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HIRSCHHOLM.
Chap. XXII.
Hirschholm.* He grew up, lived to the age of seventy,
hale and active to the last, though thin as a skeleton.
In 1808 Frederic ascended the throne of his maniac
father. One of his first acts was to destroy and raze
to the ground the splendid palace of Madalena. He
hated its very name ; he had been too strictly kept there
in his youth. All Denmark grieved. A sale took place.
Fearful was the sacrifice of works of art; furniture,
china, once the property of three successive sovereigns,
sold for a song, many since repurchased at a heavy
price as historic relics for the castle of Rosenborg.
Much of the Vieux Danois china was purchased by our
late minister Sir H. Wynn, and sent to England. All
collectors and artists continue to deplore the ruthless
sacrifice of the collected treasures of Hirschholm. From
time to time objects turn up, and I have seenf a
splendid timepiece, of ebony, inlaid with Bristol stones
—a present to Queen Caroline Matilda on her marriage,
either from some English corporation or from her brother
King George III.—purchased for a trifie from a peasant
in the island of Bornholm. Nothing now remains but
the “ chapelle expiatoire ”—I can call it nothing less—
built from the stones of the outraged building.
But the sun is about to set: we must move on.
Supper in the garden of the hotel awaited us at
Kongsted. Before leaving we scrambled up the Ewalds
* There exists a series of engravings of Frederic VI. and his sister
Louisa Augusta, Duchess of Augustenborg and mother of her Majesty
the Queen Dowager, playing in the rooms and gardens of Hirschholm,
when under the domination of Queen Juliana. Nothing can be more
ungraceful than the costume or the children.
t In the possession of Mr. Ramalls, English vice-consul at
Copenhagen.
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