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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. ......
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