the present situation of affairs, and declared
their 'willingness to support it, exhorting all
classes of people to do the same.
Many, likewise, of the natives, came forward,
conformably to the tenth article of the
last proclamation, with an offer of their
services, for the purpose of forming a body
Jorgensen, while all the rest in the island remained
unshaken in their, allegiancej” and he adds in other
parts of his narrative that, “ though the proclamation
of the 26th of June had struck a dread into the minds
of people that’ could not easily be removed, and though
means were taken to keep it up, partly by daily scenes
of violence and partly by an armed force from the crew
o f the Margaret and Anne perpetually patrolling the
streets, still the new state was by most people considered
a bubble, and the public officers in particular, who
ought to have been the first to have paid their homage,
did not do it, but some laid down their offices, and
Others declared they would only hold them for the
good of the country by virtue of the same authority
under which they had hitherto acted!”—He likewise
stigmatizes the motives as well as the conduct of those
who attached themselves to Mr. Jorgensen, calling them
“ a contemptible band of idle persons and men of
ruined fortunes, attracted by his being beyond measure
lavish of the sums of money amassed by his plunder,
and by the pompous promises that he daily retailed on
paper or held forth in his harangues.”
of soldiers; but, for want of a sufficient
supply of arms, as, though a search had
been made in the houses at Reikevig the
day after Count Tramp’s deposition, only
twenty or thirty old fowling-pieces, most of
them useless, and a few swords and pistols
had been found, the number of those engaged
was necessarily restricted to eight
men, who, dressed in green uniforms, armed
with swords and pistols, and mounted on
good ponies, scoured the country in various
directions, intimidating the Danes, and
making themselves highly useful to the
new governor in securing the goods and
property that were to be confiscated. As a
farther act of authority, and to shew the
clemency intended to be pursued, four prisoners
confined in the Tught-huus, or house
of correction, one of the most considerable
buildings belonging to the town, were released,
and the place itself converted into
barracks for the soldiers. Some of the troop o
were soon employed in seizing the persons
of two of the civil officers, the Landfogued,
Mr. Frydensberg, and Assessor Einersen*,
* See journal, vol. i. page 89, for a farther account
of this transaction.