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146
COPENHAGEN.
Chap. X.
along the banks of the Sound, on some days teeming with
ships from all ports and climes. To the left rises the
citadel, with its moats and fortifications; you can visit it
if you will;—it affords a charming walk. Forewarned
is forearmed, saith the proverb; and before trusting
yourself to the seduction of ijts ramparts, call in mind
that it is circular in form, and wander not round and
round (as I did on my first visit) like a horse drawing
water in a well, or a bewildered cockney in the maze
of Hampton Court.
At a distance from the land may be discerned the
far-famed battery of the Three Crowns (Trekroner), the
construction of which was scarcely commenced in 1801;
it rose only à fleur d’eau. Guns however were planted on
it, and did good execution against the fleet of the enemy.
We return again by the Toldboden into the
Bredgade, near the centre of which stand to the right, in a
vast deserted place, now used as a stonemason’s yard,
the ruins of the marble Frederiks Kirke—remaining,
and for ever I imagine likely to remain, uncompleted.
This church was commenced in the reign of
Frederic V., after the splendid designs of Jardin, a French
architect. The State could ill afford the erection
of so expensive a building, and Struensee stopped the
works, actuated, doubtless, by praiseworthy motives
of economy: as it was, he only disgusted the
public by the dismissal of some hundred workmen,
gained the ill will of the clergy, and the sums of
money economized by him were wantonly lavished by
Count Brandt * in illuminations and court fetes of un-
* A more singularly unpleasing face than that of Count Brandt
I seldom recollect to have seen depicted,—proud and discontented.
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