N. B. Peers, peereffes, peers fons and daughters, and privycounsellors, were called over according to their respective ranks and degrees and several attended. The knights of the garter, thiftle and bath, who attended, wore the collars of their respective orders. At the entrance of WestminsterAbbey, within the church, the dean and prebendaries, attended by the choir, received the body, falling into the proceffion juft before Norroy King of Arms; and fo proceeded into King Henry the Seventh's Chapel, where the body was depofited on treffels, the head towards the altar, the coronet and cufhion being laid upon the coffin, and the canopy held over it, while the fervice was read by the Dean of Westminster; the chief mourner and her two supporters fitting on chairs at the head of the corpfe; the counteffes affiftants, and fupporters of the pall, fitting on ftools on either fide. The part of the service before the interment being read, the corpfe was depofited in the vault; and, the dean having finished the burial fervice, Garter proclaimed her Royal Highness's ftile as follows: "Thus it hath pleased Almighty God to take out of this tranfitory life, unto his divine mercy, the late moft illustrious Princels Augufta, Princess Dowager of Wales, and mother to his moft excellent Majefty George the Third, by the grace of God, King of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith; whom God bless and preferve, with long life, health, and honour, and all worldly hap. pinefs!" The minute guns of the Tower were fired as ufual. The following particulars were re lated of the late Revolution in Denmark; which we infert, as no authentic documents relative to that extraordinary tranfaction have hitherto appeared. N Letter from Copenhagen, Jan. 18. Otwithftanding the revolution which happened here in the night between the 16th and 17th of this month is no fecret, through the many couriers that have been fent from hence with this important news, yet the following circumftances deserve to be mentioned: "It is not true, as has been reported, that the Counts de St. Germain and Reverdil conducted this affair, but the Queen-Dowager Julia Maria was at the head of it all. She brought over General Eichstedt to her fide; and, having founded Count Ranzau, and found him difpofed to act against Count Scruenfee, who was his greatest enemy, the, by his means, prevailed on Colonel Koller, and the officers of his regiment, which was on duty that night, to join her party. The king was entirely ignorant of every thing that was pathing; for his majefty went from the masked ball, which was given at court that evening, at twelve o'clock, where he had danced and played at quadrille with General Gahler, his lady, and Counsellor Struenfee, Prince Frederick,the king's brother, was prefent at the ball, but not much attention was paid to him, and he did not ftay to fup there. "At four o'clock the next morning, Prince Frederick got up and drelled himself, and went with Queen Julia Maria to the king's apartment, who was afleep. They [N 3] ordered ordered the valet de chambre to awake the king; when they entered, and told his majefty, that the queen and the two Struenfees were bufy in drawing an act of renunciation, which they intended to force him to fign. The queendowager and Prince Frederick then told the king, that the only means he could purtue to prevent it, would be to fign orders to arreft the queen and the others concerned in the affair; which orders the Counsellor of State M. Guldberg, had made out fome days before. The queendowager told the king, that, if he would not fign the orders, the and her fon would; and, after fome converfation, the king figned them. In conlequence of this, Col. Koller, and Captains Maleulle, Frank, and Eiben, went to arreft Count Struenfee, and, coming to his hotel, though the colonel had not the king's orders with him, he told him his errand. Struenfee afked him, if he knew who he was? Koller answered, he was once the minifter of the cabinet, but now his prifoner. Struenfee wanted to fee the king's order; but Koller faid, he would anfwer with his life that the king had ordered him to be arrested. "The queen was informed of her difgrace by a billet: immediately after the receipt of which, Count Ranzau, accompanied by the Lieutenants Bay, Pech, and Oldenbourg,entered her apartment. The queen was almoft diftracted at her fituation; she threatened Count Ranzau that he should lofe his head, and would have gone inftantly to the king; but Lieutenant Bay was pofted at the door to prevent her. Count Ranzau then told the officers, that, if the queen was fuffered to go to the king, it would coft them their lives. Her majetty, finding that her threats fignified nothing, faid that her conduct had always been conformable to her duty, but that of the officers had always been againft it, (referring, as it is thought, to a design which was propofed by Colonel Nulfen, and other officers of the light troops, laft fummer, to país an act of renunciation, if the would have agreed to it). Count Ranzau put her into a carriage, and the was conducted under an efchorte of 30 dragoons to Kronenbourg. "Prince Frederick is regarded at prefent as prime minifter, and the queen-dowager holds the reins of government.-A report having been circulated, that fome accident had happened to the king, his majefty, attended by the queen-dowager and Prince Frederick, fhewed himself at the window. At noon, the king, attended by the heredis tary prince, went in a coach through the principal streets, amidst the acclamations of the people. In the afternoon the king held a court, and in the evening the city was illuminated. During the late revolution, the people having pillaged above 60 houfes, a royal ordinance was published to put a ftop to fuch diforders.-Count Ranzau, Col. Koller, General Eichftedt, and all the other officers, who executed the king's orders for this night, have been promoted." The above relation was confirmed by the following letter, dated Altena, Jan. 24. N the 17th inft. her majefty the queen, with the young princefs and Lady Moyftyn, under a guard a guard of 30 dragoons, were conducted to the fortrefs of Kronenbourg. The Counts Struenfee and Brandt, the Counsellor Struerfee, General Gahler and his Lady, are Jikewife fent to prifon. The Mafter of the Horfe, Bulow, General Gude, Col. Falckenschiold, Lieutenant-general Heffelberg, the State's Secretary Zoega, Fanning, and more, are arrefted in their houfes under ftrong guards. The papers belonging to the above-mentioned perfons are fealed up, and commiffioners are appointed to enquire into their conduct. His majelty gave all his orders relative to the above, after he came from the ball, at one o'clock in the morning, which were directed to be immediately executed. "Council Office. Pr. Frederick, Counts Ranzau, Tott, and Often; the Prince Charles and his lady, are ordered to attend. “Commissioners to examine the affair. Juel, Wind, Braem, Stampe, Lupdorf, Karftens, Sovel, Koford, Aucker. Prince Frederick is to be Vicegerent." An Account of the Coronation of Gustavus the Third, King of Sweden, on the 22d day of May, 1772. THE ceremony began by the ringing of bells in all the churches of Stockholm, at eight o'clock in the morning, a lane being firft formed by the horie and foot guards, by the regiment of Upland, and by feveral companies of burghers, both horie and foot., Immediately upon this, the fenators aflembled in the council chamber, in their fenatorial habits; and those who were of the order of Seraphim wore their collars over their mantles; the other knights of this order, who were not fenators, wore the collar and the mantle of the order. At the fame time, the ftates of the kingdom came in procettion to the royal palace, in the following order, viz. Firit, the order of peafants; next, the burghers; and then the clergy, with their refpective fpeakers at their heads; and laftly, the grand marthal, at the head of the order of nobles, having before him two heralds as ufual. The KING, in his robes, as prince royal, with the prince's coronet on his head, was mounted on a very fine white horfe, which was a prefent to his majelty from the king of Denmark: his najcity rode under a canopy borne by feveral pretidents, &c. and followed by a great . number of officers of fiate, &c. Then came the proceffion of the QUEEN, preceded by two kettledrummers and four trumpeters, on horie-back, and followed by a great number of heralds, &c. The queen was in the coronation coach; magnificently adorned, and drawn by eight moft beautiful dappled Danith hortes; the horfes were led by eight captains of foot. On the proceffion's entering the church, the mufie began, and continued playing till all were placed. The king was received by the archbifhop in his cope, having the anointing horn in his hand, and being attended by the other bithops in their copes Upon his majetty's entering the church, the bishop of Lindkioping pronounced the words, Bleed be he who cometh in the namė of the Lord: whereupon the bishop of Seara read a prayer. The king placed himfelf on his throne. Lier [N 4] majelty majefty being entered, the bishop of Lindkioping pronounced the words, Bleed be jhe who cometh in the name of the Lord; after which the next eldest bishop read a prayer. Her majefty being feated on the throne prepared for her, all the reft of the bifhops went into the choir. After divine service was performed, the coronation mufic began again, during which the two princes conducted the king from his throne to the altar. His majetty being feated in the filver chair, and furrounded by all the fenators, and the standard of the kingdom being placed behind the chair, the grand chamberlain, affifted by the other chamberlains, took off the mantle of prince royal, which the king wore, and it was laid upon the altar: at the fame time, the archbishop and the prefident of the chancery took the royal mantle from the altar, and put it upon the king's fhoulders; upon which his majefty kneeled before the stool on which the Bible was laid, the mufic ceafed, and the Bible was opened by the archbishop at the first chapter of Jofhua. The king then laying three fingers on the Bible, took his coronation oath. This ended, the archbishop took the anointing horn, and, the king kneeling, he anointed his majetty's forehead, breast, temples, and both hands, repeat ing, at the fame time, the prayer ufual on this occafion. The anointing being finished, the king rofe, and feated himfelf in the chair: then the fenato count Horn affifted the archbishop to take the royal crown from the altar, and to place it on the king's head, the archbishop reading the form of prayer for this ceremony; after which the fenator baron Renter holm took the fceptre, from the altar, which ne, together with the archbishop, delivered to the king, and another prayer was read. The ceremony of crowning the king being finished, the fenior grand marshal of the court gave notice to the heralds appointed for that purpose, to proclaim that Guftavus the Third was now crowned King of Sweden and Gothland, with the provinces thereunto belonging; he and no other. The guns were next fired from the artillery and the admiralty, 113 cannons from each, and then the heralds proclaimed, Long live King Gustavus! Afterwards the bishop of Abo chanted a prayer at the altar, with the blefling. Immediately after the blefling the king left the chair, and went to his throne, clothed in the coronation mantle, with the crown on his head, the fceptre in his right hand, and the globe in his left. The queen was then anointed and crowned with the fame ceremonies as the king had been; after which the heralds proclaimed, Long live Queen Sophia Magdalena! After the ceremony was over, the proceffion moved out of the church in the fame order in which it had entered. As foon as they were returned to the palace, the king's rent mafter threw out money to the populace, and feveral hogfheads of wine, &c. were diftributed among them. About nine o'clock their majefties fupped in public, in the great hall of the kingdom, which was richly ornamented and magnificently illuminated. On the first of June, when the different orders of the ftate came to do homage, and to take the accustomed customed oath of fidelity, his majefty, in his fpeech upon that occafion, faid, "Affured of your hearts, moft fincerely propofing to merit them, and to fix my throne upon your love and felicity, the public engagement, which you are going to enter into, would, in my opinion, be needlefs, if ancient cuitom, and the law of Sweden, did not require it of you :-Unhappy the king who wants the tye of oaths to fecure himself on the throne; and who, not affured of the hearts of his fubjects, is constrained to reign only by the force of laws, when he cannot by the love of his fubjects." Particulars relating to the Sentence and Execution of the State Criminals in Denmark. N Saturday the 25th of April, the Committe of Enquiry proceeded to pronounce fentence against John Frederick Struenfee, and Enevold Brandt, which was accordingly prefented to the Privy Council, without his majesty's attendance. In the afternoon the Privy Council met again; in the evening, towards feven o'clock, the King arrived from Charlottenburg, and prefided at the CouncilBoard, when, after confirming the sentence, he went directly to the Italian Opera. Same day, at twelve at noon, both the prifoners were acquainted, by their Counsellors, with their fentences. Struenfee received and read his with extraordinary compofure, which naturally astonished all thofe prefent; to whom he obferved, they ought, as he did, to impute it to his conftant "apprehenfions, and his long preparations for his unhappy fate."-His uneafinefs appeared much greater, when he found Brandt's fentence equal to his own. Brandt alfo feemed tolerably refigned on hearing his fentence; but the following morning his fpirits totally funk, there being no barber fent, as ufual, to fhave him. Meff. Munter and Hee, have been, fince Saturday, feldom abfent from Struenfee and Brandt. Both prifoners delivered into their Counsellors hands, on their leaving them on Saturday laft, two letters, one for the King, and one for the Committee of Enquiry. Yefterday they both received the Holy Sacrament. Struenfee's fentence takes up five full sheets of paper: Among the charges therein contained againft him are, his having affumed too great a power to himfelf; his injuring the King's treafure for more than fixteen tons of gold; his forging (or falfifying) a draught; his difcharging the guards; the fufpicious arrangements he had been ordering within the walls of the city, &c. Brandt's fentence exprefsly fays, That, on account of his defigns agitated immediately against the facred perfon of his Majefty, the exceptions he made could not be admitted, and was therefore declared guilty, and condemned. Towards the conclufion of their fentence is added, in virtue of the Danish Law Book, B. vi. C. 4. Art. 1. "That both Count John Frederic Struenfee, and Count Enevold Brandt, having made themselves guilty, and, as an example to others, ftand juftly condemned to forfeit their honours, lives, and property, and are entirely degraded from the dignities belong. |