FORTIa’s TRAVELS IN SWEDEN.

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fmall terraced court, of two hundred and fixty feet, from one pavilion to the other, byone hundred and thirty-eight; this ought to be a garden : it has handfome marble ba-lifters as well on the quay (or lower) as on the oppofite or higher fide. The pavilionsto one ftory have nine windows infide and as many on the quay ; the lower part of thepavilions was intended for an orangery, but is appropriated to other ufes; it is in ar-cades.

The chapel is very handfome, and well ornamented; it is one hundred and twenty-five feet by forty-two, with a gallery all round; the ftaircafe leading to it is of marble.The flairs are moftly very handfome; the fiabs of {tone of which the flights are formed(fome of them marble) are very beautiful.

The cha?nber of the ftates is oppofite to the chapel, and is precifely of the fame dimen-fions ; it is ninety-five feet from the door to the throne, which is thirty feet diftant fromthe extremity of the room. The throne is afcended by eight fteps, owing to the rowsof feats with which the chamber is furniflied, being raifed one above the other, as in an,amphitheatre, from the entrance. The nobility occupy the right of the King, the clergy,,burgefles, and peafantry the oppofite fide: it is entirely furrounded by a gallery withfeats; this apartment is both elegant and noble. Adjoining is that in which the ordersof knighthood meet, which is fucceeded by the two chambers in which the fenate for-merly affembled. In the former of thefe three rooms are four pidtures in tapeftry,which reprefent the battles of Charles XI. , given to that monarch by Lewis XIV.

The King's apartments. The apartment in which the King has his couchee in theevening is compofed of a grand fquare faloon, adorned with pillars of wood gilt, onwhich are two ftatues. Apollo and Venus Callypigi ; the face of the latter is that ofCountefs Hoepken : thefe ftatues are of the natural fize in marble, and were fculpturedby Sergell. They front each other, with their backs towards looking-glafies. To thisfucceeds a large faloon, the furniture of which is of French velvet; this is an elegantapartment, contains a number of plates of glafs, and fix bufts of the reigning family bySergell. From this faloon you enter a fmall clofet, which ferves as a paflage into thegallery; in it is a bafon of marble, fupported by three feet of a couchant lion, a veryancient piece, and three antique ftatues, Pifcennius Niger, Juno, and a young man witha fwan holding a ferpent in its beak; the gallery contains a number of fine paintings.Two children by Rubens. The Judgment of Paris by Coypel . Venus and Adonis byhe Moine, which with the preceding make a pair ; both are beautiful, and do honour tothe French fchool. The four Evangelifts in the fame pi&ure, by Vandyke or Valentin ,very fine. The Virgin by Giordani, the colouring rather too high. Sigifmond onhorfeback, by Rubens , exquifite. It was bought at an inn by Mr. de Teffin for a ducat.A dead partridge, a finifhed performance of Hondecater. Venus and Adonis, by Van-dyke , appears as if the painter had had fome other intention on beginning the piece.Adonis has very much the appearance of Jefus dead, and being carried to the fepulchre;the head of Venus refembles that of the Magdalen by Le Brun. A number of verypleafing Flemilh pieces; fome by Wouvermans. St. Jerome by Vandyke ; this paintinghad received confiderable damage, which has been repaired. Ulyffes and Ajax per-fuading Achilles to take up the caufe of the Greeks; a very fine painting, by Laireffe .A phiiofopher with a book in his hand, a precious jewel of Rembrandt ; in this is givena mcft beautiful eft eel of light. Mercury, faid to be by Rubens , bought at the cultom-houfe at Antwerp . A fine piece of gamefters playing, of the fchool of Vandyke ; it isfaid to be a repreientaiion of the family of Charles I. A butcher ripping up an ox, byTeniers , a fubjedt which he has frequently treated. A likenefs of De Witt, the grandpenfionary, a very handfome painting, attributed to Vandyke. The family of Rubens ,

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