Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Vol. 2 (of 3): Queen of Denmark and Norway, and Sister of H. M. George III. of EnglandWraxall, Lascelles, Sir
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Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Vol. 2 (of 3): Queen of Denmark and Norway, and Sister of H. M. George III. of England
Wraxall, Lascelles, Sir
Caroline Mathilde, Queen, consort of Christian VII, King of Denmark, 1751-1775; Denmark -- History -- Christian VII, 1766-1808
DENMARK, alarming preparations against insurrection, 67;
public dissatisfaction, 68;
meeting of the royal guards, 73;
behaviour of the citizens, 75;
a formidable conspiracy against Struensee and his government, which
terminates with the arrest and imprisonment of the queen, 84,
107, 120;
tumultuous proceedings, 121, 122;
the new administration, 129;
public thanks offered in all the churches, 130;
police regulations for preventing mobs and street riots, 140;
violent persecutions and punishments, 148;
the _Lex Regia_, 155, 156;
state trials of the queen, Struensee, and others, 178 _et seq._;
sentence passed upon the queen, 254;
state of the kingdom, 257;
and of parties, 341, 342;
general dissatisfaction in, 344.
Dieden, baron, the Danish envoy at St. James's, 168.
Dockyard men, of Copenhagen, their complaints, 11, 12.
Doctrinaire school, Struensee's state paper on the, 34-47.
Düval, captain C., 141.
E.
Eickstedt, colonel von., joins in a conspiracy against Struensee,
84-102;
his position and character, 89;
appointed commandant of the city, 104;
arrests his brother officers, colonels Falckenskjold and
Hesselberg, 110;
arrests Justiz-rath Struensee and Professor Berger, 112;
his promotions, 125.
England, sensation caused in, by the arrest of Queen Caroline
Matilda, 158 _et seq._
Eyben, Fräulein von, the queen's lady in waiting, 220, 221, 243.
F.
Falckenskjold, colonel von, his advice
to Struensee, 13, 14, 51, 52;
his conversation with Brandt, 17;
arrested, 110;
transferred to the navy prison, 111;
his treatment in prison, and his examination before the privy
council, 201;
his opinion of Struensee's trial, 318.
Falckenskjold, Captain von, his rewards, 125.
Fanatical preachers, 204.
Finances, Struensee's alleged malversation of the, 289, 308;
his brother appointed deputy of the, 290;
the forgery, 291, 308, 309, 319;
general rules for conducting the, 348.
Flying corps, disbandment of the, 55.
Foot guards, disbandment of the, 69;
mutiny of the, 71.
Foreign affairs, Struensee's view of, 365.
Foreign department, rules for conducting the, 347.
Forgery, attributed to Struensee, 291, 308, 309;
Reverdil's evidence on, 319;
Struensee's explanation, 364.
Frederick, prince, joins in a conspiracy against Struensee, 84-102;
incident connected with, 95.
Frederick III., of Denmark, 325.
Frederiksberg, residence of the Danish court, 66;
march of the mutinous guards to, 73.
G.
Gabel, Esther, her father's house destroyed by the populace, 121, 122.
Gabel, Frau von, her influential position at court, 334, 335.
Gähler, Frau von, arrested, 143.
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