The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-06 00:00:00

No. 13,154.

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 134.

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BY THE AUTHOR OF CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE.'
Just completed, by the publication of the 3d, 4th, and sth vols.
D'ISRAELI'S COMMENTARIES
on the LIFE and REIGN of CHARLES I.

DANISH CLAIMS.

THE SWEDISH AMNESTY.

The King of Denmark has evinced the consideration for
the merchants of this country, of affording an ample detail
of the confiscation of British book debts and merchandise
in Denmark and Norway made in the year 1807, in reta-
liation for the detention of Danish property in the ports of
this country at that period, which produced the sum of
1,265,0001. to the droits of the Admiralty. The question be-
tween the two Governments, at various periods between
that and the present time, has regarded the liability of
Great Britain, having an admitted surplus in hand of pro-
perty thus confiscated, to make good the losses of British
subjects on the occasion ; but this was resisted by the Cas-
tlereagh Ministry on the plea that the confiscation of book
debts is contrary to the law of nations, and that Denmark,
having taken this illegal course, was bound to make com-
pensation to the sufferers by it. A commission has been
sitting for some time past in London to adjudicate on the
claims of British subjects on Denmark, and this question
being then revived for the consideration of the present Mi-

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nistr-y, the principle has at length been settled that the

book debts confiscated in 1807 shall be reimbursed
out of the balance in hand, of the legitimate acts of con-
fiscation between the two countries, which is said "to
6e considerably in favour of Great Britain. The difficulty,
however, then presented itself of obtaining sufficient proof
to satisfy the commission sitting on the. Danish claims,
which after so long an interval, and the proofs existing in a
foreign country, appeared to be nearly insurmountable.
The sum at stake, however, being very considerable—be-
tween 200,0001. and 300,0001.—the expedient suggested
. itself to the parties concerned of despatching a duly autho-
rized person to Copenhagen, who, by the personal interfer-
ence of the King, has obtained a correct list of the debts in
question, on which the claims to them may be established
without further impediment. The King of Denmark has
behaved in the most prompt and handsome manner on the
occasion, and is in the stronger degree entitled to the gra-
titude of all interested, from the circumstance that the dis-
closures were by no means palatable to a large class of
Danish subjects, who did all in their power to prevent this
boon being granted. The gentleman employed in this ser-
vice was Mr. Oliver Mason, who returned last night
(Tuesday) from Copenhagen, with the registers of the pro-
perty confiscated—an affair not only highly important to the
claimants, but extremely critical in point of time, as but a
few days longer remain for the presentation of claims to the
Commissioners appointed by the Treasury.

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A violent hurricane was felt at Lochearnhead, Perth-
shire, on the 24th ult, It blew from the north, and con-
tinued with unceasing fury from eight in the morning till
twelve o'clock noon, and during that time its ravages were
dreadful. Houses, in many places, were stripped of their
thatch to the timber ; trees were blown down, some had
their branches torn off, and others were broken over by the
middle of their large trunks. 'The effects of the storm were
terribly seen at Edinample Castle, possessed by G. A.
Campbell, Esq. Many of the largest trees which grew
around this ancient building—admired for their height and
beauty,•and supposed to be coeval with the building itself--
after withstanding the fury of many a winter storm, were
torn up by the roots. Some of these large trees were
blown over into Mr. Campbell's garden, and destroyed
every thing that stood within the reach of their large
branches. One of them was blown over a house, which
the slaters had finished only the previous day, and crushed
in part of its roof. During the continuance of the storm,
Lochearn was unusually agitated. Sometimes its whole
surface was obscured with the mist which the whirlwind
raised from the spray of its foaming waves, as if it were hid
by the close drift of a snow-storm ;at other times the spray
was raised like grey pyramids, hundreds of yards in height ;
and at last, driven before the storm, fell like rain at the
distance of a mile along the hills. The sun's rays shone on
these columns of mist, which were by the whirlwind raised
from the spray of the lake, and reflected all the colours of
a beautiful rainbow. The devastations of this hurricane
were more like those of the tornadoes of tropical climates,
than the usual high winds which are felt in this country,
and will long be remembered by the people at Lochearn-
head.—Edinburgh Advertiser.