[532] *No. 2.—Chancery-circular, by which privateers are forbidden to stay in Danish harbors and waters or sell their prizes in Denmark.
The royal department for foreign affairs has informed the chancery that it has pleased His Majesty, on the 13th of last month, to resolve as follows:
Privateers of whatsoever nation are forbidden to stay in the Danish harbors and waters; in case only when such privateers are forced by evident danger, occasioned either by storms or a pursuing enemy, to seek their only refuge in these harbors, are they allowed to be received there and obtain the assistance which humanity requires; but they are enjoined, as soon as the danger is past, to go to sea again. No privateer is allowed to send her prizes to Denmark or to sell them there; nay, even in the above-mentioned case, when privateers in a state of distress enter into Danish harbors, are they forbidden to discharge or reload the prizes they may have brought, or sell them or their cargoes, either in retail or wholesale. For this reason His Majesty’s subjects are strictly forbidden to purchase the prizes of foreign privateers.
[533] When foreign ships of war enter into Danish harbors, they are allowed to take with them into *the ports the prizes they may have taken, but they are obliged to take them out with them again; and they are forbidden at the same time to discharge or reload them, or sell them or their cargoes, either in retail or wholesale.