GUSTAVUS. 
Europe, and trained a fet of generals who long maintained 
e 
a 
ued national renown. Many of our own countrymen fe preferments, nor honours, feemed capable of ‘acagiaal 
ader him, and brought home, and pra@ifed the difcipline animofity. In diet which met in January 1789, 
ent Sher had learned. ufual, and, in general, unmeaning, congfatulations and 
sustavus III. king of Sweden, fon of Adolphus compliments were pafled ; but it was foon perceived that 
c and Louifa chigeas filter of Frederic II. king of nobles were not only far from bein difpofed to coincide 
Piaffia, w as born on the 2 
of Jan. 1746, and educated 
under the care of the celebried count Telfin. He fueceeded 
his father in the year 1771; and at the period of his ac- 
ceffion to the: throne, the fupreme authority, in confequence 
ef abufes which had crept into government, refided in a 
tumultuous aflembly of four orders, into which were 
— tradefmen, and even afants Sg ita 
king was, in fhort, i 
or two great parties, which divided 
mfe elves. 
He wasa wary, 
as oot as a bold ee determined man ; aid he concerted 
meafures fo dexteroufly, that the plan was carried into 
execution in the courfe of a fe 
ealt fhi 
N. ing elf drew 
bes of the new conftitution, by Shacks he had the 
power of convoking and diffolving the gre of the 
itates as sick as he a, He had the fole 
pats navy, 
r 
e on no fabjedt except thofe 
which were firft propofed by the king. By thefe, an 
gther articles of a fimilar tendency, did Guftavus become 
ene of the moft defpotic monarchs, | _being the mo 
limited and even abject of fovereigns. 
power thus 
obtained, it has been gene admitted, was em loved for 
the good of his fubjects. He took care that the law thould 
adminittered with ftri@ im 
the rich ; and made a 
: who ie the sg when they were, by a age, 0 
ae duties. De 
abe) 
te owing Gt 
aad which will b 
Ss 
with the king’ $ views, regard 
to the terms on which they flood with him. They feemed 
anxious to effe& a counter revolution ; 
king, .in cs 
and demanded fatiofabtion 
ee 
For three ia s Stockholm was ina 
ftate of confufion, but on the feurth, viz. on the 20th of Fee 
bruary, the horfes of all the nobility were furrounded at the 
fame inftant, and the nobles them{elves eing ed were 
fent prifoners to the caftle of Frederickthof. From this 
a 
moment Guftavus bot sed the fenate and fupplied its ae 
by a new court, which was endowed with large powers, but 
fubjeét entirely to the king. The nobles continued fil 
difcontented, a a confpiracy was planned again Guttavus 
his own itor} he had entered into the alliance that was 
formed ae the Fevolutionary government of France ; and 
to raife an army which he was to Eg Se in gap to co-opt 
rate with oe Pe ie and iin he was 
to large loans, and to Lege on ti fubjedts ge 
taxes. The nobles took advantage of that circumtt 
ear, Sad affuring bine 4 t 
querade for which he was Bactde he would be 
that very night. The kin ing read ' i 
and at a a late hour entered the ball reo 
Gie to retire to oaliee = 
had | prev 
wounded Hg 
os ae | 
My 
ee "The king vat tye tes 
eS gency, ss convinced, “by recent experience, now Tittle d . 
