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18 have accepted thereof, on a belief that it will be expeditious than by ſea.

I have the pleaſure to tranſmit an Armiſtice between the Court of Denmark and myſelf.

I mean, as ſoon as the diſabled ſhips are and the worſt of the wounded moved into the  Daniſh ſhip of the line, which I have commiſſioned  an hoſpital ſhip, to proceed over the Grounds into  Baltic to put into execution the remaining part  my inſtructions.

The Iſis and Monarch being found in ſo bad a from the late action, as to render it neceſſary to  them to England to have their damages repaired, I  ſend them home for that purpoſe with the  hoſpital-ſhip, which has the wounded and ſick  board.

The Daniſh Government on the one hand, and Sir Hyde Parker, Knight, Commander in  of his Britannic Majeſty’s Naval Forces in the  of Copenhagen on the other, being from motives  humanity, equally anxious to put a ſtop to the  effuſion of blood, and to ſave the city of  from the diſastrous conſequences which may attend  further proſecution of hoſtilities againſt that city have mutually agreed upon a Military Armiſtice  Suspenſion of Arms

His Daniſh Majeſty having for that purpoſe Major-Gen. Erneſt Frederick Walterſtorff, Chamberlain to his Daniſh Majeſty, and Colonel of a, and Adjutant Gen. Hans Linholm, Captain his Daniſh Majeſty’s Navy, his Commiſſioners for  about the terms of the ſaid Armiſtice;  Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, Knight, having, with  ſame view, duly authoriſed the Right Hon. Lord Nelſon of the Nile, Knight of the Moſt Order of the Bath, Duke of Bronte in Sicily,  of the Grand Croſs of the Order of St. Ferdinand  of Merit, and of the Imperial Order of the