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74 | TRAVELS
I will farther obferve, before I quit this fubjeét, that this mode of
drefs gives to the Swedifh court an air of magnificence and gran-
deur, more ftriking than all the party-coloured glare that you meet
with in other places; in the fame manner as the imagination de-
rives more pleafure from contemplating a military corps in the
plaineft uniform, than from the fight of an equal affemblage of
men apparelled in richer clothes of different hues and fafhions.
This court-drefs, which may be confidered as the national uni-
form, was finally eftablifhed by Guftavus III.
At the fame time that the moft rigid obfervance of particular
forms is exacted by the Court of Stockholm, within what we may
call its own precincts, there is no country where the king and
princes mix more familiarly with the people than in Sweden. This
makes the contraft the more ftriking; for it is a very different
thing to be admitted to the private fuppers given by the king, and
the other branches of the royal family, and to ftand as a {pectator
at the public exhibition at court. The king gives fuppers in a
domeftic and friendly way, twice, and fometimes three times a
week. On opera days thefe parties are at the royal apartments in
the opera-houfe: on other days, at an elegant palace called Haga,
or the Hague, not quite a Swedifh mile diftant from the north-
gate of Stockholm, fituated on the border of a lake in the midft
of a wood: this was the favourite refidence of his late majefty.
It was in a {mall pavilion, in a corner of the gardens of Haga,
where the king is faid-to have formed the plan of the revolution
in 1772; and that fpot is ftill much vifited by the curious, as
being
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