The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-10-08 00:00:00

THE XJIPI DI VON.

LITZ ACT Of A PRIV ATI LETTISR. s
On Samrday: the i loth of S-reenber, fourteen of
eir Dar.is:i line ut batt'e skips had Moved out of else
hiebr.ur and were lying in Copenhagen Road',
hating nearly completed their lading so as to be
'tidy so salt • and it was exPodoeil .tisat the Wei...
demot wnalieprooeed itnnri diately to England.-
11.4 .14 was the first completed, mud was equipped
by the rfikt'S ef IreTes's people. Evely prise
was allitted to some part;celar ship, and ittisdpae
der the immediate inspeNien of t'a: Captain ; ' they
were also christioed according to the Braids ship
which bad the charge of their outfit —thus the
Waldemar was beeter . known by the name of;
"The Yeast i'tsurt of !!lilts"--f trissisa she Prilebs.
WAS only recognised by the Es ghsh seamen under
the ti:le of *. Tile Twang Puerfree; and the Cries
Prace Frfderitk, by thet of t• The room Mgrs."-
though the tide was no: quite appropriate ; the ar.
rangement, however, produced is competition bz-
tween the parent ship,, as fb which of eaci offspring
should be Mit brought to assrarity I and the come
sequence was, that in less than a weekiell the ships
afloat bad their yards acres., to ale maids/ west of
the Danes ; and those which were not kir/at:lit cut
into the Roads were only employed in taking in
slam soil consist depthrlitliich could be more con-
venieatly.accomplisked in dal harbour.
It is estimated that there will be brought away.
betides all the stores complt te for the eighteen sail
of the line afloat. wids)dothing for them, and pro-
visions for six months, as much timber. cordage.
masts, &c. &c. as will build eight or ten more sail
of the including the completion of di/Ai on
the stocks, which the carpenters of Use iltiviett fleet
had already taken in hand. Of these vessels,. oil
7.l's, one was nearly planked in, another was com-
pletely framed, and a third nearly so. Ilse first it
was determined to plank up with deals, so as to sac
her launched without delay—tee other two were to
be taken to pieces, and the framing marked. 'the
timber is of the finest Dantsic oak, and Tamar&

able forits rise and curvature.
It was imagined that the mew were in watt qf
sieesetteitieh fronsthe esickesse of their fire while
the root tar batteries were eroding and the ep-
proaches going OD 1 bin a magazine of 3000 barrels
of pereriler was foetid in the arsenal. This the
Danes pretended was the property of their Kam
India Company, but not being 'hie to substantiate
the claim, it was made prise of. A few days after
this dce:sion was known. a Danish soldier was
found lurking near the magazine with a lighted
match, and it was strongly stupefied that :as
desperstedetign was to hare blown ar the maga- _
sine ; in consequence of this. therefore, the Bri-
tish took possession of an additional work, which
proteeted this magazine, and which was not ceded
to them in the first instance.
Several shells and r 3 kete fell into the arsenal
during the siege; hut. fortunately, as the eviler hal
turned out, missed all the ouilding. shipping. add
timber piles, one shell excepted, which sunk a .mer.
chant vessel in the harbour, and. arrange to say, this
vessel happened'to be an English one, and almost
the only Engiish vessel in the place.
We have ate.itained, that in tht quartet. of the
town surrounding toe Great emoth, which was
burnt, there are many sir efts in which not a single
horse it lefi standing: in this part the panes ac•
knowledge there were SIS bonsai' demolished, be-
sides tha detached fires which happened io evety
part tit the town, in the suburbs, the ropewalk, and
an immense timber-yard, month is a planet of a
mile in length. In fait. lewheueet aze to' be seem
which do an exhibit the -masks of shells, 'philters.
Or shot; and the Danes themselves have declared,
that every house hit by a rocket was inevhabiy
burnt ; the account they girt of the died of this
weapon is, that it pierces the roof, and through ODD
Or more of the doors ; that in a few seconds
wards the suffocating smoke produced by the burr..
ing matter et•etents the possibility of any attempt to
extingaish it, or to save the buEding. which in a sew
minutes i, completely oss fire.
The unfortunate General Peyman is abused by
all parties in the City ; by the better classes for nei..
thee taking nor entorciag any precaution against
the elfeas of the bontbardmeat, and by the mob
for surreudeting at all; and so much were the
sailors enraged at the Capitulation, that they beset
his head-gutters, and the guatd was obliged to fire
upon thsio nor wets they dispersed till many lists
were lint. Our uuops wets astonished in the mid.
dle of the night at this firing of musketry.
The Danish head•guarters ate, and were, dewing
the siege, at Rowe's Hotel d'Angleterre. the only
Engiiso ,lotel in the place—ia this house no
than thiee shells fell, and several persons were
wounded: but the same. indeed, is the case in al-
most every house, with such spirit did oar artillery
support tne lah3ur of the bombardment every night
hum eight o'clock in the evening till noon the neat
day. Un ha Ist right 2500 shells were thrown;
• sr the second I 503, (orders having been given to
re4e); and on :he third upwards of 10.-
beets found that the forbearance of the
did not produce the effra intended by the
of the Commander in Chief.

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