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44 His Majesty has long carried'on a most UU-* equal contest of ‘scrupulous forbearance against unrelenting Violence and oppression. But that? forbearance , has its - bounds. *• When1 the design was openly avowed, and already but too far ad-v vanced towards its accomplishment;' bf subjecting the Powers of Europe to one universal Usurpa^- tion, and of combining them, by terror or by forte, in k : Confederacy against’-the; maritime- rights and political existence o f this' KirlgsdOm,- it became necessary for his Majesty to anticipa­ te the success of a system,; iiot more fatal to his interests than to these- of the Powers Who wei*e' destined to be the instruments of its execution.* " It waS time that--the effects of that di'ead Which France has inspired 'into the nations o f the world should be counteracted by in exertion- 6f the poWer of Great Britain, -called for by the' exigency of the crisis; and proportioned to the magnitude' of the -danger.- '■ , ' f - ■■(■' Notwithstanding the Declaration of War bli­ the part of the Danish Government, it still re­ mains for Denmark to determine, whether waf* shall continue between the- two Nations.' His* ' Majesty still proffers an amicable arrangement.- He is' anxious to sheathe the sword,- which ‘he has *been most reluctantly compelled to draw.* He -is ready to demonstrate to Demark and tof the world ,< that having adted solely upon the- aense of what was due to the security of his own* dominipns, he-is gaol desirous,- from any other* ;