in submitting such a partial and exaggerated
statement of all that had taken place, as
might be expected from men whose passions
and whose interests were so materially involved.
Captain Jones, therefore, for the
purpose of becoming better informed upon
this subject, sailed round without delay to
Reikevig Bay, where, among the first objects
he saw, was the dark blue flag, with three
white stockfish on the upper quarter, waving
upon one of the warehouses in the town.
Immediately upon his arrival, Count Tramp,
a prisoner * in the Margaret and Anne, in
which he had been confined ever since his
* There appears to me to be no just reason for the
severe treatment which Count Tramp states that he
received during his imprisonment in the Margaret and
Anne. A love of truth and a desire to make the present
narrative an impartial one, urges me to the insertion of
the count’s own relation of these circumstances. Perhaps
an apology for indignities offered at the period of
the seizure of his person may be found in the hurried
manner in which it was done, and the inflamed state o f
the minds of the persons concerned in it, in consequence
of the suspected ill conduct o f the governor,
but no such excuse can be made in the more tranquil
time of the imprisonment, for a filthy cabin and an
uninterrupted confinement of nine weeks. With regard
to the count’s general fare, I always thought that he
capture, solicited an interview with him,
when he stated how ill he had been himself
personally used, and how contrary to all the
laws of nations; adding, that Mr. Jorgensen
was allowed a supply of every necessary from the
Landfogued, Mr. Frydensberg, or from his factor,
Mr. Simmonsen; and, indeed, I feel almost confident of
it.-—Yet he says, “ Bent down under the weight of so
much grief and affliction united, it now became my lot
to be kept confined in a narrow and dirty cabin, and
sometimes, when Captain Liston took it into his head,
even shut up in a small room, or rather closet*, where
I was deprived of the light of the day. Constantly I
was obliged to put up with the society of drunken and
noisy mates, and with them for my companions, I was
reduced to subsist on fare which even the men complained
of as being more than commonly indifferent; in
short, I was deprived for the space of nine weeks of
every convenience and comfort of life to which I had
been used, and subjected to all the sufferings which the
oppressor had it in his power to inflict. His contempt
of decorum and humanity even went so far as to refuse
a request that was made on my behalf by one of my
friends, Bishop Videlin, that I might be allowed to
take exercise on a small uninhabited island near which
the ship was lying. I would even have submitted to be
* This circumstance happened only once or twice, when the
great number of Danes, and the refractory conduct of some of
th em , called for th e assistance of many o f the crew from the
Margaret and A n n e : at such times it was th o u g h t th e appearance
o f the count upon deck might encourage th e insurrection.