M.

McBride, captain, arrives at Copenhagen, 150; introduced to Caroline Matilda, 151.

Magistracy, abolition of the, 41.

Mantel, the queen's valet, 221.

Mathias, British minister at Hamburg, 184, 186.

Mattheson, Mr. Wraxall's letters to be addressed to, 199.

Matthiesen, Jerome, Mr. Wraxall and several Danish nobility sup with, 178.

Moranti, the negro boy, his evidence, 5.

Mösting, von, minister of finances, 287.

Munkholm, fortress of, 124; Colonel Falckenskjold sentenced to imprisonment for life there, _ib._; history of his abode there, 125 _et seq._; voyage to, 125, 126; description of the fort, 126; a monastery of Benedictines founded here by Canute the Great, _ib. note_; demoralised state of the soldiery, 128; Lieutenant-General von der Osten the commandant, _ib._; officers of, 129; the garrison chaplain, 132; a fresh commandant of the fortress, Major Colin, 135; imprisonment of Beringskjold, the political foe of Falckenskjold, 278.

Münter, Dr., peruses the sentence against Struensee with trembling, 73; his communications with Struensee, 73 _et seq._; his opinions on Struensee's conduct, 79; his kindness to Struensee, 83; attends him to the scaffold, 90-3; rewards allotted to, 95 _et note_.

N.

Norwegian coast, the, 131.

O.

Ortwed, Etats-rath, the king's bailiff, 88.

Osnabrück, strange adventure at, 199.

Osten, lieutenant-general von der, commandant of Munkholm, 128; his brutal character, 129; brings a pardon to Colonel Falckenskjold, 138.

Osten, count von der, one of the triumvirate in the government of Denmark, 262; banished to Jütland, 278; his subsequent appointment, 279; his death, _ib._

P.

Prince Royal, Struensee's letter to his governess, 78.

Q.

Queen Dowager (_see_ JULIANA MARIA.)

R.

Rantzau, count von, his blackness of soul, 76; Struensee's letter to, 81, 82; no hostile feelings entertained against, 81; one of the triumvirate in the government of Denmark, 263; suddenly removed from his office, _ib._; ordered to quit the country, 264; settles at Avignon, _ib._; his death, _ib._

Reforms, by Struensee, 39 _et seq._

Reverdil's animadversions on Count Brandt's trial and sentence, 69; exposes the Grub Street libellers, 165.

Roques, M., pastor of the French Protestant Church at Celle, 254; his testimony to the queen's innocence and purity of mind, _ib._

Rosencrone, count, opposed by the crown prince, 284, 285.

Rosenkranz, von, privy councillor, 285.

Rothes, Christian Adolphus, an anonymous libeller, 165.

Royal prerogative, 53.

S.

St. Germain, count de, sentiment of, 135.

"Sandkrug," the suburban inn of Celle, 189.

Scarlet fever, prevalence of, in the neighbourhood of Celle, 243; the queen's illness and death caused by, 244 _et seq._

Schack, supreme marshal von, dismissed, and expelled from the court by the crown prince, 286.

Scheel, the valet, his evidence, 5.

Schimmelmann, baron von, and his lady, 176; their son introduced to Mr. Wraxall, 180; his revolutionary project, 181.

Schmidt, J. C. E., one of the commissioners who sentenced Struensee, 61, and Count Brandt, 67.

Seckendorf, baron, chamberlain to the queen Matilda, 173; Mr. Wraxall's interview with, 186; acts as the confidential agent between the queen and Mr. Wraxall, 188, 198; his warm reception of Mr. Wraxall, 221; his note, 231; Wraxall's interview with, 233; delivers important letters to him, _ib._; his letter respecting the queen's sudden death, 238.

Seeland dragoons, reform in the regiment of, 54 _note_; ordered to the court and city, 59.

Serfdom, restoration of, in Denmark, 261; its subsequent abolition, _ib._

Sevel, professor F. C., one of the commissioners who sentenced Struensee and Count Brandt, 61, 67; acted as inquisitor, 116; his insulting treatment of Colonel Falckenskjold, 116, 125.

Small-pox, ravages of the, 77.

Sporon, tutor of the crown prince, 282, 283.

Stade, the queen's arrival at, 157.

Stampe, H., one of the commissioners who sentenced Struensee, 61, and Count Brandt, 67.

Stampe, baron de, an odd adventure with, 200.

Stampe, privy councillor, 285.

Stemann, von, minister of finance, 283; his overthrow, 285.

Struensee, count Fred., his robbery of the royal treasury, 11; assisted by Count Brandt in all his crimes, 12; sentence on, 33; the charges against him recapitulated, 34 _et seq._; his general conduct and designs, 34; abolishes the council, 36; his impediments of the colleges, 37; his ignorance of the Danish language, 38; his important reforms 39; his despotism, 40; his dismissal of the ministry, 41; his establishment of the Council of Thirty-two, _ib._; his avarice and selfishness, 46; his salaries, _ib. note_; excludes all from the throne, excepting his intimate friends and relations, 43; his selfishness, 44; the large presents received from his Majesty, 45; his embezzlements, 47, 48; his ambition not less than his avidity, 49; his "moderation," _ib._; his assumed authority, 50; his cabinet orders, 51; his disregard of the _Lex Regia_, 52; contravenes the royal prerogative, 53; his disbandment of the guards, 54, 55; his cabinet extracts, 56; his despotic administration, 60; committed the crime of high treason in an eminent degree, 61; his sentence, degradation from the dignity of count and all other honours, his body to be quartered, &c., _ib._; royal assent given to the sentence, 62; his sentence announced to him by Commissioner Uldall, 71; his fortitude, 72; his deep concern for Count Brandt, _ib._; his doubts and ruminations, 73; his letter to his parents, 74; his conversations with Münter, 77, 78, 79; his letter to Frau von Berkentin, chief gouvernante to the prince royal, 78; his letter to Chamberlain Christian Brandt, 80; his letter to Count Rantzau, 81; his farewell to his brother Justiz-rath Struensee, 83; his procession to the place of execution, 86, 87; his hopes of salvation, 90; his behaviour, 91; his execution and horrible death, 93; his head exposed on a pole, 94; his skull eventually stolen by four English sailors, 94 _note_; his character, 96 _et seq._; in prosperity not a hero, in misfortune cowardly and worthless, 96; of the romantic episodes of his life, 96; his acquirements, 97; his enlightened despotism, 98; remarks on his administration, 99; his mistaken policy, 100; after his fall behaved like a coward and a traitor, 100; Baron Seckendorf's account of his administration and the plots against his life, 199 _note_.

Struensee, Justiz-rath, his intercommunication with his brother, 83; charges brought against him, 120; his high character, 121; his honorable conduct while in Prussia, 122; honored with the distinguished favor of Prince Henry of Prussia, _ib._; released from prison, 124; becomes minister of state in Prussia and ennobled in 1789, 124.

Sturtz, councillor, groundless charges brought against, 107; biographical notices of, _ib._; how disposed of, 110, 112; dies of grief, 112.

Suffolk, lord, his letter to Sir R. M. Keith respecting queen Matilda, 147; Keith's letter to, 161; Wraxall's fruitless visit to, 202, 203.

Suhm, the historian, 95; his anecdote of the dowager queen's avenging spirit, 96.

T.

Texier, M. le, treasurer to Christian VII., 176; proposes to Mr. Wraxall a project for restoring the Queen of Denmark, 179, 180; letters to be addressed to, 199.

Thirty-two, council of the, 41.

Torp, the valet, his evidence, 5.

Traventhal league, 113.

"Trésor," the, reserved by Struensee as a special cabinet treasury, 46, 47.

Trondhjem, garrison of, 127, 128; (_see_ MUNKHOLM).

U.

Uldall, commissioner, announces to Struensee the sentence passed upon him, 71.