THROUGH SWEDEN. 
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country, buried under everlafting fnow and ice, without inns, 
poft-horfes, or roads, he may be Surprized to meet with many 
public regulations and eftablifhments which he did not expeft ; 
but when, on the other hand, he Suffers himfelf to be impofcd on 
by the groundlefs fuppofition of finding in that country fuch ac¬ 
commodations as in France or England, he will be miferably dis¬ 
appointed. It would not be very w r ide of the mark to fay, that 
the truth lies, as ufual, between the two extremes, but inclining 
rather to the fide which is unfavourable. 
In order to make the journey from Helfingburg to Stockholm 
more interefting, you fhould take the route of Gothenburg 
and Trolhiitta. Before you come to Gothenburg, you pals 
through Warberg, a Small village with a fortrefs. Situated on the- 
edge of the Sea. Here the Swedifh government confined the 
famous General Peckling, fufpedled of being an accomplice in the 
murder of Guftavus III. This man was of the party in opposi¬ 
tion to the king in 1 756 , being at that time in the pay of Ruffia. 
In 1762 , when he had become a penfioner of France, he was 
on the fide of the court. In 17 / 2 , when having the rank of 
colonel in the army, he betrayed an intention to excite his regi¬ 
ment to mutiny; but he was arrelled at Enkoping, conducted to 
Stockholm,* and after the death of Guftavus, fhut up in the 
* According to the author of the Life of Catharine II. and the Travels of Two 
Frenchmen , he was taken to Griplhohn. and confined in the caflle, which ferved 
formerly as a prifon for Eric XIV. This however is a miftake. The caftle of 
Giipfholm is at prefent utterly uninhabitable, having neither roof nor cafements. 
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