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superior -virtues, and pardon me for having related to this great and good nation, actions not less valued for the profession of the man who performed them ! A profession, alike the glory of Denmark and of Britain. It was very much our wish to have taken a survey of Cronborg; but the late orders were so strict, that it is impossible to get access to the castle. We were, therefore, obliged to content ourselves with admiring its noble gothic tur­ rets, towering above the fortifications. A tra­ veller, who visited this fort in 1793, informs us, he found the sentry boxes lying upon the ground, and the soldiers asleep in them ; at the same time observing, that he could easily take it with two sail of the line and five hun­ dred determined m en; but I, at least, might aver, that the outside of the fortifications is so formidable, that the gentleman who made this assertion would now be as little able to take the fort, as we are to prevent a fleet from pas­ sing the Sound, the breadth of which, as measured at the instance of the Royal Society of Sciences, at Copenhagen, in the year 1796,