Star. — London, England, 1808-02-04 00:00:00

'.' . • M . , 7 ---- _ . seltih.ced would not agree to it. _ He wished also that copies.. any reports received from not . tie ceri in the - Dal , tic should be laid. before the Ho There werd, persons of that description centinuts assing by Copenhagen, from Sweden , fro m Russia, from Prussia, before that power was demolished. It' was impossible that any . grest. preparations could have taken place In that got *Agin its being perceived by ihein. If such Information was termed . to-hiss; be "could silly drew :06. • ceoclusion from it, .that it was denied .bec=aa. ia:diti Rat east. . g Avg - V on effacers, as it was their dog; &dam. give such i nfer-. tentiots, ifwasbecaose seise *communicate. lb* '. Of fist_ sio" ' ' '.. ti - 'cli: the part Of Zit .-.:,-1:•':-.forttiillit - . . itionths acUlaltif te *MM. the jeara*Y- of this „atamitl , .: 1 1.! A 44 *On scoot pains to inquire into tin copanct ot . Doss*, sisli bicolour that the -Danish • Goverment:W .l6 ft tbiksmAllest suspicion of any hostile intention -On the *OW England. • 14 9 1. hen: Waite Ditiiilt Captains, in :saitkisence otter runibuts 'rollick •Wiiii gob ilinbout in this town, that the iket tiliciChia siged ' tbe Baltic night . •is be destined to. attack ,Copen. lige% ' to their Consul. for.. advieti be wrate to the ' vf Cam , an important branch of the 1)04" . '' - I.**attrfft.t wee not . the *talest likeli... Isiaiod . so.y.litterrerilott to. the tiffs hitileen the two Courts. , At that tine , there were SSO Danish' . sMwkith Cargoes, amounting se at beast. two 4 - Withh - pests. •It it to be cosdited, that if Den.. ntatt 'WO • tits&rift: to indict a _deadly blow upon. Egghmetiefehe ~ii iiiit have tileie some efts t power' 0 iiiteii *aloalle'indilietrottetif .hitt' po*ie r - pad the *0:4=11 or c;:tr-tie •Da.: ilial crWrernMillt riteitiiii4o t hose desiins which are *tainted W,it nty.;;•ilDo not• hairy to. itinarlt.-de, notliaito itithein: where you are—lva:shave nods' - VI apprehend' rlt Sete impossible Denmark could hi v e entiittadied inyliestile *tendons at the Arne. If she hid; she.a*.Wetill hive been guilty. of the fell/ of.evisig_ . kith '4 mass of-V.44)k "Tomo; -in ?kw hanilS„ fitit:Ts iris ibirl, though ihe • did. atet, it -* probabli she*Oildbileltintay forced to . inter into the view!' Of - rrance, ind'enpface her navy at the dig-. pair Of thatioolver.:.if the conduct of 14Buit' tete was, at ill to beldoelfind,lf - was be justified upon these - 'XrifSine boinVilsejustifted unon-ihezbettogity 'of 211 - ' • 46411410 of-fraitee. If One'Wholid eier' "Neaten 'Upon: the laws'oreetiotielead afir:eviild j ay, that one power wa# jasii6l.4 14 • • . ' . . aireythe troperrt of another, except it lines •• - *. • ' Nhatit • might be converted to the deed* t iti; br th erorissei, that the,.! U animMinent s diher that it might be *Zed by a,thipdc ni v:, r ot s an a. interest atstitliot the .first; .- 40W:4 eckei-s &lii I from f Ai Miaioerial modal ' diceisity vv. justjficaticiacivithil ease;- must be ibonded eion the ireaknas of Deintarh ttli* strenth'an4 intention of Pince. • .14On there 'VMS not . 4 **lose of proof 'Wok Ott MU* that ailr Mr?* tolilectintt he . pleefeW4if her na , ent*sthe - D4 - 4 11 t pence had 'eivirlbeels tie& by' thet poi , V*KtollitE *hut of rirpen beget. '''Netc4 stb the fli:IP*111 Wake had • eStaining-libliessidn of • the . UtAbreta Vy i • At the, thnii Aiming Gadtbier - tailed fe".t 'eopeehageb,* banisVoilleyiree enauoied in Heliteht. - The Freak voniellfbradieldlfed in the utOlthotehood in ernisi: erabklbee‘ : ' This appeiitancc•cella part of Ditt mar) *Stet Willett • any . vielbet inclination be sub .ntit to Ina* The katstilm wasoelsediei the Trench hive** 'dent tonstellibilission lln his tiphatici, - it lwfWkittiltriOgakiwitit ./t initht be able to trybrren IWO:ft andlutlidd 1 but was not Nor way testiaillingi .ki Atoll . as L'thc. I?anish Colonies and the /Pods in the s'lleltit, • in one Of which the capital is •sithitiV, - If the Breech lad ihttatened.to occupy Ifblittbßi, eit the Utah 'navy were placed at her, di.lloo, weuMncit Thownirit say to them, "You have' - riglit ' \re • ' navy ; but nev, „,..... to ear lipid me to - gil -up my ti... , __ if 1 I'M t'sy. ltel cliniCe,l will•prefer the 'friend- yield to France or Russia. He had shaped another general' _ _in ks —, . pt, as the salvation of this countr y. ' Th g e e ß nL ight ship of 'Englati - - • su - noted by her, ' I shall resolution, the object of which was, that Copies of zezainnty nikey, my cot:lnterco. and lity - - colonies.— the Correspondence between Mr. Jackson and the g rl e a n t tl it em wa an s u (!l t l e P i o n n ten so t n i t n y ) o h fi d fi e n x is p te re rs sse e d nt ,y These Feanee cannot take from nie ; ant 1 • will not Secretary for the Foreign Department, as well before place the fast at her disposal, to prtilerve that which as after the attack upon Copenhagen, should be laid depart from the old and known principles of moral; by a breach of faith she may At'any 'tit= take from before the House. This he learnt Minis t ers meant to but the Hon. Gentleman must, if he meant me i" The proposals 'of-Englind - Were earth as would resist. Before the House could decide as . to the me- his morality into practice, afford a more splen4 ample of public morality than was ever known not be accepted by any Power which - wished to pre- rits or demerits of Ministers in advizing the seisure of serve the smallest claim to the tide eat% independent the Dish Navy, it was essential that it should b e nations of civilized Europe, and with which the' state. They were - an insult, a mockery , such as, i acquainted with the proposals relating to it. Now, morality of the ancient Romans could not applied to the transactions - of private life,:wouhl. be, there was not one of these, as well as he could learn, He must prefer his morality even to self-preserva If the Gentlemen on the other side of the He rejec ted w ith scorn and indignatich by any inan of :which did not insist upon the continual detention of spirit. For what were they ?' Denmati was 'called the Danish Fleet. One of these Proposals, and that now to be called upon, as well as his Majesty' upon to give up her fleet : it *as in • viin . that she the most moderate among them, was, that it should Ministers, to justify their Administration, there pleaded ihe had no hostile intentinnfor - engagements continue in our possession, not until after a definitive be this gr at diff. rence between them: the Cr on the other side would have to account towards th i s countr y : s h e w as Told, that she war en- peace with France, but for three years after that event. titled to no credit, and that nothing short of uncondi- Ministers justify themselves upon the necessity of an- carious failures, disasters, and disgrace, tional submission in this point could save her free ticipating France, and frustrating the three projects that his Majesty's present Ministers would ha' t he c onsequences of a war with England: Nothing which she was supposed to have in co itemplation : fend, was a measure attended with c omplete but the right of conquest could have justified Such An One of these was the shutting of the Sound, and (Cries of hear ! hear ! ) Whatever might be a plication. Under the circumstances it was made, another the excluding the commert it of England from of that decision, he should always retain in , k had no choice between resistance and dis- all the portsoftheContinent. How have theysucceeded the sincerest satisfaction at the recollection of honour. ' Now let us see the means which' France —how have they secured these two objects ? Why, he had taken in advising that meastne. It ' possessed of seizing the Danish navy. He had taken the have done enough to provoke the hostility of happened in former times, that when those \ some pains to inquire into the subject, and he found Denmark—to render her the inveterate enemy of themselves conducted the, affairs of the empire it was upwards of 150 years since an army passed England, but not to crush her power. • Why did honour and advansage, bequeathed their power on the ice, from theirrain land to the Danish islands they not retain Zealand, if they meant to prevent worthy successors, the glory which their predee in the Baltit. It rarely happened' that ineliiiduals from shutting the Salmi ? That would have been had acquired would add to the reproach of those ventured to pass the Great -Belt. Though the lati- practicable, if they had occupied that island with the Ministers who should depart from their steps tudes of places remained the same, it Was notorious British force which was already there, and the auzi. this could not be said to be the ease of the that the cold yeas not so intense now as it was many : liary force which, it appears, they might have drawn Ministers. He was not aware that they had years ago : so that nothing was, more improbable from Sweden. Why,' when they had once adopted a from their predecessors any hoard of glory; or than, tMt the frost thoitld be so great as to render, hostile determiaation, did theynotproceed.to dismantle bright examples which they should follow. the sea between HOlstein and Zealand practicable for the Danish fortiacations, to destroy the arsenal, to fore, the Hon. Gentleman on the other side the ass:lr of an army. The Noble Lord opposite blow up the Crown Batteries ? . Why !rm• they so institute inquiriei, it certainly - cOuld not be , hal e tated the Danish force assembled at Zealand at shabby in. their iniquity-4. Why, when they imitated 'fralgatititiah7, : orwithany view of d raw i nt , 35,000 men, The army encamped at Holstein a- the conduct of - Benagarte,:.did they• not pursue the ':rlsolssi sad' therefore at has it ma t t be - confessed ' mounted to 30,000 :so that here was a force • same. spleadid .aud Inagnanintotis line 'of hostility ' their motives-were quite disinterested (a !awe " 6500 men, exekiive of Swedes and British. How,, :Which characterised,. his military achievements ? inquiries nowwere not about the danger of the'. he would ask, se • ' the lie passable, were the There was nothing * _hiclreoirld shew, meet than their 'sod the causes °Ethane dingeis, but t h ey ' were French W occupy so d ible a place as Zealand; in conduct, the.nlisclkf eir thing ill - by halves. ; The *the eonsparative security which' the country , the face of i t s a force . ?. 'lf they both( mike a road same information which justified . tbe taking of - the 'Aimee the success of the e x p e diti on , and the over the Belts, it Would be impossible for them to Danish nay, would have.justified theta in retaining , that - security; and it was io with inquiri es act there; and to sal; envies • bther AuppOiition, that or destroyingCopenbagen.• Hetroultinci take up the Nara wevenirw called upon to answer. If _ the B r i t i s h an t Dash worl d -nbt. tit able to ' question - upon' principles of • tuorality.o dtulee . of law Hon, Gendetoan really wished to act upon prevent them, would be 'talking =inset*: He would aid.morahry.wete. according to . the modern tenets, . prisraples which be had laid down, and to next entiuire how "Tlante'vras to oblaitt assistance tartar- foolkand philosophers, Bit not for statesmen. If 1 skyouble to a practical conclusion; then we . froth Russia ? 'The randy it is said, after' the race this was the-aced - oftdinisten, they were wrong .not , to 1 artily tie back thnDinieh fleet, in order of Tilsit, had thrtivnilierser cotupletety iuto the have reduced Desmarkto the lowest possible degretof might be able.; in a. few m ent hg, to ta k e i t ai arms of 'France, and *i t chy gase_ siich t.pteponde- Weil-nest. .1 4 sitnot be nipposedhowever, that hb'svbs racte.tegektmlililer, which would not 'violate route to - ddst "Power halfiendeied her nadir, Ban s, l 3 , iikk Otiiiiskichittroileitts counsel ; but, acting abstnietiniieiple. for which t h e G ent l eman • row than ever . irdii t - i r e t i tbe fact,' Why, he woo um.* ..... • - mon which **tell seem mime , 7 other side tenteided. ' lf they could il • as k, did w e seize upon tie r)anisitnrits and - suffp acted ; to consilibeatirriditimminialveletihrysbablilhaW HMO tie vele Vier theta ib opinion , it the fl eets of Russia tia rave about it plensuret lad dose. fa. But what wee -their cendett 1 - . Zealand to that e• - •ft,ek in pract.ice j rot it could Ministers any daubs: . of the hostile intentionK of Rik- was alst lama pion 4-anneinsit. emir yaw ',damp; peat 4hat haulms wsed‘ e opag ate . t k e act, s It 'valid nine* _lit: Lord 13a 10: e col build Beets fagot . (i t le d yapea.there die ratim‘s his 'divot& stated B . ndherff-- ; .• ?Aglq - .., vs • tld the . D was .... aginecessilrep No t ,. th at -there were mein uncles la the 'MAP' - o f ) I ftteripen'lteialtd on' Titbit, but that ai!ey &d ^ concern Eagligok-A4otaa possibility. an also stated if hisMajestraAdlarations.4lo4 quarter. Let any; . onix..lo nt, the situation knOwledne of thete'artieleaMeicli induced hipnlibt , ft; colo t try, whether . stauritY. Oid been. at der. the seizure of the'Donish Navy. It yrait thorn.' . gthened by that issoceeamg. tbe arcumstan fore eget to Ana* .luzw...these.articles-applied • jen-invisiels-Minatnss._ ,leasis-dniftellk:**ll:Val.P" the Co of *Denmark. .anoslej ontis s . z ., 4iS• Middle CO)21,0 WA* adoPt;s 4 - should have patches, .Noble Lord:antes- thin . Aw nie ss , straye d they "ens' a tor her . ,.. b or k not Geotkin have t an ttac o l ver In conference he to atith -him, did- Mt •Jekkke blur t h e , sma lle s t illoslies to the..transactions at Peg* ikteirtay - had intimmedtithle.Pl44447-90uhstdettg— turn, .wad That .he ,fas. astonished ntles 7215Fning MAW:WS. . !MIK settirl this . *receive, a *III 1494. flan' him alK* 4l 4 3c * 61 ' 11 ' 27, if 447"149neci ' I.*" had - In.continupic„atteg the. capitulation , iif • inuthing.onasistaLtnort, thanthat Franck he nate* A ninstificition of the attac, :Await* .tieninart. would attest Sire/lei Itcntilironsnri t wy ? qv 40* to covoe **Cent the. ..andfrien that vety t zlaraia, thef.had,a4andonitd-7 - th coast - m an etiplanation. iitigtven by his Mn- . Miere2id not appear to run Ihninellest Around: .' josty'S Ministeri to the Emperor ofitussia-4O shit - juslikthern in any point of view. *Neithei theirs:oils- 1 Power *lto ii now cha in as lb* :prat instigator. U Mencernent of thewar, nor their conduct of it. : the pyincipal ...agent in.. 'the. Confedera_cx. Would in ; his opinion capable Ofjuitification.. north( that *Winn:, if asked by -klte.troPeroraltUnieli wh Mouse, hear, is a justikcauCta• that estatesisons Fere.' have you attacked Dennjark, content himself wi t absolved from the observance Of d rff replying, we /lave datathat Dentianskinealit to attack • "rality. Let it not be lappesed. that Paottpeuen. or to b e come t he.instnunent ofan attack upon. Eng, not watch over the conduct Of aatio.ps. es w.r.4 as land ?. WOuld.that be the way of up holdin g the actions of individuals. History honour of the country." or maintaining the character proofs that it did, and that its vengeance:hell :otter of the natioa'? He-had not the hollow Of the; Noble lallen.upon them. " Look," Said.theftlit Hontant. Lord's acquaintance; but.. from what he heard of able Speaker "at your conduct with respect tai4mo. he was persitadecrthat if such: a question had r ica. When: y( 3 l departed from the piles of justice Iseenput to him, and that he stas..cenvinced Russia . ancl . .morality, - you loitAmetica. France interfered, was a party to the confederacy, his answer would and she hasino right to interfere. She interfered here beak tell do, ask, use, you who are yettr ► for the purpow of • entincipating : Arnerica, but: Pelf.the jinni! instigator ?.I,n' fact, h could find no- wat kinins . E ntr u st & an d t h e r e in. areogibeshit I thing in the papas laid -helot. the : House, *to justify aggrandizing h . Bit the Government which .p.stispicion that Death & had hostile intention to- .thus Interfered, has been-since punished for it. wards this connVy, "litd..that Russia: ins : privy to •• principles which the•Frerich armyleinst in that "them.. "the dispatches mentioned-, Sicily and Corti, try, became the seeds.ef.that Revolution. which and tin'key, and , drew teasons .from them. - fee Fes- "Whelrited the Govenuuent scattered the family .sing thadisclinute of the secret...article:4l)in there sent them across the them as not oneword:in them respecting the hostile &ten. - seek an asylum in this Country." Were there ilons of pinitkark7t-in one Of the dispatches , his Mai- otbe i instances ?He would beg these ph i l os oph ers jest • .lOnade Ay, that lie is perfectly willing that the modern school to study in the book he should . • Rstseit ahonld become the pacificator open to them. Let them look at th e partition • • and:'Deimark, and yet, only in a land : there they would read that Prussia , t he tee, pasta g 4 ore; Murk of st, Petersbtugh is igent in that detestable confederacy , to destroy charged chief iastroMeAtt in the 'cede• only the power, but the very name of an independent . eaey.. He haiiMme curiosity to know how the Right State, had been deprived of her share of the robbery , !Honoitiihie. Oemlesnaa opposite to him weed and redneed:to.the most abject and deplorable state. *rtnsile A change at this time There *they would.sie Austria and Russia trembling zgok, place in. the,isflielin.hcmistry, and the Rare- for their part of the spoil, and crouching at the septative ef44Majestt:at •the'etiort -of St. Peters- of Bonaparte. Who could say, that ihe justice itirgh.ltas cmfetente :with M. Soltikoff, the suc- Paomieure was not evident in all this ? The ," cessor qlM.:l)ndbetg. • fre again presses for a COM• object of the Resolution he had to propose mitigation of . the Secret:- articles, and supports possible, to obtain such information as must . his. application hy-tbensual arguments, drawn from him that Ministers were justifiable in what they . thestate ofAicily. Turkey, and proceediNcs in the done. - He was anxious the character of the country Mettfteitanealt. During all this-time, there is not one should stand as fair as it always had, and that word, notoneayllable, respecting,the hostile inter- it should not be made a reproach to us, that - tions of Denmark, as concerted with Fiance and Rus- very time we were most vehement in condemning kftnisters were perspaded of die:Alienation of atrocity of Fiance, we went far beyond it. Mr. Pi the Emperor of kutsia, of his complete devotion to sonby concluded with moving, the views-of France, why, down to the. 4th of.No- That the substance and dates of such information as n gmbeg, did.they continueto supplicate_ hint Margo- received from his Majesty's Minister at Copenhagen. as . fiallethe peace of the North of Europe ?' ff he bad latedto the naval preparations on the part of Denmark, should 11**n:eta hostile spirit towards his former illy, what laid before the H"ae• were they labouring at,from the peace of Tilsit 4own to Mr. Secretary CANNING began by observing . tke -4Ada ybe had men tioned ? According to their own the moment had at length arrived, • when his Majesty, 0114 : hi s di spos i t i on was per f ect ly am i c abitl. to . Ministers were called upon to shew to the House the wards. England, until he was driven out of it byFrktice grounds upon which they had advised the Expedition —never was there such an excuse for breakingin to Copenhagen, and to justify their conduct upon upon the repose of a neutral nation, and robbingliit occasion. The Hon. Gentlemen on the other of her Best- But supposing Russia inclined to to-opis. - the Wouse who arraigned their conduct, were t. rate in the views .wizich are attributed to Fiance, how? ly most peculiarly qualified to impeach the condi was:she to compel Denmark to surrender:her navy ? others from their own splendid achievements - Was she to march her army down the Baltic upon the; .train of successes.—(Loud cries of hear ! hear ice ? Wiley was her fleet to contend with the fleets of Majesty's Ministers were now on their trial, England. Domark and Sweden Every means of re. -iag advised an act, which, in its success, was sistance were on the side of Denmark, and there was no ferent from the glorious enterprises of their prede• prOof in any documeat which had been yet laid before cessors, and which (before,any opposition had (rpmhose Gentlemen) had been considered the Hone, that she had the smallest intention to those . teek and proclaimed by the - teral • ieee yet keep all the advantages of it; that up., talon ; 1311 n os demn the spoiler, and yet retain the spoil, Ii rata P r e. was alt then a work of injustice, that iri • 4 ' Pest I o f 1 tom not only remarked upon, but repaired. of Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Ponsonby) would , •ohe 9 11111. tin 76; a ll however, not wish to carry his doctrine so far in 4711! tan- tice. He had stated, and very fairly, that th e 4, !. no tion-sestednnnelallf on.thedesigawid. - de; the . siifficiency Denmark to prevent th - ; s 7.S. 1. 211 1: t i :ked being carried Onto execution. As •to the f erse de p T 1 81 2. 1 n over thalmention of Sampan*. to seize upo n ee ffyn ,„ • ve. C ou by • which could . Unmade - mevicestble to _his•zuhri7, 1111g6 . em tlw . his malice, this *Ai not atlP.nted by . the - Right fi cT L...retteef I asou Gentleman hinteel4 aid therefore it would b e !lt clvial l mace, time io' (men it. ' l l l he - Right Hon 6.: :L it 4 t i t i h the httteetzt bflus seam,. owner, speech, sek lut 7474.1 raise F rance frond die and degrading sitttant h Id-before:ikeictibiditier 4 n; and 'Untried Orb l oi t t h e aul s p;r Mtn-, 'more inft W 44 4 1104 Pert, namely , that of n i rd appointed hy•Provulence to emeute his • • deal 1 t,•the •othernationis. He-dieirnonknow, however,, • o f to • Pie such descriptions done enemy could tend t A • cept to make us, according to the Marrichre a . • e . 4id i won hip the wicked spirit and yield to i t , „ • 1144 yEy is t h e , memo and impious to resist. •The next quest* • , gate & T ierons. to consider was, the dispesition of Denmark ; often r equested. the Right Hot. Gentleman to recoil-tat , ttorg ,n 0„,.• he had never stated that it was willingly, and , Am t - own choice, that Denmark had become hosoh. • tp t wice had always put it on the ground of her tern tz :7;4 1 7 0 1 fe t ed, to resist the avowed designs of the French Mtn tov i c h e d not vernment. It was the confessed weaknessel • a ' ar i rut of mark, coupled with the known intentions ride l o ot g and my, which. made it necessary for this country •• tl which Ink herself of the Danish fleet. At the.san n rl if De l The however, he did not state a hostile spine in I. * • and t/ coon. mark : he disclaimed those advantages which . • - 01 over- denten on the Other side would make of di: wi t which in their arguments by representing_ that the hew alma hem to Denmark was-entirely with us. •He was . ere no shew that this was not the case, and that it was s nient lets of plete misrepresentation. -Frorritheyearl7Bo,Yrin , hln should principles of the armed neutrality were breach,* . to , di ; o f til the present moment, the feelings of the Com h a p it h prime Denmark to this country-had been rather hostile to int e y not friendly. He did not mean to say, that this . rendent feeling had carried them so far as that they i'c t f te • obbery, solutely wished to go to war with this country; . ysi h it e state. still their disposition seemed to be my thing . . m mi ng friendly. As Deamaxk, therefore, neither fi r , he feet friendly dispositions to this country, nor power to the s tice of sist the demands of France, the step which was • t a gt i chief by his Majesty's Ministers had become, in . . gaci a was, if state of Europe and the world, necessary for satisfy nervation of this country. At the end of diem & y i n ley had mer wars, there could be no doubt but that-the . m e i country of Denmark was perfectly hostile to this country; i ns ., red that although that hostility , which had broken outin • .it - Q v it at the acts before the expedition in 1800, was terminuoi D a ning the a positive convention in the early part of that . •in Is m . yet in that very winter, and after the con • t h e Denmark was entering into new combinations f oal had bete this country, which were only put an end to.zt .•• t h e far as re- time by the interference of Russia. Did. this tut shooed be duct of Denmark shew any good disposition to . pit country ? or, after such conduct, would any bet ring esat meat be justified in looking with absolute and •• Majesty's petting confidence to the neutrality of.that • • l b ouse the When the Danish Government hadconducted tpedition such a manner, at a time that much leo ipon that threatened her, it Vat ..r: tZ; -be expected. tint • IN er side of wou ld have ac ted differently in ar±i'Sis •• e certain- and when her dangers were multiplied tenfold. if . gA =duct of th ere w er e no positive indications of the • • ! and long hostilit•paf Denmark, there were abundantgvoundskt •!) His such suspicions as would make meannesof - ••t ti for hay- on our side necessary. It was hardly necessity to • t 1 ; very dif- to the recollection of the House the favourite • err prede- which Bonaparte had so often professed, of • v had come the British commerce from all the.ports of the • rd by the neat, and collecting all the navies of &11,/ as t -ral voice, down the naval force of this country. This. • l •ght Hon. he never had lost sight of ; zad.he not only • • I . n hope , stated it in all his declarations, but made it a pin ntirely to all the treaties which he had signed. Would.i: morality; contended, then, that there was any thing • . j Ito carry in the situation of Denmark, which would give lendid ex- better chance of escaping from his grasp than wll by the other of the feeble nations on the Conti:lnn ? A I he boasted Right Hon. Gentleman seemed to think that•De„. . • compare. mark had taken sufficient precautions for her tense' !serration. by her army in Holstein and her naval foists. h Souse were order to consider whether this opinion was vell fen is present /led or not, it would be necessary to go back -ale sere would years to those times when Denmark was first r; 3cntlemen riously menaced by a French force. The betel nt for no- of the dangers of Denmark wa when a Fralle while all occupied Hanover in 1803. Although the • • tare to de- army was then upon the very frontiers of Demi. to !uccesy. the Danish Court did not then thnk proper to* e the issue forward a man to defend their . neutrality. Ale" a his mind was this boasted cordon of Danish troops to disa of the part Holstein at that time ? The fact was, that Denial t had often never put forward this body of men in Holstein, le e who had til the French evacuated Han over in 1805, and a t mpire with country was occupied by the troops of Grenade* ,wer to un- and her allies. Then Denmark sent a body* of 0 11 redecessors to her frontiers, and after the fatal battle o re , r f r e, hose guilty the Prussian corps under Blucher h: d • Wu" steps ; but beck, there was actually a skirmish between s a t :he present of French troops and a Danish corps. = est ad received .ground. In that skirmish a Danish or any very been taken prisoner, and was treated with evne . L.Pr —j If, there- Bible Pa" . ty. His horse was stolen, his eivished to picked, and be was treated by the common ieldnel e from any with insults that shewed the complete ing camps. which they entertained for the Danish natio*. fesserd, that might have been supposed, that such an act reels , , 0). Their have altered the disposition of Denmark, and _,leag he country, her hostile to France ; but no such effect fall' were about although it. was at a time when a slight &ger try enjoyed might nave been of very important service re causes of the enemy, and although any support to the 31 7 1 !that Mini- however trifling, might have been of the greatest!! F the Right portance as to die final result of the war (ha upon those hear t hear!) When the Danish army in How!' to push his never attempted any thing against the Frenchult re must ne- but, on the contrary, retired from a mere bur • tler that we troops Of that nation, very little stress could ti it again in a on the circumstance of a considerable body IF. riolate those Holstein at the Mae of the expedition to alb non on the gen. There was another circumstance ;, r. - ail upon the curved about the same time that afforded must come reason to feel much confidence in Danish netsFP'r I not be sup At the time of the capture of Lubeck by*, - „,a he act , and th ere -were, nearly two thiritiand 1""T 1• ••. 1• !L ~~