settled by the representatives of the people,
allowing by the sixth article, to the existing
authorities the option of remaining in their
respective situations. In the tenth article
it is declared that the country shall be put
in a state of defence: the twelfth annuls
all debts due to Danish merchants in the
is not hindered from following the irresistible dictates
o f nature in the care and education of the children.
But this cannot be done if we are not allowed to marry,
and I humbly beg Mr. Bishop Videlin’s declaration; so
much the more so, as I am convinced of the justice of
my cause.
" I also commit my life and worldly happiness to
your Excellency’s gracious consideration.
“ With the confidence and attachment of a subject,
“ B i a k n e T h o r l e v s e n . ”
Skridnafell within Barderstrand Syssel,
1st August, 1809.
T o his Excellency, Mr. Jorgen Jorgensen, Protector of the
whole Island o f Iceland, and Chief Commander by
Sea and Land.
As my readers may wish to learn the fate of Mr. Biarne
Thorlevsen and his faithful girl, I will add that upon
farther inquiry on the part of the bishop into the affair,
he found that the wife was anxious for a separation from
her husband, when there remained no obstacle to his
wishes of entering a second time into the marriage state.
country or abroad, and prohibits clandestine
payment of them, under pain of the individual
being compelled again to pay the
same amount to the new governor: the
thirteenth provides against the prices of provisions
being exorbitant: the fourteenth
takes off the half of all taxes to be levied
upon the inhabitants till the 1st of July,
1810: by the eighteenth, all communication
with Danish ships is forbidden: the second
third and fourth guarantee personal safety
and property, and payments of pensions,
&c.; while the nineteenth extends the same
protection to Danes who do not intermeddle
in the political affairs of the island.
It may he observed, that the number of
representatives that were to have been sent
were three from the southern ampt, one from
the eastern ampt, two from the northern, and
two from the western ampt.
The government-house was from this time
occupied by Mr. Jorgensen, and all public
business was as usual transacted in the
office belonging to it. The salaries of the