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tures are placed againft the piers between the windows ; in the firft the Poles, by PrinceHoniefpolki their reprefentative, take the oath of fidelity to Field Marihal Count Witten-berg, a-circumftance which took place on the 16th October, 1655. The fecond repre-fents the paffage of the Little Belt on the 30th January, 1658, and the defeat of theDanes by Charles X. in the ifiand of Funen. The third, the paffage of the Great.Belt on the 7th February, 1658. The fourth pictures the ceremony of Count Potofki, asdeputy from the Poles, tendering the oath of fidelity to Count Douglas , on the 3d No-vember, 1655, at Sandomir . The next apartment is full of family pieces. A numberof rooms fucceed, in one of which fome handfonle tapeftry of th € Gobelins, the lad anantichamber, containing hunting pieces. On the large flair cafe, the nine Mufes inmarble, natural fize, Apollo and Minerva the fame, all modern. Many buffs in mar-ble. On the landing place between the windows, in bronze, a Centaur carrying off - ayoung girl, and Mercury with a lion. Two apartments, the one a reading clofet, theother a card room with blue furniture; this laft has a ftove in it with Chinefe figures,prefented by the Emprefs of Ruffia. A painting reprefenting His prefent Majefty, thenPrince-royal, on horfeback, led by a page, painted by Breda a Swede, now in London .Charles XII . on foot. Eighteen portraits, principally of his generals, fome of thofe ofCharlesXI . Three battle pieces, one the fight of Helfinburg in j 71 ©, the other the inva-fion' of Zeeland in 1700. A gallery correfponding with that before defcribed, contains afimilar number of paintings, reprefenting the victories of Charles XI. ; over the door isCharles XI . followed by Count Dahlberg , galloping up to the left wing of his army,with which he drove the Danes from off the field on the 4th December, 1756. Ad-joining is a large painting which reprefents the battle of 7 ttes-hed, near Rmunneberga hillsin Scania, where Charles XI . obtained a victory over Chriftian V. On the principalwall, four large pictures of the battle of Lund, in which Charles XI . attacked the Da-nifh army four feveral times in as many different pofitions, and defeated it on the 4thDecember, 1676. Near the oppofite door a large piece, the battle of Halmjladt, whereCharles XI . beat the Danes near Fyllebro, the 17th Auguft, 1676. Over the door,Charles XI. is feen occompanied by Generals Afchenberg and Dahlberg, cutting theirway through twenty one fquadrons of the enemy’s cavalry to aflift the left wing of hisarmy on the 4th December, 1676. Between the windows, the battle of Rugen on thegth January, 1678, in which the Swedes under general Konirigfmark , entirely defeatedthe Danes and their allies. The fiege of Malmoe , with Chriftian V. before the town,on the 6th June, 177. A picture of the paffage of the Gamtha river effected by CountGuftavus Stenbock, and owing to which the Danifli General Dunham was obliged to raifethe fiege of Bohus on the 19th July, 1678. Another difplaying the Dane and Norwe-gian forces combined before the town.

There are a number of fmall apartments at the end of this gallery, (in one of whichon the floor, were the likeneffes of the King of France and the Emprefs of Ruffia,)Which are to hang together in a gallery, wherein is to be exhibited the different battlesfought in the reign of Guftavus III.: Defpres is charged with the execution of this plan.There are to be eleven pieces, of the names of which this painter holds a lift. A grandfaloon almoft fquare, which formerly ferved as a Jiall of affembly for the ftates, isIntended to be magnificently decorated under the dire&ion of the fame artift.

The play-houfe is without the caftle; it coft 66,000 rix-dollars building: the benchesrife in an amphitheatre, and there are no boxes, unlefs indeed a few clofe to the ftagefor the King, Princes, &c. It is a very handfome faloon thirty-eight ells in length byfeventeen wide, and twenty-feven high. The attors and actreffes have all of them apart-ments either within the building or adjoining. The gardens are pleafant. The ifland

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