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He retired to Upsal for two winters, and cultivated 

 the acquaintance of the learned men, attended lectures, 

 &c., whilst in fact he was busy planning the Finland 

 war, which surprised not only Eussia, but all Europe. 



He came to dine at Ekolsund, and seemed quite 

 degagS. Walked about with Seton, and pointed out 

 the improvements required about his place. That 

 afternoon he set off, and travelling with his usual 

 despatch two Swedish miles an hour, arrived at Hed- 

 mora in the morning, where he harangued the Dale- 

 carlians, and raised them for the relief of Gottenborg. 

 This rapid mode of travelling he always used. He 

 had his bed in his coach, and undressed regularly at 

 night. He used, if going too slow, to put down the 

 window, and ask the coachman (Molman) " whether 

 he was carrying eggs to market." That evening Seton 

 asked one of the lords who was w T ith him where they 

 were going; but he told him, " we know nothing more 

 about it than you do." He laughed much at English 

 liberty, and hated the English, admiring and copying 

 the French in all things. When setting off from 

 Ekolsund, happening to talk of the safety of travelling 

 in Sweden, he said : " By the way, Seton, how can the 

 King of England possibly allow highway robberies \ 

 Were I there I'd order three or four regiments of horse 

 to patrol the roads ; but oh ! that would be reckoned 

 an infringement upon liberty:" with a sneer and laugh. 



De Lisle, the French consul, saw him at Gotten- 

 borg (in 1788), just as the accounts had come of the 

 order for assembling the States -General in France. 



