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(1789) [MARC] Author: Matthew Consett
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DE’ N’TM AO RP IK £39

their breed of horfes (which are ofthe Holftein kind) and
in’many other advantages which they enjoy. Yet. 1 am
told by very good authority (the Conful of Elfinore) that
they ate obliged tothe Swedes for the greateft part of their
Cattle which they privately fmuggle. This 1s very extra-
ordinary and could hardly be credited from the appear-
ance of each country. Thefe two near neighbours, like

other contiguous flates, cordially hate each other. They

AVC @limkind of iniercourfe except when Intereft
interferes ; that they pay as much attention toasanysHol-

lander whatever. The Danes in general feem of a
phlegmatic conftitution and are very obftinate ; a quality
which we fully experienced in our pofting through that
country. The driver indeed is not fo much to be blamed
as he has the fanétion of the police to travel only at the
rate of five wiles an hour, but a worfe privilege is that of
ftopping where and when he pleafes, fo that you are total-
ly atthe mercy of an obftinate drone, whom nothing can
enliven but the touch of a danifh ducat. The King is
now difqualified from holding the reins of Government,
that power is for the moft part invefted in the young

Prince and Gouncil. The Prince.of Denmark 1s much and
defervedly

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