Memoirs and Correspondence (Official & Familiar): With a Memoir of Queen Carolina Matilda of Denmark and Account of the Revolution There in 1772. Edited by Mrs. Gillespie Smyth. in Two Volumes, Volume 1
Memoirs and Correspondence (Official & Familiar): With a Memoir of Queen Carolina Matilda of Denmark and Account of the Revolution There in 1772. Edited by Mrs. Gillespie Smyth. in Two Volumes, Volume 1
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ...perpetual indignities, if not to private torture; but as the privilege was withdrawn, after the judicial investigations began, it has been hinted that threats at least of the latter severities were employed to extort confessions from Struensee. But we must not allow these interesting It will be recollected that she had ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ...perpetual indignities, if not to private torture; but as the privilege was withdrawn, after the judicial investigations began, it has been hinted that threats at least of the latter severities were employed to extort confessions from Struensee. But we must not allow these interesting It will be recollected that she had made a present of equal value to Count Rautzau. 1-A sum fully equal to the decent supply of his wants; and said to be equal in Copenhagen, in 1772, to twenty shillings in London. details respecting less illustrious victims of the conspiracy (Brandt having, as before mentioned, been meantime arrested, after an obstinate resistance, by Colonel Beringshiold, and General Gahler and his lady, who had that evening formed the King's card party, been placed in arrest) to detain us longer from its most daring and unprecedented feature. " The most dangerous and important act of the enterprise still remained to be performed--that of arresting Queen Carolina Matilda. After retiring from the ball, she continued for some time in her own room, before she went to bed, occupied in nursing her little daughter, who was still at the breast. Struensee's chamber being situated under the Queen's, the noise made in seizing his person was indistinctly heard by her Majesty. She by no means, however, attributed it to the real cause. On the contrary, imagining that the disturbance was occasioned by the company which, as she knew, was to meet in the apartment of Madame D'Osten, and which party she concluded had been transferred to Struensee's, she ordered one of her women to go down and request them to be less intemperate in their mirth, as they would otherwise prevent her from taking any repose. The woman did not return, the noise cea...
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