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326 COXE’s TRAVELS IN DENMARK.
‘pointment, and roufe him from his defpondency ; of her refufal to accept an honour-
able fettlement offered by the ftates of Denmark, and of her noble an{wer, ‘‘ that the’
had rather live with her hufband in banifhment, than reign without him *.”’ She fur-
vived his depofition only three years, and died in the palace of Ghent, in 1526. Anne of
Denmark, fifter of Chriftian the Fourth, and queen of James the Firft. Several of
Charles the Firft, one in his princely robes, when a boy of fifteen, and another by Van-
dyke, when a young man.
The chapel is a handfome apartment, but more remarkable for coftlinefs than tafte.
The walls are hung with the efcutcheons of the knights of the Elephant, the firft or-
der in Denmark ; as is the gallery with the efcutcheons of the knights of the order of
Danebrog.
The palace of Friedenfberg, four miles from T’rederic{borg, is delightfully placed at
a {mall diftance from the lake of Efferom, a piece of water fifteen miles in circumfe-
rence. I fcarcely ever beheld a fituation more capable of improvement, and wifhed
for a difciple of Brown to lay out the ground. But this beautiful fpot is/fpoiled (if it
can be {poiled) by cut yews, ftraight walks, a profufion of ftatues and triumphal arches,
where nature and fimplicity are expelled ; for in thofe parts, on the oppofite fide of the
lake, where the grounds are covered with natural forefts, the fcenery is extremely beau-
tiful and picturefque.
The palace is a brick building ftuccoed white, confifting of a front, and two wings.
Tt was built by Frederic the Fourth, and called Friedenfberg, or the manfion of Peace,
becaufe it was finifhed in 1720, when the peace was concluded with Sweden, after a
long war which had defolated both countries. As a memorial of this event, a wooden
pillar, painted like marble, and a fimall ftatue of Peace, are erected in the area before
the palace, more expreflive of the fatisfa€tion with which Frederic gave peace to his
{ubjeéts, than of his tafte in feulpture. It bears this infcription: Paci /eatuam, arcem,
quodque reliquum fuit vite, dedicavit Fredericus Quartus, 1720 +; a promife which the
monarch inviolably maintained during the remainder of his reign, and which reflects
high honour on his memory, as he poflefled a fpirit of enterprife and undaunted cou-
rage. From this period he had leifure to attend to the internal regulations of his king-
dom, and to form ufeful eftablifhments, particularly the foundation of feveral country
{chools, which endears his memory to his countrymen.
Nothing more is wanting to render Friedenfberg a moft delightful fpot, than to re-
move the cut hedges, level the terraces, to permit the foreft trees to expand and grow ;
in a word, to leave nature to herfelf. In the garden is a curious aflemblage of {tatues,
placed regularly on circular terraces of earth, which are of {tone painted white, and re-
prefent the Norway peafants habited in their various drefles.
We did not attempt to requeft the permiffion of feeing the palace, as it is inhabited
by the Queen-dowager, Juliana Maria}; the place of her retirement, fince the Prince-
royal has taken into his‘hands the adminiftration of affairs.
Early the next morning we quitted the village of Friedenfberg, where we found a
neat inn, with comfortable accommodations, and returning by the palace of Fredericf-
borg, paffed on to Fredericfwerk, near the Ie-fiord, a bay of the fea, on the northern
fhore of Zealand, where General Clauffen has eftablifhed various manufaétories, a
foundery for cannon, and other works, for fupplying the Danifh army and navy with
% Mallet, Hift. des Dan, vol. ii. p. 277, 4to.
+ To peace, this ftatue, palace, and the remainder of his life, were dedicated by Frederic the Fourth,
3720. t+ The Queen-dowager is fince deceafed.
ftores.
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