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London, England, 1807-09-03 00:00:00

copENglonti

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This city, which the events just passing render-GO
peculiarly interesting; is Situated on a small promon-'
tory on the eastern coast of the. Isle of Zealand, in a,
fiat and marshy situation. It formerly belonged tq
the Bishop of Roskild, and was not distingnished by
the royal residence until 1443, during the reign of
Christopher of Bavaria, since which period it has
been gradually enlarged and beautified, and is be-
come the capital of Denmark. Its population is
estimated at 80,000.
• Copenhagen is the best built City of the North
although excelled by Petersburgh in superb edifices,.
yet, as it contains 'no wooden houses, it dues not
dis-
play that striking contrast of meanness and magnifi-
cence, but in general exhibits a more uniform appear-
ance. The city is surrounded towards the land with
ramparts and bastions, wet ditch, and a few out.
Works. The circumference measures between four
and five miles. The streets are well paved, with a
footway on each side, which is narrow and iucons'ee
nient. The greater part of the buildings are of brielG
and a • few of. free-stone, brought from Germany 1;.
the houses of the Nobility are in general" splendid,
and constructed in the Italian style of architednia.
The Royal Palace is a magnificent pile of hewn stohe,
the wings and stables are of brick stuccoed. it we
built by Christian the Sixth, in seven ..years, as the
inscription says, without levying a single tax on hit
subjeas. Part of Copenhagen, which is called Chris.
tianshafer, is, built on the Isle 9f Amak, which gene-,
rally attraEts the curiosity of lin-elvers. Amak is timr
miles long, -and' two . broad, and is chiefly peopled
by the descendants of a colony from East FriPSland,
to whom the Island was consigned by Christian If. at
the request Of his wife Elizabeth, sister of Charles V.
for the purpose of supplying her with vegetables,
cheese, and butter. From the intermarriages of
the• Colonists with the Danes; the present inhabi-
tants are chiefly descended, but as they wear their
own dress, and enjoy peculiar privileges, they appear
a distinct race front the natives. The environs of
Copenhagen are exceedingly beautiful; the country
. is gently undulating, produces much corn and pas-
Lure, and is finely interspersed
.with small forests of
beech and oak. The sea views are enchaming, an 3
the villas and country seats delightfully situated on
the shores of the Sound. ,

ELSINEUE, +HE SOUND, Rc.---El+ineur• was a,
small village till 1445, when it was made a staple
town. by Eric of Pomerania, who conferred several
immunities upon it.. From that period it has `gra-
dually increased in size 8041 wealth ; and is now
the most co►nmercial town in Denmark, nest Co,
penhagen, from which it is distant 20 mileJ. it
contain* about Goon inhabitants.

The passage of the Sound is guarded by the for-
tress of Cronberg,which is situated on the eLlebe of a
peninsular promontory; the nearest point of land to
Sweden, distant about three miles. It is strongly
fortified towards the land by ditches, bastions, and
entrenchments, and towards the sea by several bat-
tales, • mounted with do cannon, tie i 'brgest 48
pounders. Every vesselas it passes lowers her top -mils,
and pays a toll at Eisineur. It is generally asserted that
this tort guards the Sound, and that all Vessels must,
on account of the shallowness of the water, ,and .eur-.
rents, steer so close to the batteries' as to be ex,:
posed_ to their fire. This, however,- ii a mistaken
notion. On
.account, indeed, of the numerous aiid
opposite currents in the Bound, the safest passage lies
near the fort; but the water In any part is of suffi-
cient dcpth for Vessels to keep at a,distance, and the
largest Ships can even sail close to the coast of Sweden
The Kings of Sweden claimed an elemption from ..
toll, but by a treaty in 1721), they agreed to become
subject to it. All vessels, beside a small duty, are
rated at I per cent. of• their. cargoes, except the
English, French, Danish, and Swedish, et hien only
pay one per cent ; and in return the Crown takes the
charge of Light-houses, Signals, &c.
The palace of Cronberg, which is in the fort, is a
square Gothic building. In it was confined the late
unfortunate Queen Matilda. Elsineer Is also re-
markable, as being the s,:ene ofShakspeare's fiesekt ;
and there is. a garden, half a mile from Cronberg,
which -is said by tradition to be the very garden
where the murder of his father was perpetrated.—
The house is. of modern date, and is 'situated at the
foot of a sandy ridge near the sea. The garden oc-
cupies the side of the hill, and is laid out in terraces
rising one above the other.

The scite of Scotland Yarn, it seems, kid formerly
a Palace, which was assigned to the Kings of Scot•
land when they were summoned to•attend as Peers
of England, and hence the place acquired the Of
pellation which it still mans.

Tuesday se'nnight, about two o'clock in the
tcrnooti, a little girl, two years and a half old, the
daughter ofWalker Bull, a private in the gist regi-
ment of light dragoons, suddenly strayed away from
its tnother, who lodged opposite the King's An s
Printing-odice, in Maidstone, it was supposed into
the country. Notwithstanding the. most vigilant
search by its own friends, and' persons sent varions
ways with hand-bills, &c. no tidings of it could .1!)e
obtained till eight o'clock on Friday morning, when
it was NOnd drowned in a dunghill-hole, in toe same
yard where its friends lived. The body was first
discovered by a little girl, from the appearance of
the knuckles of one hand on the surface of the dirty
filth, and soon after taken out, in the presence of the
distra6ted mother, whose sttfirings on that occasion
were indescribable. The Coroner's Inquest was taken
on. the body, and a verdict returned of—decidoaal
Death;

On Friday last R. LASAUX, Esq. one °film Coro-
lilt. Kent, in consequence aim information sent
him from the Admiralty, issued his warrant ter
taking up the body of W. Thompson, son of Mr. W.
Thompson, a pilot at Deal, who was supposed to
have died from a wound he • received in the late
atliay;lbetween Some RevenueOtticers and Smugglers
in the neighbourhood of Deal, and who 1,00 buried
at Shoulden, near that ;place, without an iiiqueit
having been held. An inquest %%rah taken on the
body the same day, when the Jury returned their
verdia—Apparent/y killed I'y a. suoket-ba11.....The
Jury waited about five hours, whilst the Constable,
under a warrant from the Coroner, assisted by two
Police Officers from Bow-streett..endeav,ored to up •
prebend a person alledged to be a nisterial Witneo,
and i.vho had been duly summoned to give evitterive•i
but notwitlisrandink the mast vigil: 10 starch koridu
through the :town of Deal and neighbosoltood, he
could not be discovered.

I'CLICE.

CITI L 1) ST. A I. INC.

OU,tEN S‘ap AR F. esterdity Ann Biyititifoni. tt
Very young girl, was er'.amitied on the charge of de=
coying children from their priy to get fruit, and then.
stripping them of all their outer garments, which
she in, nediately ‘yould pledge for the
.utmost she
could ge.t,'detnolish. the duplicates to prevent de-
teCtion, and then leave time poor •children in the.
street.-01 a multitude;' of tases that carne forward,
the following three were fully gone into : the stefil-
ing, the child of Mrs. Powell, in Felix-street, Lam.
beth ; another of Mrs. Pardbe, of Richmond-street,
Soho ; and a third of Mrs. Pennell, of Monmouth-
street. The latter led to her dete6lion. It came
out in ,evidence, that on Friday last the Prisotier
came to the shop of Mr. Cordy, in Green-street,
Leicesteftields, and pledged' a child's frock'. Mr.
Coldy'S young man•presently after saw her passing.,
L...alling a child without a frock, and then tearing it
'in the street. He very sensihly.coneluded there was
sotnethidg wrong, and laowed her down the street
towards St. Martin's Workhouse, Where lie caused
her to be stopped, and the child to be taken care of.
The stolen article heing pledged, was identified.—
'!'he're being .a number of witnesses against her on
chafges nearly 'similar, h e was remanded till next
,week. Thls,ii the tenth time she has.been heard
on various Charges Of l'eloey be.tbre the Magistrates,
exclusive of Various convi.::tions for different periods.
MANSION-HOUSE. Mr. READER appeared as
Counsel tnr a Mrs. Pepys, a widow Lady, and the
other Parishioners at large, of St. Helen's, Bishops-
gate-street, under the summons of time Rev. Mr.
Cooke, "the Rector of that parish, claitiling an aug-
mentation of tythes. The amount of the augmen-
tation demanded from Mrs. Pepys alone was either
four, or eight pounds 'a year, and from the other
Parishioners in proportion. This demand was re-
sisted by all the Parishioners, and excited great in-
terest, as well as .3 numerous and very respectable
assemblage, which. crowded the Court.--It was ar-
gued by. ttie Learned CounEel, that this was a most
illegal and imposiog•demand by the Rector, who
had been paid the accustomed sum uniformly paid
to such Rectors tor a century last past; and he
moved the Court' to postpone ,the hearing of this
extraordinary cause to some'-day in the ensuing
week, when the Lord Mayor could engage the time
of the Court for time whole day-, upon the subject,.
which is n.) be on both sides most strenuously
liti-
gated, and was considered a new case,

- The LORD MAYOR COlOpiit'd with the Motion,.
and appointed' Tuesday sermight as the day most'
convenient for the hearieg, directing the claimant
to MOO a fresh Summons for that day, '
GUILDHALL.-4 young woman, weh a beauti-
ful child in her arms, apparently about 1 5 months
old, applied to the Sitting Magistrate fbr a summons
against her parish, or rather, as she wished it,
against the parish to which she said the child be-
longed.
She stated that, about ten months ago, she re-;
ceived the child Whom she held in her are s floin a
lad,y of the name of Bond, to nur,e. J)lrs. Bond
was elegantly dressed, lived iii handsome apartments
at the tithe the applicant reeeitid the child from
her, unit nhe, aed her husband, who bore'eeery ap-
pewance of a Gut len lan, were, for several months,
in It:~ habit of calling frequently to see the child,
bringing with them, a fine boy, also their son, of
about five years of age.: Latterly: the visits of the
parents to their infant child had become less fre-
quent, and, for two months, had entirely ceased.
The applicant called for the mother at two different
lodgings to which she had been referred. At one of
them she teuhd her, and was desired to call again
on a varticular day. Having done so, she was in-
lornied by the people of the house, that the persons
she en/pined for were gone, but where they could
not ,say. Site afterwards,went with a letter which
she;procured ritten, to a Lady of the
Mere of Kuigkt;,, in Grosvenorssqmre, who
she undersieecl was, aunt to Mr. Bond: That
1.4.1 y, however, without either admitting or deny-
ing the relationship; d&ditiql seeing the applicant.
—She was induced tic believe that Airs. Bond WAS
tally conneaed with Mrs:.linightly, train recol-
letaing that the' elder boy was named :Knightly
Band. The 'poor woman declared her inability to
provide for the child, without receiving some. re-
compence, and she bad been desired by the Officers.
of Blockfriars, where she resided, to apply' to 'the
Magistrate at Guildhall. She held, in her hand:a
memoranduni Of What she understood was the child's
parish.
Mr. Alderman SCHOLEYi after blaming the wo-.
man for taking a child to mine. tioni people .of
whom.she knew nothing; by which the child might
be,thrown as a ber4en' on the parish,' thought that
the parents ought, rd be advertised.; hut to do. so
more efiedtually, he granted 'tile woman a summons
'against the Officers of her own parish, who would
naturally take :the most effectual sfeei to relieve
.themselves of the burden.

I4tTTort-G9Rnatt.—,Yesterday John genly,vv:as
brought before the Magistrates of. t hits (.11Ftee) charged
with embezzling some, :bed.curtainse hod other.or=
ticks offuroitpre," belonging to a person witb.wbom
be had lotlgecL •
appearld. that the Prisoner )lad' hired furnjsbed
lodgings;lron) the landlord of the Frietid-it;-necd
Public-house, Colonnade, Rassellrsiluare,,,where:he
resided for some time, but wen: away about. a ntouth
since, taking the key at, the apartnitatt with
Finding him so; lung away, .the 4tindlord at lost
broke the &1n...up0n,. and diicKertetl that:the
bed-
curtains, and .some, other articles,of furniture, bail
been carried•offililnd weroirAUtt to a, Pawnbrplier,
where they had•been pledged; by the J'yisoner,,

Uptin thi3.e3;idence lie m,:as cutut»itted.for further
exatn,itutt ion.
Gibsox, a very Tespeclable-looking micic la-
aged iron, was charged by Johnston, landlord
of the Jolly .Cooiters Pubite,house, Clericvnwell-
green, with stealings..a candJe. and AU old brass-can-
dlestick. 'l'lle-Prisoner was. in .he habit of :ire-

'clu, rating the. Prosecutor's house,. and,. on Tuesday
was-.Athserved by a customer to conceal the
comic and candlestick unticr his coat. ltikKination
initu;cliately given at the Office, and be was
apprehended letige he lett the house. The !Ai:km

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goods were not then fasand upon -bits, 1)!,t gotrd
li~tle distance.---11e wa, also connniiied fur re-exa-'
minalion;

A.'respeaable: man, who had- formerly been.
fanner, ;.vas summonu before the 111aghtrates by
his wife, a modest Sand well-looking young ‘..•Omatt,
charged with various assaults .upon. her person,. and
other ill treatment. it appeared that they- had been
sonic -years married, ad -1 had two young children
liVing. in,Con,equence of some dispute, originating'
4:,:rifle, he beat-her severely, and tore her face,
then, dragging her with violence- into ,the chamber
where .site kept her clothes, he compelled her to. be
present while-he took a pair of scissar and cut to
pieces all the clothes he could find, belonging to her
and the children. The husband ileaded the sullen-
ness and ill temper of his wife, while it was evident,
from his own manner, .that he was a man of the
most violent passions.
The Magistrate 'desired that he should either be
properly reconciled to his' wife, or make her a rea-
sonable separate allowance, otherwise he should be
committed for the assault until he should- find bail.

The partici retired with this admonition, and
were to come up again in case of further disagree=

meat:

At Bow-street, on
,Tuesday, a coachman was
fined Vos, for retnsing to proceed with a fare atter
lits coach had been occupied. It appeared, that 0
Gentleman had engaged" the coach on the surrey
side,ot Westminster-bridge, and had proceeded to
the turnpike-gate, when the CAtichman wanted him
to pay the turnpile, which was iod. ; the Gentle-
man suspected that the coach had been through the
gate belore, 'and refused to pay the impost, where-
upon he was turned out of the coach. On the es
amination, the 11:Adman's Auspicious were verified,'
and the coachman ordered• to pay a fine of 20s.
Which he refused to do, and was committed'w the
House of Correction for 14 days.