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of a glowing mind ; and if its merits can be en­ hanced, it is, when we view it as the production of a Swede. I cannot doubt that those asper­ sions are also known in this country, which in­ dustrious travellers, of lying and splenetic me­ mory, have fabricated in their own fertile brains to impose upon the credulous part of mankind, and which they have sold wholesale in Ger­ many, to be retailed throughout the world. They pretend that a determined enmity is radically cherished between the Swedes and Danes; which assertion Mr. Wallmark has most ably and generously confuted, to the shame of that worthless scribbling tribe, and in a manner highly gratifying to every Dane.—He says, in his Poem,— “ That country ye approach is Jtail's.”* * In the summer of 1G77, a Swedish fleet of 36 sail, under the command of Admiral Count Horn, steered for Zealand; the Danish Admiral, Niels Juul, was then lying at anchor, in Kioge. bay; his situation was critical, as his orders neither instructedhim to engage, nor permitted him to avoid the enemy, who were now cruising ofF Mocn. Juul sent repeatedly to his master, Christian 5th, for orders, but re-