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the royal family. Mr. Plommenvelt, willing to foften the order 
as much as poffible, went up to the count and told him in con¬ 
fidence, and as of his own accord, that it was not ufual for per- 
fons of fuch a rank to appear with the royal family before they 
had been duly prefented, and that therefore he took the liberty of 
advifing him to confider the propriety of withdrawing, that he 
might not run the rifk of giving offence to the king. But the 
count, perhaps from fome private pique againft Plommenvelt, an- 
fwered him in a very peremptory and fharp manner, that he was 
not willing to receive advice from him ; and thus fent him back 
to the king. The mailer of the ceremonies having failed in his 
well-meant intentions, now afked his majefty, whether it was 
his pleafure that the countefs fhould leave the room ? Being an- 
fwered in the affirmative, he informed the count in plain terms of 
the king’s orders, which were inftantly obeyed. The ambaffador 
reported the whole affair to his court, and the confequence was, 
that for feveral years the emperor had no reprefentative at Stock¬ 
holm. This mighty difference between their Imperial and 
Swedifh majeflies was afterwards accommodated when Guflavus 
travelled in Italy. The Emperor Jofeph at Milan paid him a 
vifit early in the morning, and waited in the antichamber till the 
king was rifen. The firft words of Jofeph, who had really a great 
deal of wit, though little wifdom, as well as a natural fprightli- 
nefs and franknefs of difpofition, were, “ Well, you fee how little 
I fland on ceremony.” After this difpute with the count and 
countefs of Kaggyneck, the king of Sweden gave orders that, as 
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