Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Vol. 3 (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. 3 (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
Arnim, Herr von, minister of the King of Prussia, intercedes on
behalf of Justiz-rath Struensee, 120.
APPENDIX, containing extracts from the correspondence of Mr. Wraxall
with his father, relative to the restoration of Caroline Matilda,
291 _et seq._
B.
Bang, counsellor, defends Count Brandt, 14.
Berger, professor, employed in incommoding his Majesty, 2;
groundless charges brought against, 109;
how disposed of, 111, 112.
Beringskjold, his political career, 271, 272;
his conspiracy, and arrest, 273;
his trial and imprisonment, 277, 278;
his death, 278.
Beringskjold, Frau von, her death, 277.
Berkentin, Frau von, chief gouvernante to the prince royal, and the
early patroness of Struensee, 78.
Bernstorff, Peter Andreas, foreign affairs entrusted to, 279;
privy councillor, 285, 288.
Bodenhausen, von, the Hanoverian privy councillor, receives Queen
Matilda at Stade, 157.
Braëm, G. A., one of the commissioners who sentenced Struensee, 61;
and Count Brandt, 67.
Bramstedt, bailiwick of, solicited by Count Brandt, 31;
described, 32, _note_.
Brandt, count Enevold, indictment of, 1;
retrospect of his career and conduct, 3 _et seq._;
his position at court, 3;
the different charges against, 4, 8, 11;
his assault on the king, 5;
his presuming manners, 7;
broke the fidelity due to his sovereign by being an accomplice
with Struensee and the queen, 8;
his neglect of duty, 9, 10;
his joining Struensee in robbing the royal treasury, 11;
injustice of the charges against, 14;
defended by Counsellor Bang, _ib._;
the different charges rebutted, 16 _et seq._;
his character not affected by Struensee's forgery, 26;
his Quixotism, 27;
his letter to the judges, and petition to the king, 28;
pleads his youth and eccentricity, 30;
makes a modest request, 31;
his punishment predetermined, 32;
sentence on, promulgated, _ib._;
the intimate friend of Struensee, 43;
a close attendant on the king, _ib._;
delivery of the sentence upon him, 62;
the charges against him recapitulated, 63 _et seq._;
his behaviour to the king, 63;
assists Struensee in producing a misunderstanding, 64;
obtains large sums from the royal treasury, _ib._;
his assault and battery on the king, 65, 66;
high treason thus committed, 67;
his sentence, degradation from the dignity of count, and all
other honours, his body to be quartered and exposed on the
wheel, &c., 67;
royal confirmation of the sentence, 67, 68;
injustice of the sentence, and groundlessness of the charges, 68, 69;
Reverdil's animadversions on the sentence, 69;
his sentence announced to him by his defender Bang, 74;
intercession of Owe Guldberg on his behalf, and the unfeeling
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