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THROUGH SWEDEN. 79
the royal family. Mr. Plommenvelt, willing to foften the order
as much as poflible, went up to the count and told him in con-
fidence, and as of his own accord, that it was not ufual for per-
fons of fuch a rank to appear with the royal family before they
had been duly prefented, and that therefore he took the liberty of
advifing him to confider the propriety of withdrawing, that he
might not run the rifk of giving offence to the king. But the
count, perhaps from fome private pique again{t Plommenvelt, an-
fwered him in a very peremptory and fharp manner, that he was
not willing to receive advice from him; and thus fent him back
to the king. The mafter of the ceremonies having failed in his
well-meant intentions, now afked his. majefty, whether it was
his pleafure that the counte{s fhould leave the room? Being an-
{wered in the affirmative, he informed the count in plain terms of
the king’s orders, which were inftantly obeyed. The ambaflador.
reported the whole affair to his court, and the confequence was,.
that for feveral years the emperor had no reprefentative at Stock-
holm. This mighty difference between their Imperial and
Swedith majefties was afterwards accommodated when Guftavus
travelled in Italy. The Emperor Jofeph at Milan paid him a.
vifit early in the morning, and waited in the antichamber till the
king was rifen. The firft words of Jofeph, who had really a great
deal of wit, though little wifdom, as well as a natural {prightli-
nefs and frankne{s of difpofition, were, «* Well, you fee how little
I ftand on ceremony.”’ After this difpute with the count and
countefs of Kaggyneck, the king of Sweden gave orders that, as.
the
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