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REGNARD’S JOURNEY ‘TO LAPLAND. 147
‘ve were prefent at the ceremony of her baptiim. ‘There was on the occafion an open
table, and the prince, to difplay his fatisfaction, undertook to intoxicate all the court ;
and in a more merry manner than ordinary, made himfelf fo. He even incited them
by exclaiming, ‘ A gentleman has no courage if he do not follow his king.” He fpoke
the little French which he is poffeffed of to every body; and I obferved that he was
the only one at court who {poke it fo imperfeétly. All the Swedifh gentlemen have a
particular pride in {peaking our language perfectly. Count Stembock, Grand Marfhal
of the kingdom, the Rifroffe or Viceroy ; Count de la Gardie, the Grand Treafurer ;
Steinte Bielke, the Count Cunifmar, all fpeak French as elegantly as if they were
Frenchmen themfelves. ‘The Englifh Envoy performed wonders at this feaft, that is to
fay, he was firft drunk. The Envoy of Denmark, who had held the princefs in the
name of the King his mafter, immediately followed him almoft without reflection.
After him the whole company followed in the fame ftate. The ladies were alfo of the
party. The two handfome daughters of the Ri/frofé held the two ends of the pall
which covered the infant : they diftinguifhed themfelves among all the other ladies by
their beauty and politenefs of manners. We went fome days after to vifit Count de la
Gardie at Carfbery: his palace is regular, and being furrounded with rocks, and fitu-
ated on the borders of the lake, is one of the handfomeft in Sweden. ‘The proprietor
of this manfion, who is certainly one of the greateft Lords in the kingdom, has been
four months ago very ill treated by a reduction, as well as a great number of others :
he has loft more than eighty thoufand crowns by this re-union of property to the royal
~ domain.
The buildings of Stockholm are grand. ‘The houfe of the nobles, the palace of the
Riftrofé, that of the Grand Treafurer, and a great number of others, are worthy of
obfervation. I fhould have fpoken of the Louvre before all the other buildings; but
although it is no doubt the firft in the city, in confequence of the perfonage who inha-
bits it, we may fafely fay that it is only on this account, and in confequence of the
number of its apartments, that it deferves to be taken notice of : there are fome halls
which are magnificently enough furnifhed, but they are not calculated to make a palace 5
and it is impoflible to determine what are their fhapes.
We faw during our refidence here the execution of two fervants, who had been pre-
fent at the affaflination of a gentleman which their mafters had committed: they were
not the moft guilty, but they were the moft unfortunate. We admired the intrepidity
and fortitude of thefe men on their way to the feaffold ; they did not feem at all affected,
and {poke carelefsly to all the perfons whom they met: one of them was married ; his
wife {upported him on one fide, and a clergyman on the other.
At Stockholm we knew M. de Feuquieres, the ambaflador; M. de la Piquetiere, a
learned and very intelligent man; M. le Vaffeur, fecretary to the embafly, and fon of
an advocate in the rue Quincampoix; M. de la Chenets, and Father Archange, carme-
lite and chaplain of M——. Wealfo faw M. Bart, a corfair, who remained at Stock-
holm for the purpofe of recovering payment for fome prizes which he had taken from
the Danes and Lubeckers, and fold to the king, and which had been declared lawful.
At the hotel kept by Verfchal, a Norman, we knew M.jM. de Saint Leu, la Neuville,
Grandmaifon, matter of the horfe to the Count Charles Oxtftiern, Coiffard, furgeon,
and ——-—-——.
The mine called Coperberyt is the moft curious in Sweden, and is the fource of the
whole wealth of the country: although there are feveral other mines, this has been
always held in the higheft eftimation : no tradition tells the date of its being opened : it
is four days’ journey diftant from Stockholm. One defcries this mine long before one
oe: arrives
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