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Chap. X..
CHARLOTTENBORG.
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of no great beauty, but interesting, in an historical point
of view, to us English; for here resided our Princess
Louisa, with her husband then Crown Prince; and here
was born her eldest daughter, Sophia, the beautiful
Queen of Sweden. Charlottenberg was founded by
Ulrik Frederic Gyldenløve, the Field-Marshal,
halfbrother of Christian V., who conferred upon him the
castle of Kalø we passed on our way from Aarhuus,
where he only slept, however, one night: disgusted at
being surrounded by an inundation, he hurried off as
fast as he could, and, carrying his castle, or rather the
materials, with him, constructed the present palace, which
he later sold to the widowed queen of Christian V.,
from whom it derives its appellation.
The Newhaven (Nyhavn) Canal, crowded with
shipping, runs up to the very entrance of the palace. Passing
by the Thott Palace, now the hotel of the Russian Minister,
a building of some architectural pretensions, within whose
walls are contained the small but valuable cabinet of
pictures, chiefly of the Dutch school, the property of
the Moltke family, we reach the St. Anna Plads, a
promenade lately planted with trees, at the end of which
is a wooden jetty, from which the steamers embark and
disembark passengers for Lubec, Kiel, and fifty other
localities. Copenhagen, like her sister London, is sadly
in want of quays. You arrive anyhow, nohow: but
great improvements are contemplated.
Observe that tower in the dockyard opposite,
surmounted by a crane. There, after the bombardment of
1807, stood the English Admiral, while he
superintended the destruction of the Danish vessels still
uncompleted and in the stocks. A splendid eighty-four
was destroyed among the rest, and from its remains
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