No. 2. HIS Royal Highnefs the Prince Royal of Denmark has fent me, General Adjutant Lindholm, on board to his Britannic Majefty's Vice-admiral the Right Hon. Lord Nelfon, to ask the particular object of fending the flag of truce. No. 3. Lord Nelfon's Anfwer. LORD Nelfon's object in sending the flag of truce, was humanity: he therefore confents that hoftilities fhall ceafe, and that the wounded Danes may be taken on shore; and Lord Nelson will take his prifoners out of the veffels, and burn or carry off his prizes, as he fhall think fit. Lord Nelfon, with humble duty to his Royal Highness the Prince of Denmark, will confider this the greatest victory he ever gained, if it may be the cause of a happy reconciliation and union between his own mof gracious Sovereign and his Majesty the King of Denmark. (Signed) NELSON AND BRONTE. On board his Majesty's Ship Elephant, Copenhagen Roads, April 2, 1801. Notification published at the Exchange of Hamburgh, April 3. WHEREAS his Majefty the King of Denmark and Norway has found it neceffary, for the topping of the British navigation and trade on the Elbe, to take poffeffion, for a time, of the free and Imperial city of Hamburgh, by the troops under the command of his Highnefs General Field-marthal Prince Charles, Landgrave of Heffe, and has required, that from the 1ft of April an embargo fhall attach upon all British property, whether thips, commodities, or any other; it is hereby ordered, by confent of the council and citizens, that all perfons fhall detain fuch property, and notice will immediately be given to all merchants, captains, &c. of the time, place, and manner in which it fhall be delivered up. Given in council, April 3, 1801. Convention Convention concluded on the 3d April 1801, between the Regency of Hanover and the Envoys of his Majesty the King of Pruffia. HIS Majefty the King of Pruffia having caufed to be communicated to us, by the Count de Schulembourg, general of cavalry, minifter of state, of war, and of the cabinet, and his envoy here, a declaration, written and dated at Berlin, on the 30th of March 1801, refpecting the measures which his faid Majetty has refolved to purfue in regard to the German states belonging to his Majefty the King of Great Britain and Ireland, our most gracious fovereign, in his quality of Elector of Brunfwick and Lunenbourg: his Pruffian Majesty having besides invited us repeatedly, and in a pofitive manner, to conform to the present circumstances, to enter without delay into the new engagements which he has propofed, and for that purpose to draw up a convention in the moft obligatory form, otherwife his faid Majesty. would find himself obliged to treat in a hostile manner the German ftates of the King, our moft gracious fovereign: we have, agreeably to circumftances, promifed and declared as follows: The entrance of the Pruffian troops into the German states of his Britannic Majefty fhall take place without their experiencing any refiftance, in the hopes, however, that the number will be diminished as much as pollible, to eafe the country and the inhabitants: they shall confequently obferve, in their full extent, all ́ the ordinances and difpofitions of his Pruffian Majesty, both in regard to the entry of his troops and to the electoral ftates. The Hanoverian troops, which have hitherto been employed in the army on the line of demarcation in the north of Germany, fhall be difbanded, as well as a proportionate number of the other troops of the Electorate. The regency of this country, the commander in chief, and the different officers of thefe troops, fhall engage not to employ the faid troops, nor to fuffer them to ferve against his faid Pruflian Majefty, but to make them ftrictly obferve the royal ordinances, according to the different measures which it may be neceffary to purfue. The faid troops fhall be distributed in the cities of Hanover, Lunebourg, Gisborn, Welzen, and in the places and garrifons on the right of the Leine, on the left of the Aller, and behind the Luhe, as far as the Elbe. All the other places, without exception, comprehending the fortrefs of Hamela, fhall be evacuated and delivered up to the Pruffian troops. Particular measures fhall be taken that all deliveries in kind fhall be made by the faid country of Hanover, dating from the 1ft of May this year. In regard to whatever concerns the adminiftration of this state, nothing fhall be undertaken prejudicial to the present difpofitions and engagements; on the contrary, the ftatutes and orders of the King, in regard to them, fhall be punctually obferved. For these reasons, we here accept, in the moft folemn manner, the fupreme promife made by his Pruffian Majefty, that he will guaranty to the German ftates of his Britannic Majefty, their VOL. XI. Kk ancient ancient conftitution, their fafety, and their repofe; and that all their property and poffeffions thall be protected by every means poffible. Done at Hanover, the 3d of April 1801. (Signed) COUNT DE KILMANNSEGGE. DE STEINBERG. DE DECKEN. DE WALMODEN. SIMBORN, Field-marfhal. Copy and Tranflation of a Letter from the Royal College of Commerce at Copenhagen, dated the 4th of April 1801, to Muldrup and Salvefon, his Danish Majefty's Confuls for Scotland, refiding in Leith. Gentlemen, WE judge it neceffary to make you acquainted with the actual fituation of our affairs, as well for your government as for the information of thofe of our nation who may be at prefent in your confulage district. You must have heard that a British fleet of 54 fail, under command of Admirals Sir Hyde Parker and Lord Nelfon, had proceeded to the ftraits of the Sound, with an intention to enter the Baltic. The fleet actually appeared, and having advanced towards Cronberg, Admiral Parker declared to the commandant that hoftilities would commence; upon which the fleet began to pafs the fortrefs on the 30th of March, expofed to an obftinate fire from our batteries, which was returned with equal fpirit, but without material damage to either party, as the fleet kept so close to the Swedish fide that it was with difficulty our balls could reach them. After having cleared the ftraits, the British formed themfelves in a line, in fight of our floating batteries and the fhips placed for our defence at the entrance of our port. There they remained tranquil until the evening of the 1ft inftant, when they affumed a more threatening pofition. On the following day (2d April) at half paft ten o'clock in the morning, the most bloody and obftinate engagement took place in our roads that has ever been remembered. Our failors have gained themselves honour and glory, and if the force of defence had been equal to that of the attack, the fuccefs would have been doubtful; but, after five hours fighting, the most part of our crews were either killed or wounded, the fhips much fhattered, and the floating batteries difmounted; fo that it became at laft neceffary to yield to fuperior force, at leaft triple to that which we could employ at the point of defence. The right wing of our defence was broken through by Nelfon's fquadron; fome of our floating batteries and fhips of inferior fize have fallen into the hands of the enemy. Before the engagement engagement had feriously commenced with the fleet under Admiral Parker's orders, Nelfon fent a flag of truce to propofe a fufpenfion of hoftilities, in order to tranfport the wounded on thore, which was agreed to; and the fufpenfion of arms has been prolonged, and hoftilities have not yet recommenced. Nelfon was on fhore yesterday, and a negotiation is at present going forward, and every thing for the moment tranquil. We do not know precifely how much the enemy have fuffered, nor the number of their flain; but, according to information from fome of their officers, their ships have been confiderably damaged, and their lofs of men very numerous. This, Gentlemen, is the refult of a day ever memorable to Denmark, and honourable for the intrepidity and bravery of our warriors, whose conduct even the enemy has allowed to have been most glorious. Make thefe facts known to their countrymen, and inform them at the fame time, that we fhall not fail to acquaint them of the ultimate refult of thefe events. Ukafes published by the Emperor Alexander of Ruffia shortly after his Acceffion to the Throne, prior to the 7th of April 1801. IT is ordered by us, that the British failors and mafters that were taken from the feveral Britifh fhips in a, ftaté of fequeftration, and fent to various towns throughout our dominions, fhall be fet at liberty, and carefully conducted to the feveral ports from whence they were taken, (Signed) ALEXANDER. AS we wish to afford our faithful fubjects all means of extending their trade, which is the fource of profperity, as well for the ftate as individuals; we order, that all the prohibitions hitherto made against the exportation of corn fhall be removed; and we permit the exportation of all kinds of grain, conformably to the principles of the Tariff of 1797. (Signed) ALEXANDER. Conditions of the Convention for a Ceffation of Arms, concluded between equally equally induced by fentiments of humanity to put a stop to the effufion of blood, and preferve the city of Copenhagen from the calamitous confequences of the continuation of hostilities, have mutually agreed to a ceffation of arms. With this view his Majefty the King of Denmark has ap pointed Major-general Erneftus Frederic Wattersdorf, chamberlain to his Danish Majefty, and colonel of a regiment, and Adjutant-general Hans Lindholm, as commiffioners to conclude this armiftice; and Admiral Sir Hyde Parker has, on his part, appointed Lord Horatio Nelson, knight of the order of the Bath, duke of Bronti in Sicily, grand cross of the orders of Ferdinand and Merit, and knight of the Auftrian order of the Crefcent, vice-admiral of the fleet of his Britannic Majefty; and allo Lieutenant-colonel William Stewart, commander of a detachment of land troops on board the fleet; which commiffioners have this day met, and, after exchanging their full powers, agreed to the following conditions: Article I. From the moment of the figning of this armistice all hoftilities fhall ceafe between the fleet under the command of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker and the city of Copenhagen, and all the armed fhips and veffels belonging to his Danish Majefty, which fhall be found in the road or harbour of that uity; as alfo between the different provinces and islands of Denmark, Jutland included. II. The armed fhips and veffels of his Danish Majefty shall remain in their prefent condition, with refpect to the manner in which they are armed, and manner as to their military position; and the treaty, known by the name of the Treaty of the Armed Neutrality, fhall, fo far as concerns the active co-operation of Denmark, remain fufpended, so long as this armistice fhall contiune in force. On the other hand, armed fhips and veffels under the command of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, fhall in no manner whatever difturb the city of Copenhagen, or the armed fhips and vessels of his Danish Majefty, or the coafts of the different islands and provinces of Denmark, Jutland included; and, in order to prevent every thing which may create difturbance or fufpicion, Admiral Sir Hyde Parker fhall on no account permit any ship or vessel under his command to approach within cannon fhot of the armed fhips or fortifications of his Danith Majefty in the Road of Copenhagen. This limitation thall, however, not extend to the Thips which must neceffarily pafs and repafs through the King's Sound. III. This armistice fhall fecure the city of Copenhagen, as also the coafts of Denmark, Jutland, and the iflands, against the attack of any other fleet of war, which now, or hereafter, during the continuance of this armiftice, may be fent by his Britannic Majefty into these seas. + |