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fixteen fluted columns, which, as well as the reft of the body of the theatre, whichforms a demi-circle up to the ftage of forty feet in diameter, are gilt. In the apartmentof the Princefs, the late King’s After, is the buft of a woman veiled, compofed of threedifferent kinds of marble. In that of the Queen is a lmall copy of the Borghefe her-maphrodite. In the reading-room, two vafes of Ruffian marble. The moft remark-able contents of this chateau are its numerous colledtion of portraits of the Princesand Princefies of Europe , fince the time of Guftavus Vafa ; it is very confiderable, yetnot complete. In a long gallery, which ferves as a dining-room, are the portraits of thedifferent Sovereigns contemporary with Guftavus Vafa ; and in the faloon, which is alarge rotunda of more than forty feet in diameter ; in the great tower are thofe of theSovereigns who reigned at the time Guftavus III. afcended the throne. The firft, thatis to fay thofe of the time of Guftavus Vafa, are Francis I. King of France , taken in1542, when forty-eight years of age. Sigi/mundl. King of Poland , who died in 1548,eighty-one years of age. The Emperor Maximilian , 1519 (the year of his death,) fifty-nine years old. Charles V. Emperor and King of Spain when thirty years of age, in1530; he died in his fifty-eighth year. Ferdinand I. King of Hungary and Bohemia ,aged twenty nine years, 1531, he died in 1564. Lewis II. King of Hungary and Bo-hemia , killed in battle in the year 1525, in his twentieth year. Frederic, Duke andElector of Saxony, 1525; he died aged fixty-two. John, Duke of Saxony , died in1532, in his fixty-third year. Joachim, Margrave of Brandenburg, died 1571, fixty-fixyears old; was painted in 1547. Henry , Duke of Brunfwick and Lunenburg, died in1578, feventy-nine years old. William, Count Palatine of the Rhine, died in 1550,fifry-feven years old. George, Duke of Saxony , died in 1539, fixty-eight years old, hislikenefs taken when fifty-nine. „ Eric, Duke of Brunfwick ; he died in 1540; feventyyears of age, painted when 63. Henry, Duke of Saxony , died in 1541, fixty-eightyears old, painted when fifty-eight. Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin , diedin 1572, ninety-three years old, painted in 1534. Albert, Duke of Mecklenburg,died in 1547, fixty years old. Atidrew de Greti, Doge of Venice, died at the begin-ning of the 16th century, painted in 1533. Stephen Schlick, Count of Baffau. George ,de Fronfberg, eques auratus. Philippe, Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin , died in 1557,at forty-three years, painted when twenty. Chriftopher, Duke of Wirtemberg , died in1568, painted when eighteen. John II. junior, Count Palatine of the Rhine and DeuxPonts , died in 1534, fifty-one years of age. «M?z,femor, Count Palatine of the Rhineand Deux Ponts , died in 1604, fifty-four years old. Wolfgang, Count Palatine of theRhine, died in France in 1569, forty-three years of age. John, Margrave of Braden-burg and Pomerania , died in 1571, fifty-eight years old, was painted when eighteen.Bene, Count de Naffau, Prince of Orange, painted when thirteen years old. Ernejl,Duke of Brunfwick and Lunenberg, died in 1546, forty-nine years old. Philip, Land-grave of Ideffe, he died in 1567, aged fixty-three years, painted when thirty. Ulric,Duke of Wirtemberg , Count de Montbeliard, died in 1550, aged fixty-three years,painted when forty-fix. Joachim, Margrave of Brandenburg, Duke of Pomerania , diedin 1535, aged fifty-one years. John Frederic, Duke of Saxony , died in 1534, agedfifty-one years. Henry VIII . King of England, who died in 1547, aged fifty-fix years,painted when fifty-one. Guftavus I. taken in 1542. Eric XIV. Thofe of the grandrotunda, are Guftavus III.; Jofeph II.; Catharine, of Ruffia; George III . King ofEngland; Ferdinand IV. King of Naples; Maria Frances Ifabella, Queen of Portugal ;Chriftian VII. King of Denmark ; Lewis XV. King of France; Charles III . King ofSpain; Abdulhamid, the Turkifh Emperor ; Staniflaus Auguftus, King of Poland ;Frederic II. King of Pruffia ; Victor Amadius, King of Sardinia ; the Emprefs Maria

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