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On 2 September, after Jackson's negotiations proved unsuccessful, the British fleet began bombarding Copenhagen until when on 7pm 5 September the Danes requested a truce.

On 7 September the Danes agreed to hand over their navy ( 18 ships of the line, 15 frigates and 31 smaller ships ) and naval stores and the British agreed to evacuate Zealand within six weeks.

On 16 September Canning received the news with relief and excitement: " Did I not tell you we would save Plumstead from bombardment?

" he wrote to Revered William Leigh.

On 24 September he wrote to George Rose: " Nothing was ever more brilliant, more salutary or more effectual than the success Copenhagen ".

On 30 September he wrote Lord Boringdon that he hoped Copenhagen would " stun Russia into her sense again ".

Canning wrote to Gower on 2 October 1807: " We are hated throughout Europe and that hate must be cured by fear ".

After the news of Russia's declaration of war against Britain reached London on 2 December, Canning wrote to Lord Boringdon two days later: " The Peace of Tilsit you see is come out.

We did not want any more case for Copenhagen ; but if we had, this gives it us ".