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times. The fliirt worn by Guftavus Adolphus when, wounded in the neck at Defchau.The breeches he wore when foot in the thigh in Pruflia, with feveral parts of his drefs.In a fifth, ancient arms; the fluffed fkin of the horfe on which Guftavus Adolphusrod at the battle of Lutzen. The fucceeding apartments are full of faddles and equi-pages for carroufals : in one are the arms of the different provinces. The number ofcolours in this arfenal is immenfe : the firft fiery is a counterpart of the fecond ; herethe mufquets are kept, apparently to us, in very indifferent order : as we faw them atthe conclufion of a war, there were confequently very few of them new. All theapartments, and even the veflibules, were full of bales of cloth for the foidiers.
Note .—In order to be allowed the infpedtion of this part of the arfenal, permiflionmu ft be obtained from the prefiding general.
Park of Artillery. The place in which it is kept is very handfome, enclofed by threefides of buildings three ftories high; a fourth fide is to be built to complete thefquare.The great pile of buildings fronting- the entrance, contains the artillery and its perti-nencies, fuc’n as carriages, &c. In the third ftory are the tents, &c. Of the two.otherpiles of building, one is fet apart for the harnels of horfes, laddies, bridles, &c ; theother ferves for workfhops. In the court are kept balls, bombs, mortars, and cannon,without carriages. The number of cannon was inconfiderable, the whole of the batter-ing train being left in Finland , Each bataliion has one fix-pounder and two three-pounders when they take the field, with four men ,on horfeback to each fix-pounder,and two to each piece of three pounds. The men do not difmount when the cannon is.fired, but merely open from before its mouth. The quantity of powder ufed is alwaysequal to half the weight of the ball; this however is well underflood to be more thanfufficient, its ftrength being fuch as to make three eighths enough; it cofts the Kinglo rix dollars the cwt. The mufquets, five rix-dollars 16 fkillings. There are threemanufaftures of them, Norkieeuping,Nortelje, andSoeuderhamn, to the north of Gefle.We faw in the court a Polifh cannon of brafs, terminating in a fquare, it appears tohave burft, and been tied together with cords. The workman (Id p of it is 'lingular ; itis not ufed. There are twelve companies of artillery at Stockholm , confiding of ninehundred and fixty men ; they are difperfed over the town in fuch manner, that the of-ficers are not obliged to have a general review of them mbre than once a month. Thereare eight artillerymen to each tent, but no more than fix foot foidiers, however theirtents are fmaller. In order to fee the park, you muft get allowance from General Sin-clair, the commanding officer.
Prifons. Thefe are three in number : that which we faw in the north fuburbs isfinal!; it is very near the large afylutn for orphans. The crown allows two fkillincsdaily for the maintenance of each prifoner. The prifons are built of brick, and arevaulted. We faw fome men who had fetters on their legs, but this was not for punifh.meat but fecurity’s fake ; they take* an airing twice daily. Their rooms are very near,we entered all of them, and particularly one in which were two men under capitalcharges for murder and forgery, one of whom had already been fentenced ; their coun-tenance was tranquil, notwithftanding their apartment was the condemned hold. Thewhole guard confifted of a baggage-mafter and two foidiers *. Thefe prifons have northat fhocking appearance which prifons ahnoft generally have. 1 he greateft punifhment
* Upon this occafioo, we could but refkdt on tlie difference of national chara&ers. In France , a prifonyo better, guarded, would inftantly be broke; with us both an internal and external guard are necef-tsry, good locks, and flout gratings. In fpite even of thefe precautions, bow frequent are attempts to^fcape, and how often do they lucceed ! This is not the only opportunity afforded us of making iimiiar*c 3 cciioas.
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