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A CHARACTER OF THE PRINCE OF DENMARK. 
Continued from p. 40. 
Tuz above is the substance of several communications 
from an ingenious correspondent at Copenhagen. But as- 
it is always satisfactory to hear different opinions on the 
same subject, I subjoin with pleasure the follewing cha~ 
factersof the prince of Denmark, drawn by another gentle~ 
man in the capital of Denmark. 
* For the liberty we enjoy we are entirely indebted 
to our prince royal, who I can, with the greatest justice, 
ealla free born Englifhman. I do not give you his cha- 
racter from mere report, but as I have found it to be.. 
He is sincere, steady, and free ; not rafh in promising, but: 
scrupulously attentive to perform what he has once said.. 
In transacting businefs he is candid and open,—hears with 
attention,—is. not fond of too much elocution, but. wilhes ta- 
have free and candid discufsion, and directly to the. point. 
in hand. His hour of audience is five o’clock in the after-- 
noon. In one word, the prince royal of Denmark is a: 
character that would fhine in private life. As a prince,, 
his time is spent for the public good ;. and the enormous: 
expences that other princes ef Europe heap daily upon. 
their subjects are by him spared. He is. a pattern of 
ceconomy to his subjects, and appears to me to model: 
after the late king of Prufsia. Since he came to act ins 
government, which was in 1784, he has done more than 
the most sanguine could have expected, and which-is only. 
the ground work of what in future may be hoped for. The 
alterations necelsary ia. Denmark were so. great and nu- 
merous, that precaution, patience, and steady perseverance 
alone, could effect them. ‘These he began when he was 
i @ manner a child, and in. that. line he has steadily perse-. 
