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seasonably embraced to raise the powers of our hearts and minds. The Nyeborg, prame, could help the Aggers- huus no farther than a shoal, called Stubben, where she sank. Captain Rothe then worked his own vessel up to the Custom-IIouse,* where she sank to her gunwale. The sight of the prame was dreadful in the extreme ; there was nothing but the stump of her foremast stand­ ing ; her shrouds shattered ; all her guns, ex­ cept one, dismounted ; Iter cabin stove in ; and her decks covered with dead bodies, and severed limbs. When I reflect on this scene I shud­ der, as did all who witnessed i t ; but Professor Rahbek turned it to a better account, and in the Danish Spectator, which is constantly on the alert to lash our follies, to condemn our vices, and to commend our virtues, wrote the fol­ lowing lines: “ Countrymen ! repair to the Custom-House , u view Nyeborgy and be convinced how a Danish * The landing place at Copenhagen is commonly so called from its vicinity to the Custom-House.