chief in command, in a most advantageous and formidable pofition. The citizens of Copenhagen in a moment flew to their pofts; all diftinctions were loft' in the love of their country. Nobles and mechanics, gentlemen and shopmen rushed together in crowds to the quays, the fick crawled out of their beds, and the very lame were led to the fea fide imploring to be taken in the boats, which were perpetually going off with crowds to the block ships. A carnage at once tremendous and novel only ferved to encrease their enthusiasm. What an awful moment! The invoked vengeance of the British nation, with the fury and velocity of lightning, was falling with terrible defolation upon a race of gallant people, in their very capital, whose kings were once feated upon the throne of England, and in the veins of whole magnanimous Prince flowed the blood of her auguft family. Nature must have fhuddered as the contemplated fuch a war of brethren; the conflict was fhort but fanguinary beyond example; in the midst of the flaughter the heroic Nelion dispatched a flag of truce on thore with a note to the Crown Prince, in which he expreffed a wish that a top hould be put to the further effusion of human blood, and to avert the destruction of the Danish arsenal and of the capital, which he observed that the Danes must then fee were at his mercy. He once more propofed their withdrawing from the triple league, and acknowledging the fupremacy of the British flag. As foon as the Prince's anfwer was received a cellation of hoftilities took place, and Lord Nelfon left his fhip to go on fhore. Upon his arrival at the quay he found a carriage which had been fent for him by Mr. D. a merchant of high refpectability, the confufion being too great to enable the Prince to fend one of the royal carriages; in the former the gallant admiral proceeded to the palace in the octagon, through crowds of people, whofe fury was rifing to frenzy, and amongst whom his perfon was in more imminent danger than even from the cannon of the block ships; but nothing could shake the foul of fuch a man. Arrived at the palace in the octagon he calmly descended from the carriage amidst the murmurs and groans of the enraged concourse, which not even the presence of the Danith officers who accompanied him could reftrain. The Crown Prince received him in the hall and conducted him up ftairs, and prefented him to the king, whofe long shattered fate of mind had left him but very little fenfibility to display upon the trying occafion. The objects of this impreffive interview were foon adjufted, to the perfect fatisfaction of Lord Nelfon and his applauding country; that done, he affumed the gaiety and good humour of a vifitor, and partook of fome refreshment with the Crown Prince.

During the repaft Lord Nelfon fpoke in raptures of the bravery of the Danes, and particularly requested the Prince to introduce him to a very young officer, whom he defcribed as having performed wonders during the battle, attacking his own fhip immediately under her lower guns. It provel to be the gallant young Welmoes, a ftripling of feventeen; the British hep embraced him with the enthufiafm of a brother, and delicately intimated o the Prince that he ought to make him an admiral, to which the Prince vey happily replied, If my Lord, I were to make all my brave officers admirds, I fhould have no captains or lieutenants in my fervice.' This heroic youth had volunteered the command of a praam, which is a fort of raft carrying fix fmall cannon, and manned with twenty four men, who pushed off rom fhore, and in the fury of the battle placed themselves under the fren of Lord Nelion's fhip, which they moft fuccessfully attacked, in fuch a manner that although they were below the reach of his ftern chafers, the Fritish

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mariners made terrible flaughter amongst them; twenty of thefe gallant men fell by their bullets, but their young commander continued knee-deep in dead at his poft, until the truce was announced. He has been honoured, as he most eminently deferved to be, with the grateful remembrance of his country and of his prince, who, as a mark of his regard prefented him with a medallion commemorative of his gallantry, and has appointed him to the command of his yacht in which he makes his annual vifit to Holftein. The iffue of this contest was glorious and decifive; could it be otherwise, when its deftinies were committed to Nelfon ?"

The tribute of juftice here paid to the gallantry of a brave enemy is highly creditable to the author's feelings. Such nations as the English and the Danes may differ and may quarrel, but, left to themfelves, they will not, on that account, cease to esteem, and to render justice, each to the other.

In the grounds of a country feat belonging to an opulent Danish merchant, Mr. Carr difcovered a retired fpot which had been the refidence of a fingular kind of hermit, a Dutch officer, who quitting the court and the camp, in early life, paffed many years in a fmall cell, till recalled to the fervice of his country, he obeyed the fummons of his prince, and fell at the head of his regiment. Previous to his departure from his favourite retreat, this extraordinary man compofed an elegant farewel to the furrounding fcenery, which has been as elegantly translated by Mr. Leigh Hunt.

Vain would life's pilgrim, ling'ring on his way,
Snatch the short refpite of a fummer's day;
Pale forrow, bending o'er his fad repofe,
Still finds a tear in every fhelt'ring rofe:

Still breaks his dream, and leads th' unwilling flave
To
weep, and wander to a distant grave.

E'en he, whofe fteps fince life's ungenial morn
Have found no path unfretted with rude thorn;
From all he lov'd muft turn his looks away,
Far, far from thee, fair Dronningaard, muft ftray,
Muft leave the Eden of his fancy's dreams,
Its twilight groves and long refounding ftreams;
Streams where the tears of fond regret have ran,
And back return to forrow and to man!,

O yet once more, ye groves, your fighs repeat
And bid farewell to thefe reluctant feet;
Once more arile thou foft thou foothing wave,
In weeping murmurs, 'ere I feek my grave;
Ere yet
thousand focial ills I fhare,
Confuming war and more confuming care,
Pleafures that ill conceal their future pains,
Virtue in want, bleft liberty in chains,
Vice-proud and powerful as the winter's wind,
And all the dire deliriums of mankind.

Yet e'en this heart may hail its rest to come;
Sorrow, thy reign is ended in the tomb !
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There close the eyes, that wept their fires. away;
There drop the hands that clafp'd to mourn and pray;
There fleeps the restleffness of aching hearts;
There love, the tyrant, buries all his darts!

O grant me, heaven, thus fweetly to repofe!
'Tis thus my foul thall trimuph o'er its woes;
Spring from the world, nor drop one painful tear
On all it leaves, on all it treasures here;

Save once, perhaps, when penfive moonlight gleams
O'er Dronningaard's meek fhades and murmuring streams,
The facred grief, to dear remembrance true,
O'er her foft flow'rs may fhed its gent'left dew,
May once in founds, that foothe the fuff'ring mind,
Breathe its lorn murmurs through the folemn wind;
Lament, sweet spot, thy charms muft withered be,
And linger e'en from heaven to figh for thee!

In line 13, the perfect tense of the verb to run is fubftituted for the participle: an error but too common in modern poetry, though greatly tranfgreffing all the bounds of poetical licence..i

Of the capital of Sweden, our author gives his readers an interesting account, and he truly reprefents the Swedes as a brave and loyal people. The King being abfent at this time, many enquiries were made after him by the peafantry, the caufe of which our traveller did not rightly understand till his arrival at Stockholm.

"The people of Sweden had not been gladdened with the presence of their young fovereign and his beautiful queen, to whom they are devotedly and defervedly attached, for a long space of time, during which the court had been removed to the territory of the prince of Baden, the father of the queen of Sweden. The effect of fuch an abfence was felt and deplored every where. No doubt the virtuous fuggeftions of his own heart will speedily restore the king to his people, and another traveller will have the gratification which was denied me, of feeing him in the bofom of his country, where a prince always appears to the most advantage. The king is faid to poffefs a very amiable mind, and to regard the memory of his illuftrious father with enthufiaftic adoration; I contemplated a powerful proof of it in an obelisk of one folid block of porphyry, forty feet high, which is at once a monument of his tafte and piety. I fhould not be doing juftice to the king, were I not to mention the abhorrence which he, in common with his fubjects, has manifested at the cold-blooded outrage committed against the person of the devoted duke d'Enghein."

If the Pruffians and their monarch had so felt, we should have better hopes of an attempt to refcue the enflaved Continent of Europe, from the hands of this bafe ufurper and ferocious affaffin, than we now have. But hiftory will amply vindicate the 'caufe of justice and humanity, and will not fail to render full justice to these contemporary fovereigns.

The friendship which the laft King of Sweden, the gallant Gu!tavus the Third, who fell a victim to the rage of a regicide, entertained for the equally gallant hero of Acra, whofe name the hiftoric

mufe

mufe will immortalize, affords the author an opportunity of introducing an anecdote of the latter which is new to us, and may, probably, be equally fo to our readers.

"As Sir Sidney is one of my favourite heroes, I will run the hazard of being blamed for deviating from my na rative a little, and for detaining the reader an extra moment to relate a fingular prepoffeffion he felt, when a youth, of his fame, and the theatre of his future glory, which has just occurred to my memory. Being fent, fome years fince, on fh re upon the Irish coaft with a brother officer, who is now holding a defervedly high fituation in the service, to look for some deferiers from their fhip, after a long, fatiguing, and fruit fs purfuit, they halted at a little inn to refresh themfeves; having dined, Sir Sidney, on a fudden became filent, and seemed loft in meditation : "" My dirk for your thoughts," exclaimed his friend, gently tapping him on the fhoulder; what project, Sidney, has got poffeffion of you now?" My good fellow," replied the young warrior, his expreffive countenance brightening as he spoke, "you will no do bt suppofe me a little difordered in my mind, but I have been thinking that, before twelve years thall have rolled over my head, I fhall make the British arms triumphant in the Holy Land," We need not knock at the cabinet door of St. Cloud to know how fplendidly this prediction was verified."

In failing up the Baltic from Stockholm, to the capital of Swedish Finland, in one of the fmall veffels of the country, our traveller witneffed an operation which may give fome idea of the manners of the lower claffes of people in Sweden.

"One morning as I was looking over the deck from the ftern, I beheld an operation fomewhat ridiculous; but as it originated in rude notions of cleanliness, and moreover is one of the domestic customs of the country, I fball relate it. Our fkipper was lying at the feet of a good-natured brawny girl, who was a paifenger; his head was on her lap, juft as Goliah fome time fince refted his in that of Delilah; but the fingers of our fair companion were more kindly employed than were thofe of the woman of the valley of Sorek: the skipper had no comb, perhaps never heard of such a thing, and this kind-hearted creature was feduloufly configning with a humane, becaute an instantaneous destruction of fenfation in every vital part by an equal and forcible preffure, every restless disturber of his peace in that region, which moft affuredly must be, though doctors may difpute the point, the feat of reafon; the carin-boy fucceeded his mafter, and in return, with the keen eye and nimble finger of a monkey, gratefully repaid the obligation upon the head of his benefactrefs. In Italy, thefe engaging litle of fices of kindnef, conftitute the principal delights of courtship.

From hence our author proceeded through Ruffian Finland to the capital of that vaft empire. They there compute their time by the Julian calendar with the old ftyle; but, as our author pertinently remarks; both old and new ftyle are fuperior to the poetical abfurdity of the French calendar, which must be at perpetual variance with the immutable law of climates and Geography: for inftance, when a merchant is melting away under the fiery fun of the French West India islands, his correfpondence will be dated Nivose, or the

month of snow." This confideration, of course, escaped the notice of those revolutionary philosophers who framed the new Jacobin calendar; but, in truth, a Frenchman never looks beyond his own country, and, while his ignorance of all other countries is complete, he never thinks that any thing out of France is worthy his attention.

On his arrival at Frederickshham Mr. Carr had the first specimen of that Ruffian hofpitality which he fo frequently experiences during his short refidence in that country. It was late at night, and no admittance was to be gained at an inn.

"We had been travelling all day under a fervid fun, were covered with duft and parched with thirft; our Abo ham was glowing to the bone, our laft bottle of claret was as warm as milk from the cow, and our poor exhaufted horfes were licking the walls of an adjoining building to cool their tongues. In this dilemma I beheld an elegant young officer, uncovered, in a dark bottle-green uniform the (legionary colour of Ruffia), and an elderly gentleman, upon whose breast two refplendent ftars fhone, coming towards us thefe ftars were two propitious conftellations. The principal perfonage addressed us in a very kind and conciliatory manner in French. Upon our explaining our fituation, he faid, I am very forry this fellow is out of the way, but it shall make no difference. When Englishmen enter Ruffia it is to experience hospitality, not inconvenience: truft to me, I will immediately provide for you:' he bowed, gave directions to an officer who followed at a distance and paffed on. This amiable man proved to be the Count Meriandoff, the Governor of Ruffian Finland, who fortunately for us, had arrived about an hour before from Wibourg. An officer soon afterwards came to us, and conducted us to a very handsome house belonging to a Ruffian gentleman of fortune. Our kind hoft, who spoke a little English, introduced us into a fpacious drawing-room, where we went to rest upon two delightful beds, which were mounted upon chairs. Our poor fervant, after the manner of the Ruffians, ranked no higher in our hoft's estimation than a faithful maftiff, and was left to make a bed of our great coats on the floor of the entry, and to fleep comme il plait à Dieu.

Our traveller's description of Petersburgh, and of the customs and manners of its inhabitants, conveys a more accurate idea of the place and people than any former account which has fallen under our cognizance. Some parts of this defcription we fhall extract: the fcene of the following exhibition was the fummer gardens on the banks of the Neva.

"A young officer of the Imperial guards approached one of them and kiffed her hand, and, as he raised his head, the lady kiffed his cheek: it is the cuftom in Ruffia. Is it poffible, thought I, that this fpot, in no very diftant day, owned a Swedish mafter. Can a little paltry bridge make all this difference between the belles of the two countries? But I will leave this

point undecided. Be it as it may, the falutation was the most graceful I ever witneffed, it was politeness, improved by the moft charming gallantrybows, curtes, and falams, are icicles to it. Whilft France furnishes us with caps and bonnets, and Egypt with dufky fide-boards, may the Ruffians fix the universal mode of friendly meeting between the fexes for ever and for ever!

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