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ling himself of the aid of the Danish marine,' for the invasion of Great Britain and of Ireland; Confident as his Majesty was of the' autheri-’ ticity of the sources from wich this iritelligeride was derived, arid confirmed iri the credit which hri gave to it, as well by "the Enemy, as by the poforous and repeated declarations of tlie Enemy,’ ; , and by his recent occupations of the towns and fiev- xitories of other neutral states, as by the prepa­ rations actually made for collecting ’ a hostile, force upon the frontiers of his Danish Majes­ ty’s cbiitinental dominions, his Majesty would yet willingly have forborne to act upon this intelli­ gence, until the complete and practical disclosure •of the plan had made manifest to all the world the absolute necessity 1 of resisting it. His Ma­ jesty did forbear,!as l'ring there could be a doubt of the urgehey of the danger, or a hope of the teffectual counteraction to it, in the means or' in the disposition of Denmark, : : v ' * But his Majesty COukl riot recollbct that when; at the close of the former war, the Court of Denmark, engaged •’ in a hostile' Confederacy' against Great Britain, the apology offered by .thiii 4 ’’ Court for so unjustifiable an abandonment of neutrality which his Majesty’ had never ceased, to respect was founded on its avowed inability to "resist the operations o f external influence,' and the threats of a! formidable neighbouring Power. His Majesty could riot but compare the degree' of influence,5 which ' at that time deter-