Daniel Hailes heavily opposed to the French Revolution and published Heiberg's article in The Danish Spectator using his real name.
Heavily opposed to the French Revolution, he zealously attempted to calm Denmark's revolutionary leanings during his ambassadorial time there. After the 1794 fire at the Christiansborg Palace, the Danish poet Peter Andreas Heiberg wrote an article which he published in his friend Knud Lyne Rahbek's journal Den Danske Tilskuer (The Danish Spectator) under the pseudonym Simon Sanddrue on 17 March that year. 
