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28 TRAVELS
trate our prefent fubject, and fets that mixture of courtly forma~
lity and royal condefcenfion, of which we have been fpeaking in
a ftrong light, may perhaps not be thought unworthy of being
mentioned in this place. In the reign of the late king, the coun-
tefs of Kaggyneck, wife of the Auftrian ambaflador at Stockholm,
being entitled by her birth to be faluted on the cheek by the em-
prefs of Germany, and the princeffes of the Imperial family, would
not fubmit to any other ceremonial at the court of Stockholm.
Inftead of this, to kifs the hand of the queen and princeffes of
Sweden, fhe held beneath her dignity: for this reafon, till thefe
important points fhould be adjufted, her prefentation at court was
deferred. But the countefs, who was young and {fprightly,
thought that fhe might at leaft enjoy the amnfement of the
aflembly, efpecially at a time when it was expected to be very
much crowded, every one being defirous of {eeing the queen, whe
had but lately come abroad after the birth of the prince royal.
She was introduced to the afflembly by her hufband. That fhe
might have a better view of the room, fhe was placed in one of
the balconies; and whether from chance or defign very near the
one ufually occupied by the queen. The king had no fooner en-
tered the room, than he was ftruck with the fight of the Countefs
of Kaggyneck; and confidered her appearance, and the place fhe
had chofen, as a fort of defiance to the rules of the court. He
therefore commanded Mr. Plommenvelt, who was mafter of the
‘ceremonies, to tell Count Kaggyneck that it was not proper for
his lady, in the prefent circumftances, to be in the fame room with
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