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The Efterretninger om inden-og-udenlandfk 
Handel (intelligence ‘relative to foreign 
and domeftic trade), weekly on two half 
fheets oftavo, refemble in tafte and fpi- 
rit the Hamburg Addre/s-Comtoir-Nachrich- - 
ten; this paper is abundantly ‘fupplied 
with official information from the Royal 
Board of Trade. Of all important occur- 
 rences relative to the internal government 
of the country, the Danes are every week 
informed in the Collegial Tidende, printed 
in quarto. Two councillors of the royal 
chancery, Knudfen and Mourad; began this 
newfpaper in the autumn of 1797, by de- 
fire of the government; and are aided in 
their undertaking by commuasications from 
the different public offices An eventng- 
p2per, calculated for the lefs cultivated 
claffes of fociety, appears four times a 
week, pfinted on a half fheet, quarto: 
the contents are chiefly of a moral tenden- 
cy. From 1772 
by the lottery-revifor, Balling, and fince 
1795, by a literary gentleman, whofe 
name is fens Kragh Hoff.—The Kieben- 
bawns Addreffe-ContoirsEfierretuimger com- 
prehends all internal affairs, regulations, 
edicts, proclamations, advertilements, fta- 
tiftical, and commercial intelligence, and 
the public debates, which thefe few years 
pat have become pretty fafhionable in Co- 
penhagen. This paper has, fince its com- 
-mencement in the year 1759, gradually 
been improved, .and brought nearer to 
perfeftion; but, then, to fill the five 
quarto. fheets that are publifhed every 
week, it often requires heterogeneous ma- 
terials furnifhed by minor-poets and bel/s- 
efprits, who, however, pay for the infer- 
tion of their productions. In Copenhagen, 
then, there appear daily, two (and three 
times a week, even three) newfpapers: 
more than we find in feveral cities con- 
taining an equal number of inhabitants, 
as, for inftance, Naples and Torin. ee: is 
true, no neighbeuring competition ts. to 
be dreaded; fcr, in the whole of the 
ifland of Seeland, in Laaland and Falfer, 
no other newfpapers are publifhed. 
In thé ifland of Fane is printed Fy- 
ens Stifts Efterretninger 5 of which there 
appear weekly two half, ana frequently 
whole, fheetsin quarto, befides appendixes.» 
This journal is publifed in the ancient and 
populous city, Odewze,. difiant eighteen 
German miles from Copenhagen, on the 
way to Hamburg, and 1s dilligently com- 
piled from all the printed papers ; it con- 
jequently gives fummary views of affairs, 
and is made up of motely materials; it is, 
however, richer than the others in.domef- 
tic intelligense; and therefore the moft ens 
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Political Fournals in the Dominions of Denmark. 
to 1795, it was edited © 
[May 1, 
‘tertaining of all the Danith new{paperse 
We find in it, likewife, reports of all the 
decifions of the fupreme court of juftice. 
By an anonymous traveller, we are told 
that the editors name is Iverfen, who has 
received a royal privilege for it; and that 
the price for one year amounts to two 
rix dollars. - ; 
The peninfula Futland has three pro- 
vincral papers ; but thele are chiefly fliled 
with judicial proceedings, edicts, adver- 
tifements, and effays. Nor in any of the ‘ 
thirteen towns of the adjoining duchy of 
Schlefwig, do we meet with a political 
journal. : ; 
The. kingdom ef Norway, with the 
iflands of Faroer and Greenland, has ne 
political journal, properly fo called; but 
five other provincial advertifers, enriched 
with commercial intelligence, and rarely” 
with eflays on fubjeéts of public utility. 
Two of thefe papers are publifhed in 
Chriftiana, the capital: the other three 
iffue from the printing-prefles of Bergen, 
Chriftianfand, and Derontheim: they are 
all written in the Norwegian . diale&t— 
Only one of the five comprehends in its 
title the whole kingdom ; viz. the Nor/te 
Intelligenzbeller, im Guarto, in-which, like- 
wife, {mail literary and entertaining pieces 
fometimes occur. 
On Hecla, and on the rocks of the fixty- 
fixth degree of north latitude, political 
literature is not fo barren as might be 
expected from the foiland climate. The 
inhabitant of the cold regions of Iceland 
has indeed ever had a warm heart for lite- 
rature. In the printing-office at Hoolus, 
eftablifthed 268 years ago, a monthly In- 
telligencer is printed, which bears the 
name of the Icelandic, Newfpaper—I/lenz- 
ka Tidningar, and, in fa&, in many things — 
refembles our newipapers. It confilts, 
however, chiefly of domeitic, and moftly 
judicial occurrences and proceedings, and 
the decifions of the Laugmaauer (fuperior 
judges), and twenty-one Syfelmanner (in 
ferior judges). Bur fince the year 17945 
a literary man, whofe name is Stephenjex, 
publifhes at Skaalholt a proper political 
journal, with the modeft title of Necvs. 
As among the cultivated claffes of fociety 
in the Danifh domimions the Germen 
language is underftood ; all deficiences are” 
fupplied by a German paper; printed in the. 
country, viz. the A/tewza Mercury, o&tavo,. 
which, by the unremitting diligence of 
the. printer, Burmefter, and the edito- 
rial abilities of Rohde, has, fince 17655 
rifeninto celebrity, and contains notices 
of every kind. The prefent editor is Dr. 
Peter Poel, whofe predecefior was a leit ag 
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