AccountOfTheSiegeBombardmentOfCopenhagen

mild sceptre, under Providence, is swayed over an united, brave and faithful people, the Danish Govern­ ment flatters itself that it will be able to acquit itself without weaktiefs, of the hard and painful task which has been imposed upon it by necessity. The Govern­ ment of Denmark believes it has a right to reckon upon the interest and justice of the Cabinets of Eu­ rope, and they particularly hope for the effects of the same on the part of those illustrious Sovereigns, whose objecfts and alliances have served the English for a pre­ text, and to give .a colour to the most crying aCt of in­ justice, and whose objedt is to offer England the means of a general atonement for an aCt of violence, which, even in England, every noble and generous mind will disown; which deforms the character of a virtuous Sovereign, and will ever remain a scandal in the an­ nals of Great Britain. ...... 48