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140 REGNARD’S JOURNEY TO LAPLAND.
anxious to poffefs this rich treafure, and particulary, the King of Denmark, for whom
it is very conveniently fituated. ‘This Prince blockaded it during the late wars with
five and twenty thoufand men; but feeing the number of auxiliary forces which arrived
from all quarters, he could do nothing more. He refigned, a fhort time after, for the
fum of two hundred thoufand crowns, all his pretenfions to this city. It is governed
by four burgo-mafters, and eighteen councillors. The ladies here are very hand-
fome, and cover their faces, according to the Spanifh fafhion. The Lutheran religion
is profeffed here, where they have a hollow pine a hundred years old. ‘Their operas
are pretty well reprefented, and I found that of Alcefte excellently performed.
The whole country is excellent, and very fertile. Their carriages are extremely
convenient, and the horfes are excellent, and run continually.
JOURNEY TO DENMARK.
FROM Hamburg, we fet out for Copenhagen, whichis about a hundred and twenty
leagues diftant from it. At Pinnenberg, three miles from the city, we faw the Queen
mother of Denmark, who was going to the waters of Pyrmont with Prince George her
fon, and younger brother of the King. From Pinnenberg, we proceeded to Ifloe,
Renfburg, Flenfburg, Affen, Niebury, Caftor, Rochild. The latter was formerly
the refidence of the Danifh Kings. Their tombs are {till to be feen here; that of
Chriftian the Firft is beautiful. We faw the model of his ftatue, and it was with
difficulty that] reached up to it.
The Queen mother is of the houfe of Lunéburg. She went to the camp to fee the
young Queen, with whom fhe is by no means on a friendly footing ; and fhe would not
receive the vifits of the ambafladors, becaufe they vifited the young Queen before
her.
All the above-mentioned towns are handfome: the women carry all kinds of bafkets
made of very fine twigs, upon their heads. At Affen, I loft a portmanteau.
Frederic the Third was the firft King under whom the kingdom became hereditary.
He was {fupported by the merchants of Copenhagen, who could not bear the tyranny of
the nobles. They encouraged him in his enterprize, and rewarded him with their
fervices. ‘The merchants and people were fo abufed by the nobles, that they could kill
any one of them, if they depofited a crown under the body of the deceafed. Frederic
did not attempt to take this privilege from the nobility ; but he ordained, that if a
merchant ora peafant killed a noble, in that cafe, they fhould place two crowns below
the dead body.
The coffin which contains the body of Frederic the Third, late King of Denmark,
and father of the prefent, is very rich, and covered with various pieces of workmanfhip
in filver. is
Copenhagen is very advantageoufly fituated on the Baltic fea. Itis a frontier town
onthe fide of the Province of Schonen, and fuftained a fiege very vigouroufly, during
two years, again{t Guftavus Adolphus, the father of Queen Chriftina, whom we have
feen at Rome. The fpires of Sainta Maria bear the marks of this fiere.
The Louvre is a very ordinary building, covered with brafs, which was formerly the
refidence of bifhops, when the King’s court was held at Rochild. The ftable is very
handfome, and very long, and contains a number of excellent horfes ; and the riding-
houfe, which is near it, isa very cuvious ftructure. It was here that the rejoicing took
place when the Queen of Sweden left Copenhagen.
There are no buildings worth looking at in this city, if we except the palace of the
Queen mother, the garden of the King, and that of the Duke of Guldenleu, which is
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