its own decay, but ours also. It is a place where one may go to learn both how to live and how to die.

The accompanying engraving of the monument of Mr. Samsöe, will give the reader some idea of the taste and beauty which prevail in this cemetery.

COLUMN OF LIBERTY.-Another object of interest in the environs of Copenhagen is the plain and simple monument called the Column of Liberty, situated in the centre of the road, and surrounded by an iron palisade, immediately beyond the west gate of the city. It was erected in commemoration of the abolition of feudal servitude in 1788, during the reign of Christian VII. The material of this column is Bornholm free-stone, of a reddish color. The pedestal is of greyish marble. It is 48 feet in height. It bears on its four sides suitable inscriptions. On the east side there is, in basso-relievo, the figure of a slave in the act of bursting his feudal fetters; whilst on the west side, the goddess of Justice is represented, also in basso-relievo. At the four corners of the base are four emblematical figures in white marble, of Fidelity, Agriculture, Valor, and Patriotism. The expense of erecting this monument was defrayed by subscription. The late king, Frederick VI., then Crown Prince, has had the chief reputation of having accomplished this great measure of justice. But much is due, in the estimation of those who know, to Counts Stolberg and Bernstorff, who took the deepest interest in the matter. They had been for many years endeavoring to accomplish this humane and just measure.

The advantages which have resulted to the peasants are immense, as any one will perceive, who considers what was their former state and what their present. Formerly the peasants were considered as appertaining to the soil, and were sold with it. They enjoyed but few rights, and were in fact not considered as differing much from the brute creation. They were called upon to render ser

The Column of Liberty, or Freedom, was erected to commemorate the emancipation of the peasants of Denmark. This great measure of justice was commenced in 1766, when Christian VII freed the peasants of the royal domains; it was completed when, during the nominal reign of the same king, his son, the Crown Prince, in the year 1787, by the advice of the younger Bernstorff, gave to all the peasants of the kingdom their liberty.

Nothing was They had no

vices of the most unreasonable kind. If the sovereign. chose to go a-hunting in the time of harvest, not only did he traverse, with his dogs and horses, and many attendants, their fields ready for the sickle, and trample down their grain and their hay, but even demanded the aid of the peasants themselves, to beat the bushes and drive up the game. Sometimes a fortnight was thus spent; in the meanwhile their harvest went to ruin. done to promote education among them. encouragement to work, no stimulus to endeavor to elevate themselves in society. Now it is far otherwise. They feel that they are freemen. What property they possess is respected, and they know that it is their own. They are allowed to purchase lands, and do purchase them. They are the small farmers of Denmark. Some of them are becoming rich. They have fine horses, cows, sheep, &c. Those who own no land rent from a rich proprietor. Their children are universally sent to school some portion of the year; and they are now a happy people.

PALACE OF FREDERIKSBERG.-At the distance of nearly two English miles from the Column of Liberty, and on the road which runs due west from Copenhagen to the interior of the island of Zealand, stands the Royal Summer Palace of Frederiksberg. The site of this palace is exceedingly fine. It stands on a hill of considerable elevation, but of the most gentle and easy ascent. Neither the exterior nor the interior of this edifice is worthy of particular notice; but the garden which surrounds it is quite extensive, and very beautiful. Ponds of water and verdant lawns are every where interspersed through the noble forest, whose trees, during the season of summer, almost conceal the white walls of the palace. The view from the towers of this château is perfectly enchanting. This palace was made the head-quarters of the com

mander-in-chief of the English army, in the infamous attack which they made on Copenhagen, in the year 1807. Posterity will find it difficult to believe, that a country claiming for itself the high civilization and the wide-spread influence of Christianity which England does, could be capable of the atrocious act to which we here refer. A very slight notice of this whole affair may be neither uninteresting, nor unprofitable, to those of our readers who are not familiar with its history.

For several years after the attack of Lord Nelson, in 1801, the government of Denmark very wisely pursued a strictly neutral course. During that period of repose, her commerce became quite extensive, for her merchants had a very large share of the carrying trade of Europe. By this means the resources of the nation rapidly augmented, and the wealth of the people increased to an unparalleled degree. It was in this moment of her greatest prosperity that she was destined to see her capital visited by another British armament, and laid in ruins by it.

The alleged cause of this severe and most unjustifiable measure was this: Buonaparte, by the treaty of Tilsit, concluded on the 9th of July, 1807, had brought all his continental enemies not only to peace, but in a sense to a state of subjection to his influence, and even control. The English believed, or professed to do so, that by a secret article of that treaty, (of the existence of which not a particle of evidence has ever been produced,) it was stipulated that Buonaparte should overrun and occupy Denmark with his troops, for the double purpose of closing the Sound and the Belts against the British ships, and thus to exclude British commerce from the Baltic; and also for getting possession, by persuasion or by force, of the Danish fleet, which had become large, and was considered a remarkably fine one, for the purpose of augment