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Prince Royal, In the cemetry, the place is ftili pointed out where his body was firitdepofited, before it was fent to France . .

The Exchange. A pretty building near the caftle, on the market place; the mer-chants affemble on the ground floor, which is adorned with the buds of Baron de Sparre,High Governor of Stockholm , and Mr. Alftroeumer, a celebrated merchant; above isa l° n g gallery, wherein public balls are given every fortnight on Sundays, the price ofadmittance is 24 {killings each perfon : the court is generally prelent, The academyof eighteen holds alfo its public fittings here.

The Hall of the Nobles is in a large fquare, by the fide of Ridderholm (the ifland ofknights) ; the building is handfome, the ftaircafe of noble appearance. The groundfloor contains the portraits of the marfhals of the diet from 1632, in number twenty-eight ; thofe of the diets of 1786 and 1789, were not yet there : the hall in which thenobles affemble is on the firft ftory, it is tolerably handfome, notwithftanding its onlyornament is the efcutcheons of the nobility which cover its walls. Thofe of the mofl:ancient families are placed at the extremity, the others by gradation of anceflry, on theright and left up to the door, where thofe of the earlieft exaltation are placed. TheCount de Brahe occupies the mofi eminent ftation *. It is in this hall that the monarchgave proof of much addreis and prefence of mind at the diet of 1789.

The Town-Hotfe . The court of the magiltrates, at which the burgomafters prefide,is held here; the hall has nothing in it remarkable. The portraits of the high gover-nors, and feveral pleafing views of the neighbourhood of Stockholm , drawn by Mar-tyns,- being the only obje&s of notice.

Statue of Gufavus Vafa (fub pedeJ. This is a bronze on the fquare of the nobles,and before their manfion ; it was eredled by the body of the nobility, although, asits infcription imports, this mark of reverence was not afforded till after the lapfe of twocenturies ; it was executed by the French archbifhop, and poflfeffes nothing ftriking.

Equejlrian Statue of Gufavus Adolphus. This is before the opera houfe, in the north-ern fquare: it was eretfted the 15th May, 1791 ; the expence of tranfporting it fromthe worldhop of the fculptor to the place where it Hands, notwithftanding the (hortnefsof the diftance, was 6000 rix-dollars. The proportions of the horfe and ftatue areprecifely the fame as thofe of the ftatue of Henry IV. now thrown down at Paris . Itswhole weight is 150 fchippunds f. Behind it, below the ftatue, a large trophy is to befaifed, on which the bucklers and arms of the different people conquered by GuftavusAdolphus, are to be ranged ; around it will be placed medallions, reprefenting the fiveprincipal generals of this Prince: Banner, Tortenfon, James de Langardie, Horn, andSaxe Weimar . They are finiftied (the whole by the archbifop'), except the ornamentsbelow, and what remains to be fixed, which latter are by Sergell, who gave the defign,and has taken upon himfelf its completion. Below is to be the ftatue of Oxenftiern,diftating the life of the King to hiftory, which altogether, when finifhed, will have a

* His father was beheaded in 1756, on account of being a chief of the confpiracy formed in favour offl>e King : the fon 1 as not inherited the fentiments of his father, for he has conftantly adted. in oppofitiont0 Guftavus III., notwithftanding his being indebted to that Monarch for his recognition as firft Count inSweden, and notwithftanding the exiftence of a Brahe depended on a marked and very powerful prote :iion.What perhaps, without excufing him, may render him lefs culpable, is the alfurance oi his being ruled andperfuaded by his wife to follow a line of conduit no ways glorious for his reputation : it is alfo fit weIhould remark here, that Madame de Brahe, a poor provincial gentlewoman, deltined apparently to vegetatelr > obfeurity, has to thank the King for her being brought to court, and afterwards married to the firftnoble of the land. On this fubjedl we fhall make no reflections, leaving to the reader to comment on fuchoondudf as he will.

t Vide table of weights, 25,500 lbs. Englilh.

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