any one* who should dis- 
“ turb the public tranquillity and not deliver up their arms* 
“ should be severely punished* the people so offending were 
“ only slightly reprimanded. John Bergman* with a drawn 
cutlass, ran about Reikevig* threatening destruction to us 
all* for which he was only confined for two hours. Mr. 
“ Finboge* who had concealed two thousand six hundred rix- 
“ dollars* belonging to Adzer Knutzen* received no manner 
of chastisement. Sigurd Thorgrimsen suffered no punish- 
“ ment for propagating reports about the country that the 
strefets of Reikevig were stained with the blood of Danes 
and Icelanders. Assessor Einersen was arrested and con- 
“ fined for a few days, upon the information of the Tatsroed 
“ Stephensen* that he was at the head of a conspiracy raised 
rf to attack the English.—So much for my cruelty and 
severity.” 
N° 6. 
COPY OF A LETTER FROM CAPTAIN JONES 
TO MR. PHELPS. 
His Majesty's Sloop Talbot, Reikevig Bay, 
August 19th, 1809. 
Sir,, 
The conversation I had with you respecting 
your transactions on this island was not with 
any intention of interfering, or depriving you 
of any power granted by government: but, in 
