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BIOGRAPHY. 
Anecdotes of the Prince Rovauof DEN- 
MARK, from “ Letters writen in Swe- 
den, Norway, and Denmars,” by, Mrs. 
Wollfioncraft. . ' 
6 SN the vear 1788, he travelled 
- through Norway; and aéts of mercy 
gave dignitv to the parade, and intereit 
to. the Soy, his pretence oo At 
this town he pardoned a girl condemned 
to die for murdering an illegitimate 
child, a crime feldom committed in this 
country. . She is fince married, and be- 
come the mother of a family. 
This might be given as an inftance, that 
a defperare aétis not always a proof of 
an. incorrigible depravity of c character ; 
the only plaufible excufe that has been 
brought for rward to juftify the in#i¢tion 
of capital punithments. > 
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&< T will relate two or three other anec-- 
otes to you ; for the truth of which I will 
not youch, becaufe the faéts were not of 
fuficient confequence for me to take 
much pains to’afcertain them ; and, true 
or falie, they evince that the people like 
to make a kind of miftrefs of their 
prince. 
«An ‘eee mortally wounded at the 
ill-advifed batrle of  Quiftram, defired to 
ipeak ihe the fin ice 3 ‘and, with his 
dying breath, earn:tly recommended to 
his care a young woman of Chriftiana, 
to whom he was engaged. When the 
prince returned there,” a ball was given 
by the chief inhabitants. He inquired 
whether this unfortunate girl was in- 
ited; and requefted that fhe might, 
The girl 
ef the fecond ciafs. 
retty ¢ and ‘fin nding her- 
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Criors, bat ak fuily fat 

down as near the door as poffible, ell: 
taking notice-of her. Shortly after, the 
prince entering, immediately. enquired 
for her, and afked her to dance, to the 
mortification of the rich dames. After 
it was over, he handed her tothe toprof 
the room, and placing himfelf by her, 
fpoke of the lofs fhe had fuftained, with 
tendernefs, promifing to provide es any 
one fhe fhouid marry—as the ftory goes. 
She is fince married, and he has not for- 
gotten his promife. 
A little-girl, during the fame expedi< 
tion, in Sweden, who -informed him-that 
the logs of a bridge were cut? under- 
neath, was taken by his orders to Chrifs 
tiana, and put'to fchool at his expence. 
‘«“ There is a houfe of correétion -at 
Chriftiana for trifiimg mifdemeanors, 
-where the women are confinedve labour 
and imprifonment) even for life. The 
fiate of the prifoners was reprefented to 
the prince; in confequence of which, 
he vifited the arfenal and houfe of ‘cor- 
re€tion. The flaves at the arfenal were 
loaded with irons of great weight ; she 
ordered them to be lightened as much. 
as poilible. 
‘¢ The people in the houfe of correction 
were commanded not to fpeak to him; 
but four women, condemned to remain 
there for life, got into the paflage, and 
fell at his feet. He granted them a 
pardon; and inquiring refpeéting the 
treatment of the prifoners, he was in- 
formed that they were frequently whipped 
going in, and going out; and for any fault, 
at the difcretion of the infpe€tors. This 
cuflom he humanely abolifhed; though 
fome of the principal inhabitants, whofe 
fituation in life had raifed them above 
the temptation of ftealing, were of opi- 
nion, that thefe chaftifements were ne- 
ceffary and wholefome. 
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