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182] ANNUAL REGISTER

ordered the valet de chambre to awake the king; when they entered, and told his majesty, that the queen and the two Struensees were busy in drawing an act of renunciation, which the intended to force him to sign. The queen-dowager and Prince Frederick then told the king, that the only means he could pursue to prevent it, would be to sign orders concerned in the affair; which orders the Counsellor of State M. Guldberg, had made out some days before. The queen-dowager told the king, that, if he would not sign the orders, she and her son would; and, after some conversation, the king signed them. In consequence of this, Col. Koller, and Captains Maleulle, Frank, and Eiben, went to arrest Count Struensee, and, coming to his hotel, though the colonel had not the king's orders with him, he told him his errand. Stuenfee asked him, if he knew who he was? Koller answered, he was once the minister of the cabinet, but now his prisoner. Struensee wanted to see the king's order; but Koller said, he would answer with his life that the king had ordered him to be arrested.
   "The queen was informed of her disgrace by a billet; immediately after the receipt of which Count Ranzau, accompanied by the Lieutenants Bay, Pech, and Oldenbourg, entered her apartment. The queen was almost distracted at her situation; she threatened Count Ranzau that he should lose his head, and would have gone instantly to the king; but Lieutenant Bay was posted at the door to prevent her. Count Ranzau then told the officers, that, if the queen was suffered to go to the king, it would cost them their lives. Her majesty, finding that her threats signified nothing, said that her conduct had always been conformable to her duty, but that of the officers had always been against it, (referring, as it is thought, to a design which was proposed by Colonel Nulsen, and other officers of the light troops, last summer, to pass an act of renunciation, if she would have agreed to it). Count Ranzau put her into a carriage, and she was conducted under an eschorte of 30 dragoons to Kronenbourg.
   "Prince Frederick is regarded at present as prime minister, and the queen-dowager holds the reins of governemnt.--A report having been circulated, that some accident had happened to the king, his majesty, attended by the queen-dowager and Prince Frederick, shewed himself at the window. At noon, the king, attended by the hereditary prince, went in a coach through the principal streets, amidst the acclamations of the people. In the afternoon the king held a court, and in the evening the city was illuminated.
   "During the late revolution, the people having pillaged above 60 houses, a royal ordinance was published to put a stop to such disorders.--Count Ranzau, Col. Koller, General Eichstedt, and all the other officers, who executed the king's orders for this night, have been promoted."

   The above relation was confirmed by the following letter, dated
Altena, Jan. 24,
"On the 17th inst. her majesty the queen, with the young princess and Lady Moystyn, under a guard

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a guard of 30 dragoons, were conducted to the fortress of Kronenbourg. The Counts Struensee and Brandt, the Counsellor Struensee, General Gahler and his lady, are likewise sent to prison. The Master of the Horse, Bulow, General Gude, Col. Falckenschiold, Lieutenant-general Hesselberg, the State's Secretary Zoega, Panning, and more, are arrested in their houses under strong guards. The papers belonging to the above-mentioned persons are sealed up, and commissioners are appointed to enquire into their conduct. His majesty gave all his orders relative to the above, after he came from the ball, at one o'clock in the morning, which were directed to be immediately executed.
   "Council Office. Pr. Frederick, Counts Ranzau, Tott, and Often; the Prince Charles and his lady, are ordered to attend.
   "Commissioners to examine the affair. Juel, Wind, Braem, Stampe, Lupdorf, Karstens, Sovel, Koford, Aucker.--Prince Frederick is to be Vicegerent.

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An Account of the Coronation of Gustavus the Third, King of Sweden, on the 22nd day of May, 1772.

THE ceremony began by the ringing of bells in all the churches in Stockholm, at eight o'clock in the morning, a lane being first formed by the horse and foot guards, by the regiment of Upland, and by several companies of burghers, both horse and foot.
   Immediately upon this, the senators assembled in the council chamber, in their senatorial habits; and those who were of the order of Seraphim wore their collars over their mantles; the other knights of this order, who were not senators, wore the collar and the mantle of the order.
   At the same time, the states of the kingdom came in procession to the royal palace, in the following order, viz. First, the order of peasants; next, the burghers; and then the clergy, with their respective speakers at their heads; and lastly, the grand marshal, at the head of the order of nobles, having before him to heralds as usual. The KING, in his robes, as prince royal, with the prince's coronet on his head, was mounted on a very fine white horse, which was a present to his majesty from the king of Denmark: his majesty rode under a canopy borne by several presidents, &c. and followed by a great number of officers of state, &c. Then came the procession of the QUEEN, preceded by two kettle-drummers and four trumpeters, on horse-back, and followed by a great number of heralds, &c. The queen was in the coronation coach, magnificently adorned, and drawn by eight of the most beautiful dappled Danish horses; the horses were led by eight captains of foot.
   On the procession's entering the church, the music began, and continued playing till all were placed. The king was received by the archbishop in his cope, having the anointing horn in his hand, and being attended by the other bishops in their copes. Upon his majesty's entering the church, the bishop of the Lindkioping pronounced the words, Blessed be he who cometh in the name of the Lord; whereupon the bishop of Scara read a prayer. The king place himself on his throne. Her majesty
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Transcription Notes:
eschorte [original spelling] - escort shewed [original spelling] - showed ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-05-12 12:22:49