AccountOfTheSiegeBombardmentOfCopenhagen

it; a great many of them even fancied, that the threatening« o f the English would never be carried into effect. It is with the utmost grief, that I am going to describe the horrible scenes, which the bombardment of Copenhagen has offered. 1 know very well, that si­ milar horrors are unfortunately the un­ avoidable consequences o f war — but no man is master o f his feelings, -especially in the first transports of his grief. Shame to the world, I said to myself, when about se­ ven and a half in the evening I heard the thunder of the mortars breaking out, and saw a large rocket flying like an arrow through the streets and killing in its way a poor innocent child, who stood at a win­ dow opposite to my house. O ! Britain! I cried out in despair — Queen o f nations'! Mother of such noble and manly sons! is this thy Work? — The confusion was now general. People run anxiously through the streets; the mother to her children, the fa­ ther to his family and every man on duty to