AccountOfTheSiegeBombardmentOfCopenhagen

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ployed with advantage, for our common defence, be provided with arms, and we shall with energy repel our enemy, who imagines himself capable o f dictating igno­ minious laws to a brave and noble nation.14 Frequent skirmishing took daily place between the advanee-posts of the british and danishttoops without succefs on either side Sept. 2 the Commanders o f the bri- . .. fish forces summoned for the last time General Peymann to surrender the danish ships of the line on the before mentioned conditions and in an amicable manner, de­ claring, that the horrors o f a bombardment would be the immediate consequences o f a refusal, and that it must tall on the head o f • those, in whose power it was to avert the evil by a single word. The Commandant persisting in his refusal, a bombardment, which had been prepaiing for three weeks, was now inevitable, but unacquainted with its dreadful consequences, the most part o f the inhabitants were not much in dread o f