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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
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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
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