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But Eve was 1 - ve ; 
This far his over-match, who, leif-decei’v’d 
And rufii, beforehand had no better weigh’d 
The ftrcngth he was to cope with, or his own. Milton. 
Gn every plain, 
Hoft cop'd with hoft, dire was the din of war. Philips. 
To encounter: to interchange kindnefs or fentiments : 
Thou art e’en as juft a man, 
As e’er my converfation cop'd withal. Shakejpeare. 
To COPE, v. a. To embrace. Not in vfe. 
I will make him tell the tale anew ; 
Where, how, how oft, how long ago, and when, 
He hath, and is again to cope your wife. Shakejpeare. 
COPE,/. An ancient cuftom or tribute due to the 
king, or lord of tire foil, out of tire lead-mines in fome 
part of Derbyfliire ; of which Manlove faith : 
Egrefs and regrefs to the king’s highway, 
The miners have ; and lot and cope they pay : 
The thirteenth uifli of ore within their mine. 
To the lord, for lot, they pay at meafuring time: 
Sixpence a load for cope the lord demands, 
And that is paid to the burghmafter’s hands. 
COPE-MAN,/ [from cope , old Engliflr, to exchange, 
Ray. ] A chapman : 
He would have fold his part of paradife 
For ready money, had he met a cope-man. B. Jonfon. 
COPENHA'GEN, a large and populous city, the ca¬ 
pital of Denmark, lituated on the eaftern coaft of the 
illand of Zealand, on a bay of the Baltic, near the Sound, 
built on a morafs, and furrounded with feveral fmali 
lakes; yet the air is not unwholefome. Its Daniflr 
name is Kiobenhayn, i. e. Merchant’s-haven. It was only 
a village till the year 1254, when it became a town. In 
1443, ^ was erected into a bifliop’s fee, and made the re- 
lidence of the king ; but fuffered to enjoy its own muni¬ 
cipal laws. A fire, in 1728, in twenty-four hours, con- 
iumed 1650 houfes, five churches, the univerlity, and 
four colleges. Another fire, in the month of February, 
1794, deftroyed the royal palace ; and a ftill more dread¬ 
ful conflagration, in June, 1795, confumed above one- 
third of the old town. Copenhagen is accounted the 
beft built city of the north ; the ftreets are well paved, 
with a foot-way on each fide. The greateft part of the 
buildings are of brick, and a few of free-ftone ; the 
houfes of the nobility are in general fplcndid, and built 
in the Italian ftile. The harbour is always crowded 
with fhips, and the ftreets are interfered by broad ca¬ 
nals, which bring the merchandize clofe to the ware- 
houles on the quays. Copenhagen contains about 4000 
houfes, fourroyal palaces, nineteen churches, and a great 
number of public buildings, eleven public places, or 
markets, and one hundred and eighty-fix ftreets, almoft 
ail broad, and in a ftraight line. The palace, which was 
burnt down in 1794, v'as an immenfe pile of building, 
of hewn ftone, the wings and ftables of brick, ftuccoed : 
this palace was called Chrijlianjhurg, being built by 
Chriftian VI. at his own expence, without laying any 
tax on his fubjects. The hofpital of Warlow is large 
and convenient, containing three hundred and thirty 
beds,' occupied by as many poor : the church is fo placed 
that fervice may be heard by thole who are confined to 
their bed. The" lioule of orphans fupports fixty boys 
and forty girls. The public library is well filled ; at 
the top is a tower, defigned for aftronomical obfervations. 
The exchange is a large Gothic building ; vellels are 
brought very near it by means of canals : here the mer¬ 
chants alfemble ; and here are magazines of cloth, lilk 
fluffs manufactured in the town, and other merchandize. 
T his city owes its prefent beauty to the fire of 1728, 
having been rebuilt in a modern ftile. The new part of 
the town, railed by the late king, Frederic V. is extremely 
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beautiful: it confifts of an oCtagon, containing four uni¬ 
form and elegant buildings of hewn ftone, and of four 
broad ftreets leading to it, in oppofite directions. In 
the middle of the area ftands an equeftrian ftatue of Fre¬ 
deric V. in bronze, as large as life, which is juftly ad¬ 
mired. It was caft at the expence of the D.tnifh Ealt 
India company, by Saly, and coft 8o,oool. fterling. 
Leaving the exchange, and the royal bank, on the right, 
we go over a draw-bridge, where fliips of burden pals 
and repafs, and enter Chriftianfhaven ; this, with Chrift- 
ianfliolm, may be called the fuburbs of Copenhagen, 
from which they are completely feparated by the ftrait 
of Kalleboe. Chriftianfholm contains the naval arfe- 
nals, docks, &c. where the fhipw-rights and other work¬ 
men, to the number of three or four thoufand, are con- 
ftantly employed in repairing and building merchant- 
veffels and men of war. Thefe grand works of human 
art and labour furpafs all praife, and mult be feen to be 
fairly appreciated : they fhew what a government, whofe 
means are comparatively fmali, can effect, when con- 
duffed with wifdom and energy. But though Copen¬ 
hagen polleftes great commercial advantages, yet it is 
not, and it may perhaps be fafely predicted that it never 
will be, a great commercial city. The reafon is ob¬ 
vious, the Danes neither here nor elfewhere have I'ejprit 
de commerce. From Chriftianfhaven we crofs by a bridge 
to the ifiand of Amak. This ifland may be properly 
called the dairy and kitchen-garden of Copenhagen. 
1 he little that is worth feeing in this city is not cal¬ 
culated to excite much intereft in the intelligent travel¬ 
ler, except the royal mufeum, which contains fome great 
curiolities, particularly a fuperb collection of coins. 
In the old town is the famous round tower, defigned by 
the aftronomer Longomontanus ; it is about one hundred 
and eighty feet in height, and the infide is fo contrived, 
as to admit a carriage and four horfes to be drove to the 
top, where is the obfervatory, from which we have a 
good view of the city beneath, with the fliips in the har¬ 
bour and roads, and the horizon bounded by the fea. 
The univerfity has funds for the fupport of three hun¬ 
dred and thirty ftudents, and profefl'ors of the fcier.ces of 
theology, altronomy, mathematics, medicine, &c. The 
inhabitants of Copenhagen, including the l'uburbs, may 
be eftimated at 95,000. The circumference of the city 
is about one mile and a quarter Danifh, or rather more 
than five miles Englifti. The police is extremely good; 
it is very feldom that a robbery is heard of, and capital 
punifhments are very rare. This may be attributed to 
the excellent perfpicuity of the laws, and the wifdom, 
firmnefs, and moderation, of the government; which 
leems, on all occaliens, to recognize the firft principle 
of criminal juriiprudence—that to prevent is better 
than to punifh. 
The court of Copenhagen is not fplendid, but quite 
enough fo for every uleful purpofe ; this is what the 
government, which is praifeworthily economical, appears 
to have always in view. The prelent king of Denmark, 
Chriftian VII. is, in the molt unqualified fenfe of the 
word, a cipher. This appears to be the effeCt of com¬ 
plete imbecility both of body and mind, and his exiftence 
appears as if it were prolonged only to prefent to man¬ 
kind a melancholy inftance of the eft'eCts of indulgence 
in premature habits of debauchery. The crown-prince, 
or heir-apparent, is prince-regent of Denmark. Hisper- 
fonal character is very amiable. As a ftatefman lie pof- 
feflfes great and extenfive benevolence, magnanimity, 
coolnel's, prudence, induftry, and penetration. His be¬ 
nevolence does the higheft honour to his feelings as a 
man, and is well .exemplified by his indefatigable ex¬ 
ertions to provide for and comfort the poor lufferers who 
had loft the whole of their property in the dreadful fire 
of 1795, before alluded to. Indeed, the crown-pvincc 
of Denmark is every tiling that could be expeCted from 
the pupil of Bernftorff. See vol. ii.p. 918. 
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