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headed by a Prince like theirs, will leave no­ thing for Denmark to fear from invasion. But the improvements which the navy, our most important branch of defence, has received, surpass all expectation. In order to enable the reader to form some idea, how far I amjustified in this expression, I shall endeavour to set before him a sketch of the state and increase of the Danish navy since 1796. In that year Capt. •Kohlenberg was appointed constructor of the Royal Navy, he had travelled through the principal maritime countries of Eu­ rope, ond improved his natural genius, not only by observing the different methods pursued in the navies and dock-yards of England, France, and Iiolland, but by even assisting in the work himself. This precaution enabled him to dis­ cern the good, and reject the bad. Thus he returned to Denmark, furnished with every re­ quisite to put his extensive plansinto execution. The Prince Royal neither undervalued norover­ rated the talents of Mr. Ilohlenberg, but zea­ lously assisted his project,till experience should either confirm or condemn it. The Naiad