[Footnote 65: Reverdil makes a remark on this, which would have weight if we could believe a word that Brandt said. He observes:--"I learnt from Brandt such peculiar details, which at the same time agreed with all the rest, that I could neither doubt their truth nor their origin. Brandt was so petulant in his curiosity about matters of gallantry, that it was necessary either to deny as impudently as he questioned, or to confess everything. And as he spared nobody, and took a pride in dispensing with those reservations most commanded by decency, I do not doubt that by showing himself thoroughly acquainted with the affair, he forced the queen to speak to him as clearly as his friend did. In his examination he confessed to having been a confidant."] 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--FRAULEIN VON EYBEN--SENTIMENTS--PRESENTS--THE VERDICT DEMANDED. When the new power was established in Copenhagen, a species of suite was appointed to wait on the unhappy Caroline Matilda, less in the quality of attendants than of spies and gaolers. The persons selected were Fräuleins von Sperling and Von Schmettau, Count Holstein zu Ledreborg, and Gentleman of the Bedchamber Von Raben, all persons who were disagreeable to her. Juliana Maria, who was nothing if not bigoted, at once set to work to provide spiritual assistance for her prisoner, and one Chemnitz, garrison preacher at Elsinore, with incredible ferocity insulted, in the name of Heaven, a princess who was already so unhappy. He chose as his text the following verses from Isaiah, chapter xiv.:-- "And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. "And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve. "That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressors ceased! the golden city ceased!" Another preacher, Hansen, who was appointed to the same duty on alternate days with Chemnitz, derived, from chapter lxiii. of the same prophet, the subject of an even more cruel insult:-- "Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat? "I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. "For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come."