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THROUGH SWEDEN. gr
lieve him, that he immediately fettled his worldly concerns, and
never went out any where in his carriage without firft faying his
prayers, and making other preparations, that he might be ready
on a minute’s warning to proceed on his celeftial journey. I will
not vouch for the truth of this report; but it is certain, that the
extreme credulity of the court in this as well as other things, en-
couraged impoftors to practife all poffible tricks and artifices. A
young officer, who had not any friends of rank or confequence on
whom he might depend for promotion, had recourfe to the fol-
lowing ftratagem for interefting the regent in his favour, and
raifing his own fortune. He went in the dead of the night to
the royal palace of Drottningholm, and wounded himfelf rather
feverely in the arm with a piftol : immediately on the difcharge
of the piftol he gave the cry of murder! and perfuaded every body
that he had been fet upon by two ruffians, who had miftaken
him for the Duke of Sudermania, whom they had intended to
affaffinate. The duke very much affe@ted by this incident, and:
at the fame time moved with compaffiortfor the poor man, who:
he imagined had fuffered in his ftead, made him a prefent in
money, and immediately gave him a commiffion in his own:
regiment. The fraud being afterwards detected the impoftor was.
hooted out of the army.
The prefent king of Sweden has adopted a mode of conduct
and ftyle of manners directly oppofite to thofe of his uncle, with
whom he has never lived in harmony. During the whole of the
N 2 regency.
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