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duty is a . trefspais, the consequences o f
which would be very serious.
On the 4th September Major - General
Strieker
, Commandant o f the fortress of
Cronborg, invited all the foreign troops*
chiefly the Hanoverians, who landed irt
the island of Zealand, by the following
Proclamation: W hat injury has been
dene to you, your nation or your Govern
ment by our peaceable country? This court*
try which believed or imagined itself to bd
in peace with all the w o rld? Your Comman
ders have proclaimed that they come to us
as friends, although they act against us like
our worst enemies, disdaining the law of
nations and exercising hostilities, which we
never could expect o f civilized nations*
T h e y consider already our country as a
conquest, altough they never w ill sub
jugate it.
The Inhabitants o f this Island
w ill defend themselves like lions in their
dens. Not y ou , but your government w ill
be to blame for such a treachery, the con
sequences o f which, sodn dr laterj Will fall