majefty being entered, the bishop of Lindkioping pronounced the words, Bleed be jhe who cometh in the name of the Lord; after which the next eldest bishop read a prayer. Her majefty being feated on the throne prepared for her, all the reft of the bishops went into the choir. After divine fervice was perform ed, the coronation mufic began again, during which the two princes conducted the king from his throne to the altar. His majefty being feated in the filver chair, and furrounded by all the fenators, and the ftandard of the kingdom being placed behind the chair, the grand chamberlain, affifted by the other chamberlains, took off the mantle of prince royal, which the king wore, and it was laid upon the altar: at the fame time, the archbishop and the president of the chancery took the royal mantle from the altar, and put it upon the king's fhoulders; upon which his majefty kneeled before the ftool on which the Bible was laid, the mufic ceafed, and the Bible was opened by the archbishop at the first chapter of Jofhua. The king then laying three fingers on the Bible, took his coronation oath. This ended, the archbishop took the anointing horn, and, the king kneeling, he anointed his majetty's forehead, breaft, temples, and both hands, repeat ing, at the fame time, the prayer ufual on this occafion. The anointing being finifhed, the king rofe, and feated himself in the chair: then the fenator count Horn' aflifted the arch ihop to take the royal crown from the altar, and to place it on the king's head, the archbishop reading the form of prayer for this ceremony; after which the fenator baron Renter holm took the fceptre, from the altar, which he, together with the archbishop, delivered to the king, and another prayer was read, The ceremony of crowning the king being finished, the fenior grand marshal of the court gave notice to the heralds appointed for that purpofe, to proclaim that Guf tavus the Third was now crowned King of Sweden and Gothland, with the provinces thereunto belonging; he and no other. The guns were next fired from the artillery and the admiralty, 113 cannons from each, and then the heralds proclaimed, Long live King Guftacus! Afterwards the bishop of Abo chanted a prayer at the altar, with the bleffing. Immediately after the bleffing the king left the chair, and went to his throne, clothed in the coronation mantle, with the crown on his head, the fceptre in his right hand, and the globe in his left. The queen was then anointed and crowned with the fame ceremonies as the king had been; after which the heralds proclaimed, Long live Queen Sophia Magdalena! 1 After the ceremony was over, the proceffion moved out of the church in the fame order in which it had entered. As foon as they were returned to the palace, the king's rent mafter threw out money to the populace, and feveral hogfheads of wine, &c. were diftributed among them. About nine o'clock their majef ties fupped in public, in the great hall of the kingdom, which was richly ornamented and magnificently illuminated. On the first of June, when the different orders of the ftate came to do homage, and to take the accuftomed cuftomed oath of fidelity, his majefty, in his fpeech upon that occafion, faid, “Affured of your hearts, moft fincerely propofing to merit them, and to fix my throne upon your love and felicity, the public engagement, which you are going to enter into, would, in my opinion, be needlefs, if ancient cuftom, and the law of Sweden, did not require it of you:-Unhappy the king who wants the tye of oaths to fecure himself on the throne; and who, not affured of the hearts of his fubjects, is constrained to reign only by the force of laws, when he cannot by the love of his fubjects." Particulars relating to the Sentence and Execution of the State Criminals in Denmark. ON N Saturday the 25th of April, the Committe of Enquiry proceeded to pronounce fentence against John Frederick Struenfee, and Enevold Brandt, which was accordingly prefented to the Privy Council, without his majefty's at tendance. In the afternoon the Privy Council met again; in the evening, towards feven o'clock, the King arrived from Charlottenburg, and prefided at the CouncilBoard, when, after confirming the fentence, he went directly to the Italian Opera. Same day, at twelve at noon, both the prifoners were acquainted, by their Counsellors, with their fentences. Struenfee received and read his with extraordinary composure, which naturally aftonithed all thofe prefent; to whom he obferved, they ought, as he did, to impute it to his conftant "apprebenfions, and his long preparations for his unhappy fate."-His uneafinefs appeared nuch greater, when he found Brandt's fentence equal to his own. Brandt alfo feemed tolerably refigned on hearing his fentence; but the following morning his fpirits totally funk, there being no barber fent, as ufual, to fhave him. Meff. Munter and Hee, have been, fince Saturday, feldom abfent from Struenfee and Brandt. Both prifoners delivered into their Counsellors hands, on their leaving them on Saturday laft, two letters, one for the King, and one for the Committee of Euquiry. Yesterday they both received the Holy Sacrament. five Struenfee's fentence takes up full theets of paper: Among the charges therein contained against him are, his having aflumed too great a power to himfelf; his injuring the King's treasure for more than fixteen tons of gold; his forging (or falfifying) a draught; his difcharging the guards; the fufpicious arrangements he had been ordering within the walls of the city, &c. Brandt's fentence exprefsly fays, That, on account of his defigns agitated immediately against the facred perfòn of his Majefty, the exceptions he made could not be admitted, and was therefore declared guilty, and condemned. Towards the conclufion of their fentence is added, in virtue of the Danish Law Book, B. vi. C. 4. Art. I. "That both Count John Frederic Struenfee, and Count Enevold Brandt, having made themfelves guilty, and, as an example to others, ftand justly condemned to forfeit their honours, lives, and property, and are entirely degraded from the dignities belong belonging to their titles of Earls, their Earls coat of arms is to be broken by the hands of the common hangman. This being done, their right hands thall be cut off; next their heads; then fhall their bodies be quartered, and laid upon the wheel, and their heads and hands fixed upon iron spikes." The aforefaid dead warrants were executed the 28th of April, in a field without the Eastern Gate. A fcaffold was erected, nine yards in height, and eight yards fquare, whither both the prifoners were carried in hackney coaches: in the first went the Attorney-General, and some attendants. Brandt appeared firft on the fcaffold; he had on a gold-laced hat, a green fuit of clothes, with gold binding, and boots. He spoke for fome little time to the clergyman, Mr. Hee, after which the fentence was read, and executed; his head was feveral times expofed to the view of an immenfe crowd of spectators. Next appeared Struenfee on the icaffold, accompanied by Dr. Munter, having his hat in his hand, and dreifed in a blue fupertine fuit; he spoke to Dr. Munter, and, when done, his fentence was executed in every fhape like the foregoing one; their corpfes were carried to the ufual place of execution to be there expoted. Struenfee behaved very penitently; but this cannot be faid of Brandt, for his whole conduct was remarkably bold. Several files of foldiers and failors guarded the fcaffold, and the town guards were alfo reinforced. Though immenfe numbers were, for want of room, disappointed of feeing this execution, and all feeming, for a while, in a violent ferment, yet the whole went off undifiurbed and quictly. The crimes they were charged with, are as follow: Struenfee was accused of having embezzled from the King's coffers a large fum amounting to 125,000l. fterling; of having iflued many orders from the cabinet without the King's knowledge; of having been guilty" of criminal converfation with the of having fecreted from the King feveral letters fent to his Majefty, &c. Count Brandt was accufed of having been privy to Struenfee's criminal converfation, and all his other crimes, without divulging them, and having laid violent hands upon the King's Majetty, &c. Extract of a Letter from the Manritias, of the lofs of the Verel Eaji-Indiaman. "MR. Walter Browne, lately a paflenger with me, being now going to Europe in a different thip, makes it uncertain which will arrive first ; therefore fent you the following thort melancholy account by him, viz. I was ditpatched from Bengal the third of March, after which was unfortunately wrecked here the 25th of laft April about twelve at midnight. Betides the total lofs of the Verelft, and all the cargo, five-and-twenty people were unfortunately drowned in attempting to get through a tremendous furf, much larger than that at Madrafs, which we were all obliged to pafs through before we could receive any aliftance from the French, who durft only venture to the edge of it (no boat being able to live a moment in the furf) and their anchor between that and the the land, which was full four miles diftant from thence. Our fituation was fuch, that in all probability every foul among us would have perifhed, but for the affiftance of the French, who did every thing in their power to fave as many of us as poffible, and in our landing behaved with the greatest tendernefs and humanity imaginable to us all. "I remained on board two days and nights, after the fhip first funk, and in a fituation too dreadful and horrid for pen to defcribe, with the furfs continually battering and making a fair breach all over us. The 27th at 5 P. M. found the fhip began to feparate and part at midfhips, the decks were before all fallen in holes fore and aft; had feen the chief mate, and feveral others, taken up the day before by the French boats, who could not come within half a mile of us for the furf; likewife faw fifteen people drowned in attempting to get through. Our fituation was then become desperate: to continue longer by the wreck had no appearance of fafety, and to quit her was certain immediate deftruction to fome of us. In this dreadful dilemmaI preferred the latter for the moft expeditious and probable means of deliverance; accordingly quitted her upon a large raft of fpars, booms, &c. as well fpread, fecured, and lafhed together, as our unhappy circumstances would admit of, which we had all along referved for the laft ftake. Mr. Gruchen, Mr. George Williamfon, Mr. Matthew Miller, and Mr. Martin, paffengers; Mr. Baldock, fecond officer; Mr. James Collins, Midshipman; myb brother and others, to the number of fifty in all (determining to fhare the fame fate with me) came away at the fame time; Mr. Martin, and Thomas Harrison, caulker's mate, being too eager in getting on the raft, were drowned along-fide the wreck. Large and ftout as our raft was, the furf overfet it before we had got half through, and turned us all adrift, by which misfortune poor Mr. Matthew Miller, Mr. James Collins, and five others, were drowned. My brother, Mr. Gruchen, Mr. Williamfon, Mr. Baldock, and others, to the number of forty-one of us in all, fortunately ferambled on the raft again after it was overfet, and got fafe to the French boats, who were waiting ready to take us in. "When first we ftruck, there were 126 fouls on board in all, 101 of whom were faved, and 25 perifhed. Thank God we loft no more, for a French fhip, being wrecked in the fame place a few years ago, had only nine people faved out of 250. 66 Being obliged, for felf-prefervation, to quit the wreck without a coat to my back, I had no opportunity of faving a journal, or any papers to aflift me in making out a regular lift of every body's names that were on board; thofe of all the drowned I have given you in the inclofed, and of those that were faved as far as I can recollect; which is all likewife but thofe of two foreigners, shipped at Bengal, whofe names I cannot remember." The hardships and misfortunes fuftained by a lady (Mrs. Grubar) after the Verelft was beat to pieces, are hardly to be paralleled. She was twice thrown off the raft that carried part of the crew on fhore, but by an uncommon exertion of fortitude THEREAS I, George, king rant under our royal fign-manual, bearing date the twenty-fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand feven hundred and twen ty-three; which faid tock was my proper flock, and fo vetted in and allowed to the faid Robert Walpole-only upon truft, and to the intent and purpose that he the faid Robert Walpole thould transfer and affign the fame, with all the dividends, produce, and profits thereof, to fuch perfon or perfons and to and for fuch us, intents, and purpofes as I, by any intirument in writing, or by my laft will and teftament, or by any writing purporting my lat will and tellament respectively, to be figned by credible witneties, fhould direct or me, in the prefence of two or more appoint: and until fuch direction or appointment fhall be made by me as aforefaid; or in default thereof, that the faid Robert Walpole W of Great Britain, France, should be and remain poffeffed of and Ireland, &c. am pofleted of and entitled to ten thousand pounds capital ftock of the Governor and Company of Merchants of GreatBritain, trading to the South Seas and other parts of America, and for encouraging the fithery, dom. monly called South Sea flock, as in and by the books of the faid Governor and Company may and deth appear. And whereas twelve thoufand nine hundred and eightyfix pounds two fhillings and two pence of the faid capital flock of the faid Governor and Company is reited in our right truity and well beloved counsellor Robert Walpole, Efq; and for which laft mentioned fock the faid Robert Walpole has credit given him in the books of the faid Governor and Company, by virtue of our war the faid twelve thousand nine hundred and eighty-fix pounds two fillings and two pence capital ftock, and the produce, profits, and dividends of and for the fame, on truft for my fole ufe and benefit, and for no other ufe, intent, and purpose whatfoever. And whereas it is my will and defign to give and difpofe all the fud capital ftock, as well that of which I am poffefled, as that which is vefted in the faid Robert Walpole, in trufi as aforefaid, from and after my decease, together with all the dividends and profits that fhall be then due and in arrear for the fame, to Ehrengard Melufine, Duchels of Kendal, to and for her fole ufe and benefit: and for that purpose only I have thought fit to make this my lait will and teftament. Now I do hereby |