The news from Denmark itself arrives slowly, and in a
very imperfect way. It appears, however, that the King issued on the 6th February an address to the army, in which he confesses that the retreat from the Dannewerke has "thrown open the country to the enemy," but argues that he had but one army, and had he not withdrawn it he should have lost that one. "He stands alone in the world with his people," but will fight on, nevertheless. On the 9th the Rigsdag also published an address to the army, in which it is styled a "living Dannewerke," and another to the people, asking them to be calm and to trust in the earnestness with which resistance will be continued. The populace seem better satisfied with the King since the evacuation of the Dannewerke was explained, and no suggestion of treaty, or agreement, or com- promise finds favour at Copenhagen. Austria would, it is said, gladly agree to such compromise, but the Prussian army "needs a victory," and so the attack on Diippel will be made.
