32S COX-e’s TRAVELS IN DENMARK .

pointment, and roufe him from his defpondency; of her refufal to accept an honour-able fettlement offered by the dates of Denmark , and of her noble anfwer, “ that fhehad rather live with her hufband in banifhment, than reign without him *.” She fur-vived his depofition only three years, and died in the palace of Ghent, in 1526. Anne ofDenmark , filler of Chriftian the Fourth, and queen of James the Firft. Several ofCharles the Firft, one in his princely robes, when a boy of fifteen, and another by Van-dyke, when a young man.

The chapel is a handfome apartment, but more remarkable for coftlinefs than tafte.The walls are hung with the efcutcheons of the knights of the Elephant, the firft or-der in Denmark ; as is the gallery with the efcutcheons of the knights of the order ofDanebrog.

The palace of Friedenfberg, four miles from Fredericfborg, is delightfully placed ata fmall diftance from the lake of Efferom, a piece of water fifteen miles in circumfe-rence. 1 fcarcely ever beheld a fituation more capable of improvement, and wifhedfor a difciple of Brown to lay out the ground. But this beautiful fpot is fpoiled (if itcan be fpoiled) by cut yews, ftraight walks, a profufion of ftatues and triumphal arches,where nature and fimplicity are expelled ; for in thofe parts, on the oppofite fide of thelake, where the grounds are covered with natural forefts, the fcenery is extremely beau-tiful and picturefque.

The palace is a brick building ftuccoed white, confiding of a front, and two wings.It was built by Frederic the Fourth, and called Friedenfberg, or the manfioriof Peace ,becaufe it was finifhed in 17 20, when the peace was concluded with Sweden , after along war which had defolated both countries. As a memorial of this event, a woodenpillar, painted like marble, and a fmall ftatue of Peace, are eredted in the area beforethe palace, more expreflive of the fatisfadlion with which Frederic gave peace to hisfubjedls, than of his tafte in fculpture. It bears this infeription : Pad Jlatuam, arcem ,quodque reliquum fuit vitce, dedicavit Fredericas Quartus, 1720!; a promife which themonarch inviolably maintained during the remainder of his reign, and which reflectshigh honour on his memory, as he poffeffed a fpirit of enterprife and undaunted cou-rage. From this period he had leifure to attend to the internal regulations of his king-dom, and to form ufeful eftablilhmenls, particularly the foundation of feveral countryfc-hools, which endears his memory to his countrymen.

Nothing more is wanting to render Friedenfberg a moft delightful fpot, than to re-move the cut hedges, level the terraces, to permit the foreft trees to expand and grow ;in a word, to leave nature to herfelf. In the garden is a curious affemblage of ftatues,placed regularly on circular terraces of earth, which are of ftone painted white, and re-prefent the Norway peafants habited in their various dreffes.

We did not attempt to requeft the permiflion of feeing the palace, as it is inhabitedby the Queen-dowager, Juliana Maria J ; the place of her retirement, fince the Prince-reyal has taken into his hands the adminiftration of affairs.

Early the next morning we quitted the village of Friedenfberg, where we found aneat inn, with comfortable accommodations, and returning by the palace of Fredericf-borg, paffed on to Fredericfwerk, near the Ife-fiord, a bay of the fea, on the northernfhore of Zealand, where General Clauffen has eftablifhed various manufactories, afoundery for cannon, and other works, for fupplying the Danifh army and navy with

* Mallet, Hift. des Dan. vol. ii. p. 277, 4*0.

■J To peace, this ftatue, palace, and the remainder of his life, were dedicated by Frederic the Fourth,20. t The Queen dowager is fince deceafed.

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