From Hanau the king went through Frankfort to Mainz, sailed on the following day in a yacht down the Rhine to Coblenz, visited Ehrenbreitstein and Rheinfels, and travelled on land from Bonn to Cologne and Wesel. After staying two days in the latter town, he accepted an invitation from the Hereditary Stadtholder, the Prince of Orange, to St. Loo, and thence went straight to Amsterdam, where he rejoined his suite. The king remained six days in Amsterdam, thirteen at the Hague, and ten at Brussels, being everywhere received by an enormous crowd, and honoured by grand banquets, for which he evinced his gratitude by costly presents. From Brussels the journey was continued _viâ_ Ghent, Bruges, and Ostend, to Dunkirk, from which town the Princes of Croy and Robecq accompanied the king to Calais. Here Captain Campbell was awaiting the brother-in-law of George III. with the _Mary_ yacht, and he landed safely at Dover late on the evening of August 10. His Danish Majesty, we read, was saluted by the cannon of the castle, forts, and vessels of the harbour, and was received with every possible mark of distinction and respect. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 51: "Authentische Aufklärungen," p. 15.] [Footnote 52: "Reverdil's Memoirs."] [Footnote 53: "Reverdil's Memoirs."] [Footnote 54: "Authentische Aufklärungen," p. 18.] [Footnote 55: Reverdil.] [Footnote 56: At the Danish court, chamberlains have the relative rank of major-generals; pages of the chamber that of lieutenant-colonels; and court hunting and riding pages that of captains.] [Footnote 57: Evidently an allusion to the loss of Milady.] [Footnote 58: Of this lady, the author of "Mémoires de mon Temps" says: "C'était une femme admirable et d'un grand esprit; beaucoup de lecture et beaucoup de monde."] [Footnote 59: "Mémoires de Falckenskjold," to which the reader who desires to know further details is respectfully referred.] [Footnote 60: In the "Mémoires de mon Temps" we read: "Il (le roi) manquait entièrement de l'application, mais avait beaucoup d'esprit, qui était très vif même, avait la repartie extrêmement prompte, très gaie, fort bonne mémoire, en un mot, un jeune homme charmant, qu'ou ne put qu'aimer.... Il avait une passion démesurée de connaitre des femmes," &c.] [Footnote 61: "Mémoires de mon Temps," p. 49.] CHAPTER VI. CHRISTIAN IN ENGLAND. GEORGE III.--THE JOURNEY TO TOWN--THE STABLE YARD--HORACE WALPOLE--THE FIRST MEETING OF THE KINGS--THE PRINCESS OF WALES--FESTIVITIES--CHRISTIAN MADE A D.C.L.--THE CITY BANQUET--THE BILL OF FARE--THE BALL IN THE HAYMARKET--CHRISTIAN TAKES LEAVE--ANECDOTES. The visit of Christian VII. to England was not particularly agreeable to George III. The English monarch, who had no taste for show and amusement, tried to get off under pretext of the national confusions; but Christian, who, as Walpole says, had both the obstinacy and caprices of youth, had persisted, and came to England as a very unwelcome guest.