The Sun.
London, England, 1807-09-24 00:00:00

F 170.1.7 171 E 'FRE2VCI.I PiaiERP.

Jliiptitazr of tO.day con-•.
tains the following remarks, by a Dane, upon the
Proclamations isstied'by the Land and Sea. OtfieerS
of,the. King of GREAT IttVOIN, in theUtic ;,
" The objedtion that, under-the Preseilt: eitlitt-
stances, it is impossible for. Denmark to refliin ter
neutrality, is answered by this questioullow have
the English Ministers, proved this impassibility !
When in 1803 England deprived the world of peace,
had Denmark no army in Holstein ? and 'did not
banish blood flow at'the 'tittle when the events_t:f
the last war-brought foreign troopS' to' the D.ini'sh
frontier. We, D3L16., have thas proved with our
blood.otir determination to remain neutral. But you,
when the two greakA Powers in the w'orld found
peace-on the Banks df the Niemen', with yew' ac-
custoMed machiaveliaitr m, b' the presence of your
troops, wished to excite th.l King of S‘'veinti to ref'
open the theatre of war in ,the neighbourhood of
Holstein., thus to decoy tile Danish troops from
Zealand. to consequence of treachery of this na-
ture, you have surrounded Zealand
WA.] yobi whole
force, eve'ii before the Crown Prince was aware cif
your punic or perndious mode of thinking.
" A 4 to your saying that the Danes heartilY Wish
to preserve their neutrality, the English Ministers
themselves acknowledge that we did not entertain
the least hostility against England. So far is can- •
did; but France was net so well treated, when in
1303 the same Ministers accused her of fitting out
great naval Expeditions against England, which no-
body ever saw.
" As to what,the Proclamations say of the ne •
-
cessity of residing Franco, in behalf of all the
Powers of Europe, you manifestly abuse terms, if
the King of SICILY is' included amongst these-
Powers ; that King whose Country you wenn() de-
fend in Egypt ! Beckon not upon the King of SWE-
DEN, *boat you at first forced into the wlll-, and
afterwards abandoned., He is the last person in the
North who will agree with you respeOing the free-
dom 'of the seas ; and neither he nor his people will
ever forget, that the flags of Dentnnrk and Sweden
should form but one end the same' fleet.

" As to the pretext that Fiance intended 'to make
herself master of the Danish navy, why did you not
inform us how this was to pave been edeeted ?
WhateVer may be within the power and interest of
your gold; it will never be able to purchase those to
whom NAroutok has confided- his secrets. Your
newspapers have often placed French armies in Hal-.
steih, and your Ministers and Consuls have perhapi
transmitted to yOu even the march.routes '; but all
ilii3 while NAPOLEON has never violated Denmark,
or afforded her the lea St. reason to complain of him.
The Danes admire him witliOdt fear. Was it pOs-
sibte we could have been attacked in our Islands by
a ewer force than that yoti have sent against us ?
Though wholly taken by surprise, you rind we shall
net be .cotiettered without resistance; though 'we
knew you could rob us of half the property we have
at sea'; though we knew you could lay our fleet and
out capital in asheS,-and that I o,ooofOf our peamcn
would inevitably -become your prisoners belire they
could even • suspea. that you are' at war with us-
How,then could' you imagine that .we should not
have resisted the Continental Powers, had we been
attacked by them ? Does not all Europe, do not you
yourselveslnow-our august Prince better?
" As to the justice; ot.seizing our marine, what
morality is this ? The appearance of juoticc is suffi-
cient for you, and yet you pretend to be champions
of ancient faith and chivalrous honour.

" With reap eet to the necessity of taking posses-
sion of the Danish navy; you will make no one be-
lieve that such necessity -.exists. Even supposing
Zealand in danger, why did you not content your-
selves' simply with sending a fleet, which in all pos.!. •
sible cases might have defended the Island till the
land forces should arrive ? You have proved to the
world, that when yOu have an Expedition earnestly
in view; you do not wait so long as you compelled
the Prussians; he Swedes, and the Russians to wait.
If what you suffered at Constantinople has taught
you never to send out a fleet anv more without land
forces, why did ybu not, according to the plan of
your late Ministers, listen to the request of the King
of SWEDEN, in, Oolobur last, -and send an army of
observation into Sarnia.. The object you hold out,
is nit the real object. You wish to carry on your
piratical practices. without interruption, and • there-
fore you wish to burn those ships, which, some
time or other, • might transport the vengeance of
the Continent to your own coasts.

" You say it is not in the power of Denmark to'
save herself. I lad we been iu real danger, it would-
have been consistent with your Government to have
otfered its assistance.; Your Ministers, OH
of august, received the offer of the Russians to Me-
diate for a, peace. You pretended to negociate upon:
the Aubjc4, and on the 1 ath you declared a new
war. Nothing could have happened more conveni-
ent for you, than to have obtained from NAPOLEON
the continuation of the neutrality of Denmark, as a
condition for opening a pacific negociation. But-
instead of even malcing.the experiment, your Mini-
sters, on ,the itith, commenced a war', with us, who:
are of the same extraction,,, as yourselves; with us,
who ever since the dark ages (that is upwards of
500 years), have been continually-at peace with you;
with us, against whom you have no pretext for corn-
plaint ; with us, whose independence, in, come
-
(pence. of the 'peal position of Zealand, is almost as
essential to paw . interests as to our own ; with. us,
whose ports are almost the only ports that are open
to the British Rag. As to any Compromise whatever,'
it would be scandalous. Honour only is the watch-
word ofour Prince. . Many of us will pay the price
of that word with their, blood ; many, with their
property; all of. o's, with a part,of our fortunes;
but there is none among Os base enough not to bless
our Prince, who would
,Only listen to the voice Of
honour. ,

"'RelativeJo, your. menaces,, it is granted you .may
every where
,spread terror and distress. The first
bombs , thrown from your vei3t.ls in the, mid of
Copenhagen,.. may destroy the, hoipital fur, females,
and that of the womvn tOunde.d by FRE-
OttlitC,K. There they may, tall among hundreds of
h1.61:11i ; the W,eLlk may be damn from their beds ;
the sick nay or wounded,. These, your
deeds of L',eroisin, my b:1 worthy a FiLIIOSTRA,
TUS.

Aq. to the emel mentione4 in the Pro-
clanist:on, and it, w,. !A I)anesar.i!"3opposcl to
have listened, it asl(edi whethru. an angel from

•
11,-..a4e0 could titivisei the P:itt:t. 10 tkity
other way.- . . •
" the Dines being O'reatened with rigour if they
Lio not coniply with the , measures • of tlte'Eti;;iap(r,
we reply,. we have h:en unjustly- attaelie.t. You
tna)r_kilt "many ; you in,ty plunder more ; you may
annihilate numbers ; but remember, there is still
something you cannot
" Lastly, the advice which the- Prociamatioti
offers, vii;to listen to the voice of prudence, is thus
answered -Englishmen, it is incumbent on yon,
and you only,'4o listen' to the voice of prudence;
otherwise, thellahie that you have kindled in Zoo.:
land will extend over the seas, like-the Greek fire)
unextinguishable, till it reaches 'your Isl:uids, ties
vour Vleets, and avenges the 'cause of oppressed fia