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ployed with advantage, for our common
defence, be provided with arms, and we
shall with energy repel our enemy, who
imagines himself capable o f dictating igno
minious laws to a brave and noble nation.14
Frequent skirmishing took daily place
between the advanee-posts of the british
and danishttoops without succefs on either
side
Sept. 2 the Commanders o f the bri-
.
..
fish forces summoned for the last time
General Peymann to surrender the danish
ships of the line on the before mentioned
conditions and in an amicable manner, de
claring, that the horrors o f a bombardment
would be the immediate consequences o f
a
refusal, and that it must tall on the head o f •
those, in whose power it was to avert the
evil by a single word.
The Commandant
persisting in his refusal, a bombardment,
which had been prepaiing for three weeks,
was now inevitable, but unacquainted with
its dreadful consequences, the most part o f
the inhabitants were not much in dread o f
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