should be no longer trained to the use of
arms; that an account of the proceedings
should be prepared and dispatched to the
British government; and that Mr. Jorgensen
and Count Tramp should be forthwith sent
to England.
These conditions were accordingly complied
with, and an agreement* concluded
between Captain Jones and Mr. Phelps on
one part, and the Etatsroed Stephensen and
the Amptman his brother on the other, in
which it was stipulated, that the latter
gentlemen, being the next in rank to Count
Tramp, should take upon them the government
of the island, and be responsible for
the persons and property of British subjects.
Mr. Phelps, therefore, together with Count
Tramp and Lieutenant Stewart of the Talbot
(the latter charged with dispatches from
Captain Jones) embarked in the Margaret
and Anne, and Mr. Jorgensen in the Orion,
for England. On the third day of the voyage,
however, the Danish prisoners, as is detailed
in the journal, set fire to the Margaret and
* See Appendix B., No. 9.
Anne; in consequence of which she was
entirely consumed; but the passengers and
crew, having been providentially saved by
the Orion, returned on the 29th of August
to Reikevig, where no other alteration in
affairs took place, except that Mr. Phelps
arid Mr. Jorgensen* with Lieutenant Stewart
* Having thus brought to a conclusion that part
of the narrative in which Mr. Jorgensen has been
concerned, it may be interesting to some of my
readers to know what has since happened to him, and
what punishment he has suffered for having unguardedly
broken his parole. On arriving in town he
took up his abode in his accustomed lodgings at the
Spread-Eagle Inn, Gracechurch-street, where, so far
from wishing to remain in concealment, he received
letters addressed to him without disguise, and even
Wrote to the Admiralty, and presented himself before
the lords commissioners of that couit. No notice, however,
was taken of what he had done by any of the
public offices, until, from private resentment, information
was given to the Transport Board that he had
broken his parole, and it was farther, though falsely,
added, that he had also secreted himself. He was
consequently arrested, and confined in Tothill-fields
Bridewell, whence he was removed to the usual dépôt of
prisoners under a similar predicament, Chatham hulks.
On board the Bahama, with frequently five and even
seven hundred prisoners of the worst description in the
same vessel, he was kept in close custody for a twelve