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“ On the a8ih October, 1718, the King coming from the Weftern Ed, entered Nor-way , followed by the other columns of the army. On the 20th November, batterieswere raifed againft Fredericjhall. On the 27th, fort Gyllenlow was taken by alTault, atwhich the King was prefent. On the firft Sunday in Advent, the 30th November, theKing attended divine fervice in the morning, and afternoon at head quarters at Tijieda-ien : in the morning he burnt certain papers. At four o’clock in the afternoon the Kingvifited the trenches on horfeback, and at nine in the evening all was done, and the Kingwas a corpfe. Charles handing in the trench, his body bent, with his head fupportedon his arms leaning on the parapet, the officers prefent imagined him aileep; but as heremained in this poilure a longer time than ufual, they went up to him, and found thatlife was gone.” This is the account of Mr. Nordberg : others pretend that the engineerMegret, who had the direction of the works in the trenches, was feated fo near the Kingthat he perceived a kind of convulfive tremor in him, whence he concluded him dead.M. de Voltaire , whofe relation differs from that of others, fays that no one was near theKing but Megret and Siquier. “The King was handing,” fays he, “ oppofite to a bat-tery of the enemy, whence was a great difcharge of mufquet balls, with his body halfuncovered from the enemy’s fire ; at fome paces difiant was Count Baron Schwerin?Count Pojfe, a captain in the guards, Kqlbert an aide de camp, (it fhould be aide decamp general Kaulbars) was waiting his orders. All at once Megret and Siquier fawthe King fall on the parapet. A ball of half a pound weight had entered his head onthe right fide, and made fuch a large hole that you might put in it your three fingers;the left eye was entirely flattened, and the right forced out of its focket. When Megretfaw that the King was lifelefs he exclaimed : The play is over, now let’s to /upper; butSiquier haftened to inform Baron Schwerin, &c.” Colonel Carlberg, then Lieutenant-Colonel of Engineers, who was prefent alfo in the trenches, has given another relationdifferent from the preceding. “ When Colonel Megret, charged with diredling the at-tack, had marked a new line with fafcines and gabions at a diftance of no more than two-hundred ells from the bulwarks of the fortrefs; the enemy began a yiolent fire bothwith mufquetry and cannon: this was the firfl; time of their ufing mufquetry againftthe workmen in the trenches. The red hot balls and burning pitch on the fortrefs gavefufficient light' round about. Mr. Carlberg, after giving inftrudions to the men how toplace the gabions, went down into the firfl trench, where fome officers of high rankwere Handing clofe to the feet of the King, who leaned on the flope of the parapet ofthe trench, with his left hand under his jaw, fo that a part of his face was above theparapet directed towards the fortrefs. Hereupon a ball ftruck him on the left fide ofthe head, {this, from infpePtion made of the wound, is evidently fifed) without any othermovement being perceptible but that of his hand, which dropped from his jaw, and hishead which reclined on his cloak. The aide de camp. General Kaulbars, was the firftwho perceived the death of the King; he ftruck Carlberg on the fhoulder, and beggedhim to make hafte to relate it to General P. B. Schwerin , who diredled that it fhouldnot yet be made public, and that his body fhould be tranfported to head quarters. Hethereupon was put on a litter and covered with white cloaks. At this inftant Siquierapproached the litter, took the King’s hat, and put his hat and wig on him. The litterwas accompanied by Carlberg, and a Captain Schultz, (fince ennobled under the nameof Nordencrentz) to Tiftedalen, and the body was carried to the fame houfe where theKing had taken up his abode. After General Schwerin , the Duke of Hol/lein, FieldMarfhal Mceurner and General Diiker v\ re among the firft who faw the defunct. TheHereditary Prince of Heffe was then at Torpum, at the diftance of three quarters of amile from Tiftedalen, and on his arrival the whole army had orders to decamp.” Thus
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