DENMARK. 
ars esha the joy which they felt at having crufhed their 
oppreffors, rendered them in ena the chains 
was alfo forced to reftore the 
duchy of Holt fea duke Albert, whom he had treacher- 
oufly detained at Rendfburg, and whofe poffeffions he had 
ded 
invade n 
mper any, the king of 
Sweden, and the republic of Holla d, ‘Albert was alfo con- 
firmed in the poflefion of Sle 
Chriltian V. died ia a "Hie fucceflor Frederick IV. 
jealous . a increafing rival power of Frederick duke of 
Holttei ho had married the fifter 2 Charles XII. of 
Sweden, ‘aid fiege to Tonningen, which the duke had fortified 
with particular,care. Charles XIE, eae upon oe his 
inv would 
brother-in-law, d Denmark, an taken 
Copenhagen, had AoE the Danifh ing ie to ie peace 
of Travendahl, which was concluded i 00, in favour of 
the duke, But fortune having at ere deferted Charles, 
ne a — of ae ae aftonifhing fucceffes, his general, 
as for o throw ae onningen, 
whit Charles was an ee at ae circumftance 
occafioned a new war fe) Fre rick, the brother- 
in-law to Charles, had been Killed at the oa of Cliffau in 
1702. His fon "Charles Frederick, a minor, reigned under 
the guardianhip of his uncle Chriftian Auguftus, bifhop of 
ubeck. When Tonningen opened its gates to Stenbock, 
the king of Denmark accufed the houfe of Holftein Got- 
weden, and occupied the duchy 
At the death of Charles XII. the you 
duke claimed the Swedifh crown, but was forced to yield to 
Ulrica Eleonora and Frederick of Heffe Caffel,’ her hufband. 
The king of Denmark concluded a peace with the young 
duke: in 1720, by which he kept poffeffion of Slefwick, and 
reftored only part oa oat in. As isa ioe a dd dal 
thefe terms, and a obfervation of the 8 gu 
yanteed by En gla and and France, Charles Frederick fabmitted, 
but folemnly 
He foon after aie the eldeft daughter of the czar Peter 
the Great ; in 1741, their fon Peter Ulric was no- 
aii by the emprefs Elizabeth, heir to the Ruffian do- 
minio 
After the death of Frederick IV. his fon, Chriftian Fre- 
king of England, in 1738, about the lordfhip of Steinhorft, 
in which fome blood was dane terminated in a darth by 
which Great Britain paid a fubfidy of 70,0001. fterling a- 
year, on condition that Denmark fhould keep 7000 troops 
on foot for the protestion 0 anov 
Chnitian VI. died in 1746, and was , fucceeded by his fon 
Frederick V . three years before, had married’ the 
i ngland. fitted: 
mproved upon his father’s. 
ey for the happinefs of his pee but the new financial: 
and commercial regulations which he introduced were 
, chiefly the work of count Schimmelmann. He took no con- 
rnin the feven years’ war in Germany ; yet it was through. 
his mi rest that the capitulation of Clofter Seven was 
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agre a between the late duke of Cumberland and the. 
French genera Richelieu. Some time after the death of his 
firft » who was ae mother of his fueceffor, Chriftians 
VIL, aren erick V. mar a daug of th e of: 
his- 
Branfwick Woleibureel: 
oe Peter Ulric of Holftein, who- had afcended the throne- 
of Ruffia, revived his ania to = whole of Sielieine 
and the duchy of Slefwi His. m 
estas —_ prepared 
Rom ordered to enter into Helen ut he: 
had en ed his deflation when Peter loft his crown 
and his . 
continued to 
in Ruffia, the court of Copenhage 
to the court of St. Peterfburg relative 
the remaining part of Holftein Gottorp againft the counties 
of Oldenburg and Delmenhorft: but whilft the count 
Ernft Bernftorff, minifter of foreign affairs, was zealoufly ex- 
erting himfelf in the sccomplifhment : this proje&, Frede- 
rick V. died on the 14th of January 
His fon Chriftian VII. ignalaea i ‘acceffion to the 
throne by the emancipation of the peafants on the royal 
demefnes, who till then had been held i in a flate of dependence 
not far ra of flavery. A provifional convention was 
trowitz, as heir 
eter ric, had atisined ie 
treaty by his figna 
Chriftian VIE. ae the Englifh princefs Caroline 
Matilda, youngelt fifter to king George III. But his want of 
firmnefs, and the intrigues of the queen dowager his mother- 
in-law, invelved the young queen in the moft ferious mif- 
proper ie to ratify the 
an unbounded me 
not without a fhar 
ass political As ae rafhly bees to Introduce the Gok 
expected reforms, which ea him an hott of aes 
amon Deaf t 
partments or the ttate a 
aged officers attached t 
y of anin ere oe rthro 
- ay eee the king on the foore of i one. — de- 
ing 
