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“3 TRAVELS
had been fome foreign ambaffador. At the public fupper he mutt
have ftood with other diftinguifhed foreigners among the fpefta-
tors, if a fudden and well-timed indifpofition had not furnifhed
an excufe for his abfence. The queen dowager, however, {et
afide thefe troublefome niceties, which fettered the reft of the
royal family, and treated the bifhop in the moft cordial manner,
as the nephew of her late confort, and with thofe marks of efteem
which were due to his perfonal character. In order to give him
what fhe confidered as his right, without infringing that of any
one elfe, fhe ordered the places at her table to be diftributed by
fealed tickets. Every one that was invited drew fuch a ticket,
and placed himfelf at table according to the number written
upon it; but fhe had privately given diredtions that the number
of the place between her and the princefs fhould be referved for
her kinfman, and put into the hat in which the tickets were col-
lected, after all the others were drawn out.
There is one advantage attending the Swedifh court: the
drefs is not half fo expenfive as that required at other courts of
Europe. With three or four fuits of clothes you may appear, at
every drawing-room for as many years. The colour and form
being once fixed, there is no admiffion of variation. The drefs
af the ladies differs but little from the prefent fafhion in England,
except that the fleeves of their gowns are cut in the Spanifh man-
ner. The .colour muft be always black, except on gala days,
when it 1s white. The head-drefs, ribbands, and the fmaller
articles of the toilette, are left to the fancy of the fex. The drefs
of
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