Chapter I: Front Matter

LIFE AND TIMES

OF

HER MAJESTY CAROLINE MATILDA.

LIFE AND TIMES

OF

HER MAJESTY

CAROLINE MATILDA,

QUEEN OF DENMARK AND NORWAY,

AND

SISTER OF H. M. GEORGE III. OF ENGLAND,

FROM FAMILY DOCUMENTS AND PRIVATE STATE ARCHIVES.

BY

SIR C. F. LASCELLES WRAXALL, BART.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:
WM. H. ALLEN & CO., 13, WATERLOO PLACE, S.W.
1864.

[_All Rights reserved._]

LEWIS AND SON, PRINTERS, SWAN BUILDINGS, MOORGATE STREET.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

CHAPTER I.

A GATHERING STORM.

PAGE

The Anonymous letter--Incendiary Placards--The Sailors at
Hirschholm--Alarm at Court--The Feast of the Bœuf Roti--The
Conspiracy--Falckenskjold's Advice--Struensee's Alarms--Brandt's
Levity--The Second Letter--Brandt's Resolution 1

CHAPTER II.

THE SINKING SHIP.

Brandt's Letter of Complaint--Struensee's Dignified Answer--A
False Friend--The Proposed Plot--Freedom of the Press--Insulting
Pamphlets--The Queen Dowager--Rumoured Intrigues--Attempted
Reconciliation--Struensee's Self-Conceit--Fresh Changes at Court 27

CHAPTER III.

THE MUTINY OF THE GUARDS.

Restrictions on the Press--The Pamphleteers--The King at
Home--The Fight with Brandt--The Master of the Wardrobe--Court
Amusements--The Town Commandant--Public Disaffection--The Foot
Guards--The Mutiny--Visit to Frederiksberg--Behaviour of the
Citizens--Struensee Gives Way--Colonel Keith 54

CHAPTER IV.

THE CONSPIRACY.

Struensee's Blindness--Dangerous Rumours--We are Seven--Von
Beringskjold--A Conspirator--The Queen Dowager's Assent--Secret
Meetings--The Masked Ball--A Fatality--Rantzau's Vacillation--The
Visit to the King--The Order to Arrest Caroline Matilda 80

CHAPTER V.

SHARING THE SPOIL.

Arrest of Struensee and Brandt--Falckenskjold's Prison--A
Lady's Perils--Caroline Matilda--A Terrible Scene--Osten's
Persuasion--Arrival at Kronborg--The Queen's Despair--The King in
Public--Popular Excesses--Rewards--General von Huth 106

CHAPTER VI.

THE NEW GOVERNMENT.

The Te Deum--A Warning Voice--Hitting a Fallen Man--A good
Hater--Court Festivities--The Alarm at the Theatre--Banishment of
Beringskjold--Retirement of Reverdil--The Two Counts--Struensee's
Despair--Attempted Suicide--The Commission--The Cabinet Council The
Privy Council of State 128

CHAPTER VII.

WHAT THEY SAID IN ENGLAND.

Colonel Keith--Bad News from Copenhagen--Death of the Princess
of Wales--The Public Press--Junius's Letter--Atticus--A Foul
Libel--The Earl of Bute Denounced--Another Appeal for the
Queen--The State of Public Opinion--The approaching Trial 158

CHAPTER VIII.

STRUENSEE IN PRISON.

Struensee's Confession--A Hopeless Defence--Brandt's Firmness--Dr.
Münter--Materialism--Death of Bernstorff--A Pious Letter--A Roman
Mother--The Convert--D'Alembert--Struensee's Apology--The other
Prisoners 178

CHAPTER IX.

THE QUEEN'S TRIAL.

The Queen's Letters--An Extorted Confession--The High Court
of Inquiry--The Indictment--Statement of Witnesses--Revolting
Details--Amateur Detectives--The Maids in Waiting--Fräulein
von Eyben--Sentiments--Presents--The Verdict
Demanded 203

CHAPTER X.

THE QUEEN'S DEFENCE.

Caroline Matilda's Feelings--Advocate Uldall--The Defence--The
Queen's Innocence--A Fair Trial Demanded--Character of the
Evidence--The Law of Adultery--Value of Evidence--Struensee's
Favour--Fräulein von Eyben--Trifles Light as Air--The Queen's
Attendants--A Flaw in the Argument--Reverdil's Appeal--The
Sentence 231

CHAPTER XI.

A JEALOUS ADVOCATE.

The Indictment of Struensee--Historical Introduction--Coarse
Jests--Brandt's Assault on the King--Treatment of the
Prince Royal--The Minister of State--Abolition of the
Council--Disbandment of the Guards--Alleged Forgery--The
Queen's Bouquet--The Sentence Demanded 255

CHAPTER XII.

A LUKEWARM DEFENCE.

Uldall's Speedy Reply--Breach of the Law--Weak
Arguments--Personalities Appealed Against--Explanations--An Appeal
to Mercy--Falckenskjold's Opinion of the Affair--Reverdil
speaks his Mind--Conduct of the Favourites--The Bribe to
Holck--Count Bernstorff--The Fiscal General's Reply--A Savage
Opponent 297

CHAPTER XIII.

STRUENSEE'S APOLOGY.

The Travelling Doctor--Count Holck--The Foreign Tour--Struensee
at Court--The Queen's Confidence--The Mutual Friend--The
Holstein Progress--Holck Dismissed--The Ministry--The
King's Advisers--Count von Rantzau--The Russian
Alliance--The New Cabinet--Struensee's Advice--The Cabinet
Minister--Education of the Prince Royal 328

LIFE AND TIMES

OF

CAROLINE MATILDA.