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Double ramparts have been elevated, and fosses dug from the batteries on the shore of Amack, adjoining die Baltic, down to the Western gate, a distance of one and a half English miles. If every government were thus made wise by the severity of experience, we should have fewer scenes of the 2d of April: for who is more dangerous than the lion roused in his den ? Situated as we were before, and after the bat­ tle, I trust it will be admitted, that we could not have acted otherwise •, if I have proved this clearly, my task is completed. To love our Country, was a maxim transmitted to us by the example of our ancestors ; but I may safely affirm, that love has been increased by the example we have shewn each o ther: an example which Christian 4th, Frederick 3d, Hvitfeldt, or any other patriot would have proudly shared. Our rank as a nation does not enable us to shine with warlike dignity, the humble virtues of peace, therefore, distinguish Our sons, and be it our noblest aim to contri-