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.