The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-12-09 00:00:00

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Wier to attempt an invasion at all times, and the
season which confines you in your ports is that
which offers to them the greatest number of chances
of success• In speaking of Zealand, the French
could not have attempted an attack, except in a
season as favourable to your forces as to Oleic' ;
and if they bad then employed against you the
Danish fleet, whit a fine opportunity would they
not have offered your superiority, to carry off with
honour those vessels, which, instea4 of being your
conquest, are your robbery !

r. Yet, even under these circumstances, In calling upon
Denmark fur the satisfaaion and security which His Majesty
eat compelled to require, and in demaiid.ng the only pledge
►y which that security could be rendered effeemaithe to Kr
prey pcesemien of that fleet, which was the skis( induce-
meet to France for forcing Denmark into hifttilitiaw with Great
Britain—His West), accompanied this demand with the offer
dewy conditioa which could tend to reconcile it to the inte-
ract and to the feelings of the Court of Denmark.

.1t was for Denmark herself to state the terms and sttpula•
lions which she might require.
is If Denmark was apprehensive that the surrender of her
ism would be resented by France as en act of connivance,
Iris Majesty had prepared a force a such formidable magui_
tune, as must have made concession justifiable even in the
estimation of France, by seniethig resistance altogether un-

availing.
If Denmark was really prepared to resin the demands tit
France, and se maintain ber isidependeuse, His Majesty
proffered his eo-operation for her d..teneee..naval, military, mid
pecuniaty aid $ the guarantee of her European territories $
xrd the eternity and extension of her colonial vrtsgssions."

It is after having heaped up so many falsities in a
few lines, that yoo, at length, speak of your pre-
tensions with a freedom which would merit another
name. You ppm having demanded that the Da-
nish fleet should be tutrendered to you. It is for

the whole univarse to answer and to say, if ever a
more insulting proposition was made to an inde-
pendent people, even to a people borne down by a
long train of misfortunes t And you speak of
0 conditions, of arrangrments, favourable to the in-
terests" of Denmark I as it the Dines could put

price upon their honour, and enter into a market to
know what their infamy was worth to them ! Ah !
shall it then be true, that what is held the most
sacred amongst men has been with you deemed
as article of merchard!ze, and has had its book of
rates t The Danes make of it an article of culture
aid test of traffic. How then should they have
come to an understanding with you to dishonour
aral deceive, ly semblance of constraint unwor-
thy of their loyalty. a power that never had
conceived injuries towards them ? Will Europe,
in reading your Declaration, have the power to con-
ceive that you have dared to avow views so base
awl a policy so wretched ? Jr-Mope cannot well
byre conceived that you could have proposed to
Denmark your protection, your " guarantee fir her
Luropeisa Irrr:r/r9," after so many and so humiliat-
ing experiments which, you have made of this
kind. If I except from these Russia, where
is the power in Europe, and who is the
Prince, the integsity of whose territory you have
=guaranteed? Who is he that bas not experienced
the sad proof of your imbecility ? In the same act
you evince fears for your safety and your guaran.
tees. How is it possible to reconcile so much alarm
with so much power ? Is there a falsity in these
offers? or is there a falsity in these alarms? We be-
have we see craft and ostentation gainA hand in
hand.

" That the sword has been dawn in the execution of a
service indispensable to the suety of his Majesty's dominions,
is muter of sincere and painful icret to It.. Majesty. That
the state and circumstances of the world are such u to hare
I:gained and justified the mealurcs of self-pre.ervatiest, to
winch His ►tajesty has found himself under the neceuity
resorting, is s truth which His Ma,esty deeply deplores, but
fur whiat he is u uo degree respeesible."
If you henceforth speak of yuur afilitlion. of your
grief, nobody will be deceived by such hypoctisy.
if you repeat that your atrocious measures against
Denmark were only 6, measures of sell) 4)
the world will every where inquire it it really be
necessary for your preset v ettion, that all the maritime
forces of odier states should be annihilated t If you
cannot 'list without appropriating to yourself their
marine and their commerce, without sending
amongst them a band of robbers, tun carry off even
ii,e very last of their vessels—even the very last
remnant of their arsenals—even the very last plank

1.1 thtir magazines ? All Europe will rise at this
idea—arid wisi answer, that your measures of
pruerrefies are measures of ambition and avarice.
" Nr Majesty has long Genies( on a most unequal eontc,s;
of scrupulous luibearanco agaim.t unrelenting violence and
eppleeeion. But that lorheao AUCd it, its bounds. When the
design via. openly ay.iwei, and already but tcri far advanced a-
wards its eccemplislimeut, of aubjetling the Powers of Europa
to one universal usurpation, and of combining them by terror
or by force is a confederacy agaiwit the maritime rights and
political existence of this kingdom, it became necessary for
His Majesty to anticipate the success of a syetelni.r.ut mare
hod to his Mimosas than to those of the Pt•wera who inc
&stled to be the instruments of it. execution.
" It is, time that the sant. of that dread which reline*
hat inspfieJ into the nations of the woad, should be counter
acted by an ',season of the pow sr of Great Brita.n, ca led fo
by tbinexigency of the aisle, and proport.oited to the tmag
toile of the danger."