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I conceive, will be, in giving my reader a sim­ ple narrative of his actions, and leaving his merits to the public decision. L ars B agge , a boatman of Elsineur, hap­ pened to be at Copenhagen in the year 1801, when the memorable third day of November dawned with a most tremendous hurricane ; it seemed as if the elements had conspired to pro­ duce a second chaos. The vivid flashes of the lightning displayed many a dismasted vessel tossing on the angry waves in the offing; and the reports, at intervals, of solitary guns, proclaimed the mariners’ distress. When day had rendered objects more distinct, a brig was observed stranded on the shoal, under the battery of the Three Crowns. She lay almost on her beam-ends, and the wretched crew were seen extending their arms towards heaven from the shrouds, whither they had taken refuge. They were eight in number, and had been many hours in this dreadful uncertainty, sus­ pended between hope and eternity. The ca­ bin-boy being soon exhausted, was washed overboard ; while his companions exerted