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THROUGH FINLAND. 207
confifting of a little fong compofed by a peafant girl, the fervant
of a clergyman, who met with a difappointment in an affignation
with her lover. I fhall prefent the reader with this piece in
another place, when I come to fpeak of the genius of the Fin-
landers for poetry. |
Admiral Heding is one of the moft diftinguifhed men in Swe-
den for talents, in the ‘department of the marine. His prefent
majefty does not feem to make a proper eftimate of his merit,
perhaps on account of the attachment he fhewed to the Duke of
Sudermania, during his late regency. The admiral’s conyerfation
is infinitely interefting, accompanied however with a dry frank-
nefs of manner, which on different occafions has been of preju-
dice to him at court. He is known in Sweden for his perfonal
courage, for his talents, for his lively repartees and box mots. He
has ferved in the French, Englith, and Spanifh fleets, and fpeaks *
all thofe languages with equal fluency, befides the Swedifh and
German ; the laft is his native tongue. Guftavus III. entertained
the higheft opinion of his character, and in confideration of his
eminent accomplifhments could forgive the franknefs of his con-
verfation, and even his bon mots, though fometimes they were a -
_hittle too highly feafoned for the palate of a king. In the affair
of Wiburg, when Guftavus fuffered himfelf to be blocked up,
Admiral Heding’s frigate, called /a Fo//e, not being there, he told
the king that he thought he fhould henceforth name her /a Sage ;
and when his majefty demanded his reafon—‘‘ becaufe,” faid he,
«fhe was too wife to get into the fame {crape with the reft of
« the fleet in the gulf of Wiburg.”
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