Claim: Daniel Hailes heavily opposed to the French Revolution which began in May 1789 and published a Danish poet's article in The Danish Spectator using the pseudonym Simon Sanddrue.
Evidence: Heavily opposed to the French Revolution, he zealously attempted to calm Denmark's revolutionary leanings during his ambassadorial time there. The French Revolution (French: Révolution française [ʁevɔlysjɔ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛːz) began in May 1789 when the Ancien Régime was abolished in favour of a constitutional monarchy. After the 1794 fire at the Christiansborg Palace, the Danish poet Peter Andreas Heiberg wrote an article which he published in his friend Knud Lyne Rahbek's journal Den Danske Tilskuer (The Danish Spectator) under the pseudonym Simon Sanddrue on 17 March that year.