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Pdhels‘sw. Awl bale *lady to daMosiersas to !lemma&
and as ttis worIJ, that having acterl solely iyon the sense of
w►st wag 4u e to the wont, of ►is own donsiolous, he is not
desirous, from any other motive, or for an, object of advantage
or aggrviid.sentent, to rosy measures if
hostility beyond the
limits of the necessity Which had produced the& "
You even presume so much upon the asTendancy
.which you think you have acquired, and you kern
such a false idea of the charafter of the Danes, as
still to propose to them amicable arrahgements,
your alliance, your friendship—as if treaties could
be made between vittions and their oppressors—as
if any possible arrangements could appease the just
resentrnrnt of the Danes—rebuild the ruins of
their capital—recal to life their unfortunate fellow-
citizens ; in a word, make that brave nation forget
the perfidy with which it has been attacked and
despoiled.

Denmark will doubtless disdain to reply to an
offer se insultiag ; or rather her Prince has already
given an answer to it, by publishing the orders
which he issued to burn the Bret rather thaa to stif-
fer it to fall into your hands. Worthy of his origin,
worthy of the nation whom he governs, at once
a German and a Dane, this Moe, will never bend
either under the weight of misfortune or under that
of the British dominion. All the ties which bound
him to gngland were consumed in the flames of
Cespephagen. His cause, having become that of
all the Continent,will be proteded by a herd whose
support promises vengeance. But were they aban-
doned by every state, the Danes would never aban-
don themselves. Were all the powers of the Conti-
nent at peace with England, the Danes, faithful to
their honour, would only reply to the British Go-
vet nmeht by a cry of war ; and that one of them
which should be cowardly enough to advise any
other step, would deserve to be treated like the
Athenian who proposed an accommodation with
the King of Persia.
Your declaration could only serve to irritate the
cruel wounds of the Danish nations, and to pro-
voke all the o:her people of the Continent more
and more against you. You have informed Eu-
rope, that your justification was confined to the
pretext of your security. Europe koows that this
pretext is the more ridiculous, since, at the moment
when you attacked Denmark, you turned a deaf
ear to the offers of RUSila, to mediate a peace,
which would have relieved you from all your dan-
gers. Europe is informed, from your own words,
that you have ao cause of complaint against the
Danes, and that all their wrongs against you were
the existence of their fleet, and their perseverance
in neutrality. What a lesson for all nations I
You will give yourselves little concern, I know,
about my answer to your apology, and the light
which I have thrown upon your imposture. While
you behold your booty, you laugh at the principles
which I have opposed to your plunder. Reason
alone is not capable of checking it ; but it is suffi-
cient to confound you at tne tribunal of public opi-
nion; it is sufficient to unmask your undertakings
to Europe, till Europe snail punish you ; and most
assuredly this expeditioii, in which you are perhaps
rejoicieg, of which you are perhaps at this moment
tasting the ft uits, most accelerate the day of verge.
aoce. You are mistaken is the effeele which you ex-
peeled from it. Instead of terror and dismay, you
have excited uniy horror and iudignation. You have,
it is true, a few ships more; but you have your-
selves shut the last ports that remained open fur
you on the Continent. You have rallied round Na-
poleon all the States which still resigned themselves
to your tyranny, and he is hastening to avenge them,
and to re-establish their rights. You have accomplish-
ed an union, which his policy perhaps would not
withoutgrcat difficulty have elated and his genius
will soon teach you the falsehood of the hopes
which you had grounded on your expedition. You
will then find that your measures for your own
security were fraught with ruin, and you will dis-
cover that even in politics, utility and infamy are
never combined. I a radon it wattles •et turpitude me

nee pant 40. History is full of fads which 41evelope
this great truth ; but you either forget or despised
it. You have bhewa at what a moral distance you
are from the Athenians, who, deliberating on a
measure proposed by Thentistocles, mod thought
to be of great utility by Aristides, rejefled it
without inquiring into the particulars, because
the same Atiusues had pronounced it unjust,
It was, nevertheless, proposed to provide for the
security of Athens, by destroying the fleet of the
enemy, and Aristides thom4ht that the measute
could not fail of succtsi. But in this state, divided
by faftions, the munitude in the public place
approved itself mote just and more wise, than
among you here been the men, wbo ate call-
ed to the counsels of the Prince, and become
the ablest men of the nation. You have violated
with respeft to Denmarl the most sacred laws ; but
it is in this impious treason that may be found the
lope of vengeance, like the Spartan general,t who
expeEled his victoty trout the minty by which his
enemies had irritated men and cfiended the Gods.