Excerpt from Memoirs Relative to the Campaign of 1788, in Sweden
The unexpefted journey of the King of $wea-i den to Copenhagen, at the beginning of this year, occafioned a great fenfation in Europe. This Prince, who, from his youth, had been brought Up in principles inimical to Denmark; 'whofe almolt republican nation was at that time divided into factions, of wl'llcl'i that called the Bonnets oppofed the interefis of the Court, and was ar tach'ed t-o Rufiia, to England, and to Denmark; this Prince, I fay, difplayed all his rhetorick and political talents, at Copenhagen, to detach our Court from her ancient, clofe, and natural alliance with Rufii'a; and to induce'her to unite hetfelf intimately with that of Sweden. Our Count, being animated with the molt ardent idefire of preferving an uninterrupted peace in the North.
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