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Done at Copenhagen, this 7th day of September, 1807. (Signed) ARTHUR WELLESLEY. HOME POPHAM. GEORGE MURRAY.

Ratifié par moi,
(Signée) PEYMAUN.

Dispatch from Admiral Gambier, Commander-in-chief of his Majes ty's Ships and Vessels in the Baltic;

oddressed to the Hon. William Wellesley Pole, Secretary to the Admiralty; dated Prince of Wales, in Copenhagen Road, 7th September, 1807.

SIR,

The communications which I have already had the honour to transmit to you, will have made the lords commissioners of the admi. rally acquainted with the proceedings of the fleet under my command down to the 2d instant; I have now to add, that the mortar batteries which have been erected by the army in the several positions they had taken round Copenhagen, together with the bomb-vessels, which were placed in convenient situations, began the bombardment in the morning of that day, with such power and effect, that in a short time the town was set on fire, and by the repeated discharges of our artillery, was kept in flames in dif. ferent places till the evening of the 5th; when a considerable part of it being consumed, and the conflagra. tion having arrived at a great height, threatening the speedy destruction of the whole city, the general commanding the garrison sent out a flag of truce, desiring an armis tice, to afford time to treat for a capitulation. After some correspon. dence had passed between the Da

nish general and lord Cathcart, and myself, certain articles were agreed upon, of which I have the honour to transmit you a copy. From these their lordships will perceive, that all the Danish ships and vessels of war (of which I inclose a list), with the stores in the arsenal, were to be delivered up to such persons as should be appointed to receive them on the part of his majesty. I ac. cordingly appointed sir Home Popham for this purpose; and having made the necessary arrangements for equipping them with the utmost dispatch, I have committed the ex

ecution of this service to vice-admiral Stanhope, in whose, ability and exertions I can place the fullest confidence. I am happy on this occasion to express the warm sense I entertain of the cordial co-operation of the army, by whose exertions, with the favourable concur rence of circumstances, under Di vine Providence, ever since we left England, our ultimate success has been more immediately obtained. I must also convey to their lordships, in terms of the highest approbation and praise, the conspicuous zcal and earnest endeavours of every officer and man under my command for the accomplishment of this service; and although the operations of the feet have not been of a nature to afford me a general and brilliant occasion for adding fresh testimony to the numerous records of the bravery of British seamen and marines, yet the gallantry and energy displayed by the advanced squadron of sloops, bombs, gun-brigs, &c. which were employed under the command of captain Puget to cover the opera. tions of the left wing of the army from the Danish flotilla, ought not to be passed over in silence.

ve beheld with admiration the
courage and arduous exer-
th which, on one occasion in
L'ar, they sustained for more
ar hours a heavy and inces.
innonade with the Danish
es, block-ships, praams, and
ats, in a situation where,
he shoalness of the water,
mpossible to bring any of the
ips to their support.
it my duty to make a parti.
acknowledgment of the aid I
erived from sir Home Pop-
captain of the fleet, whose
t resources and complete
edge of his profession, espe
of that branch which is con-
with the operations of an
qualify him in a particular
er for the arduous and various
with which he has been

ed.

erewith inclose an account of led and wounded.

leave to refer their lord. to captain Collier, whom I charged with this dispatch, for further particulars they may

e to know.

I have the honour to be, &c.
J. GAMBIER.

Account of Killed and IVounded
board the advanced Squadron,
the 23d of August, 1807.
Cruiser-Lieutenant Woodford

d.

fearless-Two seamen killed; enant Williams, slightly, 1 seaand 4 marines, wounded. ndignant-One seaman killed; aman wounded.

Urgent-Oe seaman and 1 ma

wounded.

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A List of the Danish Skips and Vessals delivered up by the Capitula tion of Copenhagen to his Majesty's Forces, Sept. 7, 1807. Christian the Seventh, of 96 gunsbuilt in 1803.

Neptune, of 34 guns-built in 1789.
Waldemaar, of 84 guns-built in
1798.

Princess Sophia Frederica, of 74
guns-built in 1775.
Justice, of 74 guns--built in 1777.
Heir Apparent Frederick, of 74
guns-built in 1782.
Crown Prince Frederick, of 74 guns
-built in 1784.

Fuen, of 74 guns-built in 1787.
Oden, of 74 guns-built in 1788.
Three Crowns, of 74 guns-built in
1789.

Skiold, of 74 guns-built in 1792.
Crown Princess Maria, of 74 guns
-built in 1791.

Danemark, of 74 guns-built in 1794.

Norway, of 74 guns-built in 1800. Princess Caroline, of 74 gansbuilt in 1805.

aliant's Launch-Three seamen Detmarsken, of 64 guns-built in unded.

1780.

Conqueror,

Conqueror, of 64 guns-built in ral Gambier to commodore:

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to prevent any reinforcemen ing sent to the Danes, fro French army at Stralsund.]

[Second dispatch-From a Gambier, of the 2d of Septe inclosing a copy of the summe sent to the governor of Copen The following are the principl ticles :-]

If you will consent to dele the Danish fleet, and to our ing it away, it shall be held posit for his Danish majesty, shall be restored, with all itse ments, in as good state as it ceived, as soon as the provisi a general peace shall remove th cessity which has occasionta demand.

The property of all sorts has been captured since the mencement of hostilities, restored to its owners; and t between the united kingdo Great Britain and Ireland Denmark, may be renewed.

But if this offer is rejected t it cannot be repeated. The t tured property, public and pr must then belong to the capte and the city, when taken. share the fate of conquered pa

[Governor Peymaua refe surrender. The summons was peated, signed by admiral Gaz and lord Cathcart.]

Journal of the Army under Lord
cart, from the 22d of Aug
the 1st of September, togel
a List of all Casualties.

Head-quarters, Copen."
Sept. 1.
August 22.-General MF
division, having been landed the

evening, joined the army, amped in rear of head-quareutenant-general the earl ya's division marched from e of debarkation to DamI adjacents. Arrangement ribution settled for forming , and progress of providing ar-batteries.

The earl of Rosslyn's corps he army, and took its posisecond line, covering the

dvanced squadron of gun-, lbomb-vessels, having taken on near the entrance of the , within the crown battery, acked at ten in the morning the enemy's gun-boats and supported by the fire of the attery, block-ship, and some works; having maintained ition for several hours, they h retired, some of them ha a more than once on fire by shot. The batteries near I having acted with effect e gun-boats, the latter turn. fire upon them, but were to retire with considerable

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front of the place; our piquets occupying their ground. In the afternoon the garrison shewed itself on all the avenues leading from the town, apparently with a design ei. ther to recover their ground, or to burn the suburbs. The several ge nerals immediately drove them in, each in his own front, and at the same time seized all the suburbs on the north bank of the lakes, some of which posts are within 400 yards of the ramparts.

Sir D. Baird's division turned, and carried a redoubt which the enemy had been some days constructing, and which was that night converted into a work against him.

The enemy set fire to the end of the suburb nearest to the place, the upper part of which was occu pied by the guards, and was now defended by them. In consequence of this general success, the works which had been intended and begun by us were abandoned, and a new line was taken, within about S00 yards of the place, and nearer to it on the flanks.

25th. The mortar.batteries in the advanced line made considerable progress. A heavy fire was kept up by the garrison on the suburbs and buildings near the lake, which were strengthened as much as circumstances would allow. The navy and artillery employed in landing ordnance and stores, and forwarding them to different parts of the line.

Lieutenant general the earl of Rosslyn's corps, which had a considerable share in occupying the suburbs, relieved the reserve, which moved into this second line.

The enemy's gun-boats made their appearance in the channel be tween Omache and Zealand, and

cannonaded

cannonaded the guards in the sub. urbs. Progress made in preparing a battery to protect the right from the gun-boats. Frequent skirmishes with sharp-shooters on the right and centre, and several shells thrown from the lines.

26th.-Sir Arthur Wellesley, with the reserve, eight squadrons of cavalry and the horse artillery, under major-general Linsengen, the 6th battalion of the line, king's German legion, and the light brigade of artillery belonging to the reserve, marched to Roskeld Kroe. The gun-boats made an attack on the left of our position, and were twice driven in by the Windmill batteries, one boat having blown up, and several others having suffered considerably. The guards severely cannonaded by the gun. boats; the enemy likewise attempt ed a sortic, but was quickly driven back.

27th. At day-break the battery of four twenty-four pounders open. ed on the right, and drove in the gun-boats, one of which was much damaged. Sir Arthur Wellesley marched in two divisions to attack the enemy in front and rear at Koenerup, but he had moved up towards Kioge; upon which sir Arthur took a position to cover the besieging army. General Peyman applied for an armistice of thirty-six hours to remove the patients from St. John's hospital. Four hours were proposed to him; which offer he did not accept, and several shots were fired through the said hospi.

tal.

28th.--Progress made in landing and bringing forward ordnance and stores, as well as in making batteries and communications.

marched to Kinge, where hi pletely defeated and dispen enemy, taking upwards ofsi ficers and 1500 men, foartes of cannoa, and a quantity der and other stores. Ther of St. John's hospital were to the chapel at Friedricks adjacent houses; the Danis ral thankfully acceding to moral, and declared that it fired upon by his order, or knowledge.

30th.-Batteries nearly platforms laid, and two-thir ordnance mounted. New planned and begun, near the Mill Wharf.

31st. The enemy attent sortie on the right, before and were stopped by a pique 50th regiment, commanded tenant Light. They perse some time, and were repl the piquets with loss. S Baird twice slightly wound did not quit the field.

The Danish general Oxh rived with his officers at head ters, when they were put on and sent to their respective

In the evening 1500 pri were distributed in the fleet.

The batteries in progres armed and completed, Chalk Kiln battery, which to the enemy.

The gun-boats attacked t shore squadron of light blew up one of them, and them to retire; the gun-bo well as the block-ship, hav parently suffered considerab mage from the batteries Windmill.

September 1.-The mora teries being nearly ready for 29th.-Sir Arthur Wellesley the place was summoned. Th

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