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which they are heated are, in great houfes, 
of porcelain, in the form of vafes, which, 
befides their ufe, are an ornament to the 
yoom. _ Weood is -burnt in Copenhagen, 
but in fome parts of Slefwick, Holitein, 
and Jutland, they burn turf; this is a bad 
fubfitute for wood, as the fmell is unplea- 
fant: {weet herbs and lavender are gene- 
rally placed on the ftoves. In their houfe- 
hold economy the Danes are very cleanly ; 
jn this they refemble the Dutch more than 
any other people. 
The Court of Copenhagen is not fplendid, 
but quite enough fo for every ufetul pur- 
pofe; this is what the Government, which 
is praifeworthily economical, appears to 
have always in view. The Crown-Prince 
has a levee generally twice a week, but 
court-days are not frequent *. The Danes 
often converfe on politics ; on this fubjeét 
they differ very little in opinion, which 
during the prefent war-has been generally 
favourable to the caufe of liberty, however 
firange it may appear; for they certainly 
are very fond of titles, and” not without 
fome reafon, as they find their entrance to 
all companies facilitated by them. Even 
a merchant generally purchafes the title of 
a King’s Agent (Dan. Herr agént) which 
is the loweft order of nobility, but more 
refpe&table than the next above it, that of 
Charaberlain (Dan. Cammer-herr); this 
title may be eafily obtained, and indeed 
the acquifition ought not to be attended 
with much difficulty, as there is no other 
privilege attached to it, than that of 
wearing on all occafions a gilt key, tied 
with a blue firing to the back of the coat. 
The effeét of this appendage is truly lu- 
dicrous ; and toa ftranger can hardly fail 
of inducing\the remark, that if one of 
thefe zoblemen were to walk the ftrcets of 
London or Paris for an hour,or two, he 
would doubtlefs return home without the 
-$nfignia of his nobility. Such orders of 
nobility as thefe are a greater fatire on 
ariftocracy than bass that could be 
written on the fubjeét. 
* A circumftance happened one drawing- 
— yoom-day, which gave rife to fome conver- 
fation in the higher circles, and as it is a 
jeu-@efprit not generally known, it will, 
pehaps, bear the recital. On entering the 
drawing-room the foot of the French Ambaf- 
fador tripped, the Dutch Envoy attempted to 
fave him, but without fuccefs, and they 
both fell at the feet of Mrs. Crawfurd, the 
lady of the Englifh Chargé d’ Affaires: the 
Pruffian Miniter, then prefent, immediately 
exclaimed, Voila les deux Reépubliques @ aux 
piéds d” Angleterre! 
“ 
Aeccunt of Copenhagen, by Mr. Robert Stevens. [June ry 
The King of Denmark (Chriftian VII.} 
is, in the moft unqualified fenfe of the 
word, acypher. It is well know that his — 
intellects have, for many years, been de- 
ranged ; all that is feen of him in public 
is at the theatre, and fometimes walking 
‘in the ftreets, in which ‘cafes he has two 
attendants, who watchhim narrowly. He 
is very docile, and, unlike many in his 
fituation, he is feldom known to commit 
atts of extravagance. His derangement 
appears to be the effect of complete im- 
becility both of body and mizd, and his 
exiftence appears as if it were prolonged 
only to prefent to mankind a melancholy 
inftance of the effects of indulgence in pre- 
mature habits of debauchery *. 
The Crown-Prince is Prince-regent of 
Denmark. He was bornthe 28th of Ja- 
nuary, 1768.—In 1790, he married the 
Princefs of Hefle, daughter of the Prince 
of Heffe,: Governor of Slefwick and Hol- 
ftein. He is thin, and rather under the 
middle fize; his complexion is pale, and 
though his features are far from handiome, 
‘he has a pleafing countenance, and when 
reviewing the troops, or engaged in any 
interefling employment, his eyes are ex- 
preflive of much vivacity. His perfonal 
character is very amiable ; he is agreeable 
in his addrefs, appears to have no pride of 
birth, and is polite and attentive to all 
who converfe with him, but particularly 
to ftrangers. His moral and domeftic 
charaéter is very good, and though much 
difpofed to fociety, and fond of company 
and converlation, he is extremely tem- 
perate and abftemious. He feems to un- 
derftand, that in a country where the go- 
vernment is.arbitrary, and rank and titles 
are looked up to with veneration, all re- 
formation of manners muft originate in 
the higher claffes: he acts upon this prin- 
ciple, and in this refpeét, as well as in 
many others, he is a~pattern for meni 
in high fiations-in all countries; who, 
we haye daily occafion to obferve, rarely 
regard decorum, and the moral decencies 
of life, but leave them to the vulgar, as 
affairs beneath their notice. The Crown- 
Prince, happily for his country, has-not 
an enterprifing genius; but as a ftatefman - 
he poffeffes qualities which are of much 
more confequence to his people :—great- 
* When Chriftian VII. was in England, 
though even at that time he was known to 
be very deficient in underftanding, he was 
fervilely complimented with titles by our 
great feminaries of learning and of arts; and 
this monarch is aétually now LL.D. F.RS. 
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