Some few schooners and bomb-vessels fled early, and escaped: the whole Danish fleet besides were sunk, burnt, or taken.

The Prince Regent, to save the capital from destruction, was compelled to enter into a negotiation, which ended in the abandonment of the French alliance by Denmark.

Lord Nelson then reconnoitred Stockholm; but, being unwilling to inflict unnecessary suffering, did not injure the city, on discovering that the Swedish fleet had already put to sea.

Meantime, news arrived that Paul had been assassinated in his palace at St.Petersburg; and that the policy which he had adopted, to the displeasure of the Russian nobility, was likely to find no favour with his successor.

The moving spirit of the northern confederacy was, in effect, no more, and a brief negotiation ended in its total disrupture.[41] In the same month of March the British arms were crowned with a more pleasing triumph in a more distant region.