The Sun.
London, England, 1802-05-22 00:00:00

SATURI34Y, MAY 2z, 1802.

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD,
22Ci Of May, 1502,..
HIS MAJESTY haying-been pleased to appoint
NEXT THURSDAY, at One. o'Clock, to
tended with the All DRESS of this University, such 'Gen-
tlemen as in t,:lid_to accompany the Chancellor and Delegates
of time University upon that occasion, are desired to meet on
that Day. at Twelve o'Clock, at, the Thatched-house Tavern, in order to go in precession from thence 'to St,
James's Palace. • _

KOYAL WESTMINSTER, VOLUNTEERS,
King's Mews, May 13, 1802. •.
•
AT a MEETING oaf the ROYAL .WESTMIN-
STER VOLUNTE,ERS, assembled for 'the purpose
of being disembodied, conformably to a Circular Letter from
the Right Hon. Lord Hobart, dated .461,19, 180 z;,
Lieutenant-Colonel.Bl RC I-1, Officer Commanding;
The Corps having taken into their consideration the Ser-
vices of Colonel ROBERTSON, as their Commanders and
anxious to testify the high and grateful sense which they
entertain of his Public 4eal, . and meritorious Conduct; •
Resolved Unanimously,
That the most. cordial Thanks,- and the Most heartfelt
Acknowledgments, of the Royal Westminster Volunteers,
be,expressod to Colonel Robertson, for his unremitting at-.
teittion to the Interests and Discipline of the Corps; for his
determined support -of its J ndependence and Honour; for his
impartial, manly-and Officer-like Condua, so invariably
evinced by him as their Cominanding Officer, and for his
friend-ly assistance' at all times atfbrded, when oppdminity
offered, to every individual of the Corps.
ReSolyed,,That Lieut
,Col.. Birch, Captain Allen, Captain
Russell, Lieut. Tulloch,
_Lieut. Wellington, Ensign Ches-.
terton;Serjeant-Major Lambert, and Mr. Cragg, do wait of
Colonel 'Robertson, as a Deputation of the Corps, with the-
abol;t Resolution.

Resolved, That the same be signed by such Deputation,
and inserted in the following Papers, The 'Morning Adver-
tiser, Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, Morning Post,
the Times, the True Briton, the Sun, the Star, the Travel-
ler, the Weekly` Messenger, and the Observer.
Signed,
j. BIRCH, ALEX. WELLINGTON,
E. ALLEN, E DW. CH ESTE RTON,
ROBT. RUSSELL, B. LAMBERT, •
ALEX. TULLOIA, WM. CRAGG.

THIS Day being the,:-Anniversary of the AC.
TION otT COPENHkGEN on the zd April, 14301,
is plblished an AUTHENTIC PLAN of that -Glorious
Atckievernent, taken on the spot by ALEXANDER
BRIARLY, Master of His Majesty's ship Belloria, who
expliins the particulars of that Victory, and dedicates the
Wort to the British Nation in the following manner :
" This Plan of the Battle off Copenhagen will elucidaie
some particulars relative to that Aelion which are not yet
sufficiently understood, and, I think, proves beyond contra-
diaion, that the yielory gained by Lord Nelson off' Copen-
hagen, is the most brilliant and decisive of our Naval His-
tory. •

I was in the Affair of the t3th July, and likewise hid the
honout to be witness to the glbry of the Hero oft he Nile when
he took burnt and destroyed the greatest part of the French
Fleet off Aboukir-but the Battle of Copenhagen was as fin
superiot in points.of hard fighting and naval inanaxeinent to
the Battle. of the. Nile, as the Battle of the Nile•wAs to that
of the t3th July, or any other that has ever treen- fought ;
this cannot be denied, when it is known that the Squadron
under. Lord Nelson, took, burnt, Sunk and destroyed oil
Copenhagen, Seventeen Sail (being the whole Danish Lide
of Defence front north to south) in the face of their great add
Small Crown Batteries, the Citadel, the Walls of Copen-
hagen, the Lunette Quintus, and the Gun and Mortar Batte-
ries on the Island of Athack,. works for the most_elrt mount-
ed with battering forty-two anti•tivet-four tbs.
calibre, worked by fourteen to s;xteen thousand men, and
pouring shot and shells upon the British Squadron for more
than : four hours,, without intermission,--notwithstanding
which, there were of the Danes killed, wounded and taken
prisoners, more than the number of men carried into Adion in
the British Squadron against them, without taking into*the
account the Danes who were continually sent from the
shore on board their Ships, tali II the places of those killed
'during. the Adion.—The whole of the Danish Fleet being
thuttaken, and the smoke of the A.dion having passed away,
the tiritish Squadron became so fully exposed to the Batte-
ries, that it was a necessary measure to make the Danes cease
firing from the shore, or to burn the whole of their Fleet,
which would have enabled the British Squadron to getout of
the reach of their shot and shells, under cover of the conse-
quent smoke
.and,coufusiOn. •
" In this 'a'weful moment, Lord Nelson decided on writing
his ever memorable *Letter to the Princes Royal, who know-
ing the situation of his people, and seeing the humane dispo-
sition of the British Conqueror, complied with the terms.
Lord Nelson didate4 by ithmediately ordering the fire of the
Shore Batteries to cease, which not only confirmed a deciSive
Victory, but led. to the annihilation of Northern• Conf-
ederacy, that had before so formidably threatened the Rights
of-Great Britain.. _

" ,Had the Prince _Royal refused to comply with Lord
Nelson's demand, the whole of thet Prizes must have been
burnt, without the possibility of saving wept. the prisoners,upwards of Three Thousand of-vvliOM lay wounded on bOard
at this crisis: it was therefore to save those braKePanes, and
to prevent a further 'elfusir.4l,44.-biood- on both sides, that
Lord Nelson sent the Flag of Truce to the Punish Govern-
ment. •

" K 6 the ficil6tOti ‘9sllie only Ship sent home, the. Pub-•
lic may' have been led to believe that she was the only Ship
taken in this Aelian;..,but by reference to this Map, it will
be seen that the, Ship the. Danish Commander in Chief
blew uv after her Colours had been struck ; the Zealand, as
line a Seventy-four as ever swam, the Infrodstreten a new
Sixty-four, 'with four other Ships of the Line, together with
all the Floating Batteries, were burnt some days after the
Engagement, by order of Sir Hyde Parker, the Commander in
Chief,. tor he purpose, as was repotted, that the future
operationi of the Fleet should not be impWed•by 'the care of
PrizeS;P!

" At'ter these explanations, I 'doubt not but the World
will acknowledge I am fully justified in declaring the Is-attle
of Copenhagen to be the most brilliant Vi6tory of our naval
annals, and that Lord Nelson had completely atchieved it
before he offered the ArmiStice. • ;

Under these iaipressions, this Plan of the Battle of Co-
Ferduseii is dedicated to the British Nation,
" By their most obedient and
' " Yery humble Servant,
• -4‘ A. BRIARLY,
" Master ofthe Bdlona in the
_ _

" Battle of eopenhagep."
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