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t B r is tp l , Septi z o . S ir . For a series theTgenerosity o f the British Public has man.- nifested jitself in various ways; nor is this, character a ,little augmented from the con-*- sjderation that its bounty has often extended, to the sufferers of, distant nations, who, in. proportion to their exigencies,, have ever , found in the People o f England a heart to pity and a hand to relieve. ; ; Petmit me, through the medium of your- widely - extended Paper , to suggest to the ‘ friends o f humanity, in this Country , the propriety of opening a public subscription^ for the relief of the suffering Danes.,Various opinions have Been formed on the expedient- . lV i 1 . ■ ' " J cy of those measures which have brought s»; ^ heavy a calamity on the inhabitants of Co­ penhagen, but the present question is totally? independent of the reasonings of the politic cian., .v . r. * . ,, •' 4 •* • v. - ; • V- * fiere is a city with a population of hundred thpusand souls, rejoicing in their,, imagined security, at the very moment when, they axe; suddenly encompassed with fleet*.

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