Norwegian Service
- 1814-1824
On 13 April 1814 Fabricius’ name was deleted from the list of Danish naval officers as he had sworn loyalty to the Norwegian government without having obtained a release from Denmark.
On 19 February 1816, the Danish captain Carl Adolph Rothe, Copenhagen's Harbourmaster, arrived in Christiana (modern day Oslo) to negotiate with Norway’s Minister Thomas Fasting the return of the seven warbrigs that had ended up in Norwegian waters after the Treaty of Kiel. The negotiations were taken up his Norwegian counterpart the (now) rear admiral, Admiral Jens Schou Fabricius, who did not dispute the Danish king's right to five of the brigs, but proposed consideration of the feeling in Norway whether the affair could be settled by Norway paying suitable compensation for keeping the ships. On 22 June agreement was reached between Fabricius and Rothe. The brigs Allart and Seagull which had been captured in Norwegian Waters were awarded to the Norwegian navy. The other five brigs that were already in Norway would stay there on payment of 95,000 speciedlr (a little over $2 million US dollars bullion value in 2012). Thomas Fasting, then Minister for Maritime Affairs, was succeeded by Jens Fabricius for the period 1817-1818, then Fasting took over again.
Fabricius became adjutant general to the Swedish-Norwegian king in 1818, and was promoted to vice admiral on 23 August 1821. He was elected to the Norwegian parliament in 1824 as a representative for Bratsberg.
- Later
He retired, at the age of 78, in 1836 and died in Porsgrunn on 6 April 1841.
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