INCLUDING THE EXTRAORDINARY VICISSITUDES IN THE LIVES OF IN TWO VOLUMES. BY MR. JOHN BROWN, of Great Yarmouth AUTHOR OF THE MYSTERIES OF NEUTRALIZATION; THE NAVAL ADVOCATE; GUSTAVUS THE THIRD. CHAP. I. A journey to Petersburg-Royal reconciliation.Birth of an heir.-Melancholy catastrophe.-Popular discontent.-Degradation of the senate.Northern confederacy.-Alliance with Denmark and Russia.-Gustavus travels to Spa-Family discord, and family secrets.-Louisa Ulrica.-Her death, and character.-Catherine the Second.Gustavus the Third.-Mutual hatred, and reciprocal duplicity. Gustavus travels through Italy.-Some interesting particulars of his tour.-His magnificent collection of statues and paintings.--Returns by way of Paris. Arrival of Gustavus at Stockholm. GUSTAVUS, in 1777, went on a visit to the court of Catherine. His reception was brilliant in the extreme. The maritime pretensions of Great Britain, and the final partition of Poland, are said to have formed a part of the political subjects discussed between the empress and king. The court of St. James's having offended this haughty prince, by not investing him with the Order of the Garter, to avenge the slight, he |