a Done at Copenhagen, this 7th nish general and lord Cathcart, and day of September, 1807. myself, certain articles were agreed (Signed) ARTHUR WELLESLEY. upon, of which I have the honour HOME POPHAM. to transmit you a copy. From these GEORGE MURRAY. their lordships will perceive, that Ratifié par moi, all the Danish ships and vessels of (Signée) PEYMAUN. war (of which I ioclose a list), with the stores in the arsenal, were to be delivered up to such persons as Dispatch from Admiral Gambier, should be appointed to receive them Comon under-in-chief of his Majes on the part of his majesty. I acty's Ships and Vessels in the Baltic; cordingly appointed sir Home Popaddressed to the Hon. William ham for this purpose ; and having Wellesley Pole, Secretary to the made the necessary arrangements for Admiralty; dated Prince of Wales, equipping them with the utmost in Copenhageil Road, 7th Septem. dispatch, I have committed the ex. ber, 1807. ecution of this service to vice-adSIR, miral Stanhope, in whose ability The communications which I and exertions I can place the fullest have alrerdy had the honour to confidence. I am happy on this transmit to you, will have made the occasion to express the warm sense lords commissioners, of the admi. I entertain of the cordial co-opera. ralty acquainted with the proceed- tion of the army, by whose exer. ings of the sleet under my command tions, with the favourable concurdown to the 2d instant; I have now rence of circumstances, under Di. to add, that the mortar batteries vine Providence, ever since we left which have been erected by the England, our ultimate success has army in the several positions they been more immediately obtained. I had taken round Copenhagen, to- must also convey to their lordships, gether with the bomb-vessels, which in terms of the highest approbation were placed in convenient situations, and praise, the conspicuous zeal and began the bombardment in the earnest endeavours of every officer morning of that day, with such and man under my command for the power and effect, that in a short accomplishment of this service; and time the town was sct on fire, and although the operations of the fleet by the repeated discharges of our have not been of a nature to afford artillery, was kept in flames in dif. me a general and brilliant occasion ferent places till the evening of the for adding fresh testimony to , the 5th ; when a considerable part of it numerous records of the bravery of being consumed, and the conflagra. British seamen and marines, yet the tion haviog arrived at a great height, gallantry and energy displayed by threaiening the speedly destruc- the advanced squadron of sloops, tion of ihe whole city, the general bombs, gun.brigs, &c. which were commanding the garrison sent out employed under the command of a tlag of truce, desiring an armis. captain Puget to cover the opera. tick, to afiord time to treat for a ca. tions of the left wing of the army pitulation. After some correspon. from the Danish flotilla, ought not dece bad passed between the Da. to be passed over in silence. I have beheld with admiration the Africaine's Boat One seaman steady courage and arduous cxer. wounded. tion with which, on one occasion in Total-4 killed, 13 wounded. particular, they sustained for more List of Killed and Wounded by the than four hours a heavy and inces. Explosion of the Charles armed sant candonade with the Danish batteries, block-ships, praams, and Transport, attached to the advanced Squadron, on the 31st. Aug. 1807. 'guo-boats, in a situation where, from the shoalness of the water, Belonging to the Valiant-Two it was impossible to bring any of the seamen killed ; lieutenant N. Rowe, large ships to their support. Mr. Philip Tomlinson, master's mate I feel it my duty to make a parti. (since dead of his wounds), and 12 çular acknowledgment of the aid I seamen, wounded. have derived from sir Home Pop- James Moyase, master, and 7 sea. Belonging to the Transport--Mr. ham, captain of the fleet, whose and complete men, prompt resources killed ; 7 scamen wounded. J, GAMBIER. knowledge of his profession, especially of that branch which is con. A List of the Danish Ships and Vesnected with the operations of an sols delivered up by the Capitulaariny, qualify him in a particular tion of Copenhugen to his Majes. manner for the arduous and various ty's Forces, Sept. 7, 1807. duties with which he has been Christian the Seventh, of 96 gunscharged. built in 1803. I herewith inclose an account of Neptune, of 84 guns-built in 1789. the killed and wounded. Waldemaar, of 84 guns-built in I beg leave to refer their lord. 1798. ships to captain Collier, whom I Princess Sophia Frederica, of 74 have charged with this dispatch, for guns-built in 1775. any further particulars they may Justice, of 74 guns-built in 1777. desire to know. Heir Apparent Frederick, of 74 -built in 1784. on-board the advanced Squadron, Oden, of 74 guns--built in 1788. Cruiser-Lieutenant Woodford 1789. killed. Skjold, of 74 guns-built in 1792. Fearless-Two seamen killed; Crown Princess Maria, of 74 guns, lieutenant Williams, slightly, 1 sea- built in 1791. man and 4 marines, wounded. Danemark, of 74 guns-built in Indignant-One seaman killed ; 1794. 1 seaman wounded. Norway, of 74 gups-built in 1800. Urgent-One seaman and 1 ma. Princess Caroline, of 74 gunsrine wounded. built in 1805. Valiant's Launch--Three seamen Detmarsken, of 64 guns-built in wounded. 1780. Conqueror, Conqueror, of 64 guns-built in ral Gambier to commodore Keats, 1795. to prevent any reisforcements beMars, of 64 guns-built in 1784. ing sent to the Danes, from the FRIGATES. French army at Stralsund.] Pearl, of 44 guns-built in 1804. [Second dispatch-From admiral Housewife, of 44 guds-built in Gambier, of the 2d of September, 1789. inclosing a copy of the summons he Liberty, of 44 guns--built in 1793. sent to the governor of Copenhagen. Iris, of 44 gups--built in 1795. The following are the principal ar. Rota, of 44 guns-built in 1801. ticles :-) Venus, of 44 guns--built in 1805. If you will consent to deliver up Nyade, of 36 guns-built in 1796. the Danish fleet, and to our carryTriton, of 28 guns-built in 1790. ing it away, it shall be held in de. Frederigstein, of 28 guns--built in posit for his Danish majesty, and 1800. shall be restored, with all its equipLittle Belt, of 24 guns--built in ments, in as good state as it is re1801. ceived, as soon as the provisions of St. Thomas, of 22 guns--built in a general peace shall remove the ne1779. cessity which has occasioned this Fylla, of 24 guns-built in 1802. demand. Elbe, of 20 guns--built in 1800. The property of all sorts which Eyderen, of 20 gups-built in 1802. has been captured since the comGluckstad, of 20 guns-built in 1804. mencement of hostilities, will be BRIGS, restored to its owners; and the union Sarpe, of 18 gods-built in 1791. betwcen the united kingdoms of Glommen, of 18 guns-bailt in Great Britain and Ireland, and 1791. Denmark, may be renewed. Ned Elven, of 18 guns-built in But if this offer is rojected now, 1792. it cannot be repeated. The capMercure, of 18 guns-built in 1806. tured property, public and private, Courier, of 14 guns--built in 1801. must then belong to the captors ; Flying Fish-built in 1789. and the city, when taken, must GUN-BOATS. share the fate of conquered places. Eleven with two guns in the bow. [Governor Peymaun refused to Fourteen with one gun in the bow, surrender. The summons was reand one in the stero. peated, signed by admiral Gambier J. GAMBIER. and lord Cathcart.] Dispatches from admiral Gam. Journal of the Army under Lord Cathbier and lieutenant-general lord cart, from the 22d of August to Cathcart, addressed to lord viscount the 1st of September, together with Castlereagh, one of his majesty's a List of all Casucities. principal secretaries of state. [Our limits oblige us to curtail Head-quarters, Copenhagen, some of the less important details. Sept. 1. The first dispatch, dated September August 22.-General M'Farlane's 1, relates to orders issued by admin dirision, having been landed the pre 1 deding evening, joined the army, front of the place; our piquets ocand encamped in rear of head-quar- cupying their ground. In the afterters. Lieutenant-general the earl noon the garrison shewed itself on of Rosslyn's division marched from all the avenues leading from the the place of debarkation to Dam. town, apparently with a design ei. huis and adjacents. Arrangement ther to recover their ground, or to and distribution settled for forming burn the suburbs. The several gethe park, and progress of providing nerals immediately drove them in, for mortar-batteries. cach in his own front, and at the 230,-- The earl of Rosslyn's corps same time seized all the suburbs on joined the army, and took its posi. the north bank of the lakes, some tion in second line, covering the of which posts are within 400 yards centra. of the ramparts. The advanced squadron of gun. Sir D. Baird's division turned, brigs and bomb-yessels, having taken and carried a recoubt which the a position gear the entrance of the enemy had been some days con. harbour, within the crown battery, structing, and which was that night were attacked at ten in the morning converted into a work against him. by all the enemy's guu-boats and The enemy set fire to the end of praams, supported by the fire of the the suburb nearest to the place, crown battery, black-ship, and somo the upper part of which was occi. of the works; having maintained pied by the guards, and was now this position for several hours, they defended by them. In consequence at length retired, some of them ham of this general success, the works ving beca more than once on fire by which had been intended and bered-hot shot. The batteries near gun by us were abandoned, and a the mill having acted with effect new line was taken, within abont upon the gun-boats, the latter turn- 800 yards of the place, and nearer ed their fire upon them, but were to it on the flanko. obliged to retire with considerable 25th.-The mortar-batteries ja loss. the advanced line made considerable 24th.-At thfce in the morning progress. A heavy fire was kept the army was under arms; the cena up by the garrison on the suburbs tre advanced its position to the and buildings near the lake, which height near the road which runs in were strengthened as much as cira direction parallel to the defences cumstances would allow. The navy of Copenhagen, to Friedricksberg, and artillery employed in landing occupying that road and some posts ordnance nd stores, and forward. beyond it. The guards at the same ing them to different parts of the time occupied the suburbs between line. Friedricksberg and Copenhagen, Lieutenant-general the earl of flanked by a detachment of the 79th. Rosslyn's corps, which had a consi. They dislodged a piquet of the ene. derable share in occupying the submy, who, in their retreat, concealed urbs, relieved the reserve, which thirteen three-pounders, which have moved into this second line. since been found. The enemy's gun.boats made All the piquets of the enemy fell their appearance in the channel be. back to the lake or inundations in tween Omache and Zealand, and cannonaded the guards in the sub. marched to Kioge, where he com. urbs. Progress made in preparing pletely defeated and dispersed the a battery to protect the right from enemy, taking upwards of sixty of. the gun-boats. Frequent skirmishes ficers and 1500 men, fourteen pieces with sharp-shooters on the right and of cannon, and a quantity of pow. centre, and several shells thrown der and other stores. The patients from the lines. cannonadce of St. John's hospital were removed 26th.-Sir Arthur. Wellesley, to the chapel at Friedricksberg, and with the reserve, eight squadrons of adjacent houses ; the Danish genecavalry and the horse artillery, 10- ral thankfully acceding to this reder major-general Linsengen, the moral, and declared that it was not 6th battalion of the line, king's fired upon by his order, or with his Gerinan legion, and the light bri. knowledge. gade of artillery belonging to the 30th.–Batteries nearly finished, reserve, marched to Roskeld Kroe. platforms laidl, and two-thirds of the The gun-boats made an attack on ordnance mounted. New, battery the left of our position, and were planned and begun, near the Chalk twice driven in by the Windmill Mill Wharf, batteries, one boat having blown 31st. The enemy attempted a up, and several others having sufs sortie on the right, before sunrise, fered considerably. The guards and were stopped by a piquet of the severely cannonaded by the gun. 50th regiment, commanded by lieu. boats; the enemy likewise attempt tenant Light. They persevered for ed a sortie, but was quickly driven some time, and were repnised by back. the piquets with loss. Sir David 27th.- At day-break the battery Baird twice slightly wounded, but of four twenty-four pounders open did not quit the field. ed on the right, and drove in the The Danish general Oxholm are gun.boats, one of which was much rived with his officers at head-quar. damaged. Sir Artiur Wellesley ters, when they were put on parole, marched in two divisions to attack and sent to their respective homes. the enemy in front and rear at In the evening 1500 prisoners Koenerup, but he had moved up were distributed in the fleet. towards Kiage; upon which sir The batteries in progress ; all Arthur took a position to cover the armed and completed, except the besieging army. General Peyman Chalk Kiln battery, which is close applied for an armistice of thirty-six to the enemy. hours to remove the patients from The gun-boats attacked the inSt. John's hospital. Four hours shore squadron of light vessels; were proposed to him ; which offer blew up one of them, and obliged he did not accept, and several shots them to retire; the gun-boats, as were fired through the said hospi. well as the block-ship, having aptal. parently suffered considerable da. 28th.– Progress made in landing mage from the batteries at the and bringing forward ordnance and Windmill. stores, as well as in making batte. September 1.-The mortar bat. ries and communications. teries being nearly ready for action, 29th...Sic Arthur Wellesley the place was summoned. The an. |
