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produce, as the license specified, the vessel was 
returned in ballast with stones which our agent 
was obliged to pay for, although the then con¬ 
stituted Danish authorities had granted us a free 
trade, and the warehouses were full of Iceland 
goods. Severe proclamations were also afterwards 
published to obstruct our trade, all of which I 
shall take home.—On finding that the same con¬ 
duct prevailed on my arrival here with another 
cargo on the 21st of June last, and that I must 
again return in ballast, unless I pursued strong 
measures, I ventured to make Count Tramp pri¬ 
soner, partly on this account, and partly on hear¬ 
ing that he had come here under a fictitious name 
and character. Being requested by many of the 
native inhabitants to issue some proclamations, to 
satisfy the minds of the people, and being also 
requested and entreated by them to remove the 
Danes from the island, who had reduced them to 
the greatest state of miser) 7 , I declined interfering, 
or taking any part in the government, and refused 
to hoist the English flag, not knowing that I 
should be correct in so doing, until the will of his 
Majesty’s ministers could be known.—Upon far¬ 
ther applications being sent to me, which ex¬ 
pressed the wishes of the people that Mr. Jor¬ 
gensen would stand forward to protect the island 
and the natives against the Danes, I certainly 
