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with child and those lately delivered, were driven from their houses and exposed a-new* to similar dangers. The streets were filled w ith dead or lacerated horses. But here I > must conclude, eve|y reader o f feeling w ill shudder at this melancholy picture, without wishing to see it finished. A t the end o f this period three hundred and five houses were burnt to the ground and one church 3). Many a‘ w ea lthy man was now reduced to beggary, and the finest store-houses in the World had been a prey the flames. The prospect o f the future was dreadful. Had the bombardment recom­ menced the next day, all would have been lost, and the total destruction o f Copenha­ gen and all that it contains must have been its unavoidable consequences. On the 7th Sept. at eleven o’clock in the morning the follow ing Capitulation was concluded 1 Articles o f Capitulation for the eity o f Copenhagen and its Citadel agreed upon be- twein Major General Waltersdorf, knight o f the order ©f Dannebroge, His Majest’ys