adding, that this tranfadlion had efcaped the notice o f many cpj*p-
of the Englifh hiftorians, and that even Hume, who in gene-'— ,— >
ral pays greater attention to foreign affairs, had touched on
it only in a very curfory manner : he concluded by obferv-
ing, that Celfius, in his excellent Life o f Eric XIV. <f had
given a‘ very curious and circumftantial account o f John’s
embaffy, and o f the whole correfpondence between Eric and
Elizabeth.
As our ftay at Stockholm was very ihort, I had no further
opportunity o f enjoying thofe agreeable and inftrudlive con-
verfations with which I might have been indulged by his
majefty’s uncommon condefcenfion. Guftavus III. was
born on the 24th o f January, 1 7 4 6 ; in 1 7 7 1 afcended
the throne upon the demife o f his father Adolphus Frederick';
and in the courfe o f the following-year effected
the revolution which confiderably extended the regal authority.
By his queen, Sophia Magdalena, daughter o f
Frederick' V. late king o f Denmark, he has iflue Guftavus
Adolphus, prince royal o f Sweden, and Charles Guftavus,
fince deceafed. The other members o f the royal family are
his majefty’s brothers, prince Charles duke o f Sudermanland,
who efpoufed Hedwige princefs o f Lubeck, and prince Frederick
Adolphus duke o f Eaft-Gothland; and a lifter the
princefs Sophia' Albertina.
The queen dowager, to whom we had the honour o f being
prefented at her palace o f Frederickihof, and who is fince
dead, was Louifa Ulrica lifter to the king of Pruffia, a princefs
who refembled her brother, as well in the features o f
her countenance as in thofe eminent abilities which charac-
* T h e original o f th is e x ce llen t wo rk is p a rt icu la r ly th e p a rt to w h ich th e k in g a l-
written in Swedifti j there is a F ren ch tran- lud ed'.' ' See H iild ire d ’E r ic X I V . p a r O lo f :
Nation 'wh ich I read w ith g re a t pleafu re , C e lf iu s .