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When the Princess was sufficiently recovered to go abroad, she visited the theatre. The Streets, through which the Royal family had to pass, were brilliantly embellished with devices, and otherwise disposed to give eclat to the oc­ casion. On the Royal personages entering their box, they were, quite contrary to custom, greeted with the enthusiastic acclamations of the audience; and at their departure from the theatre, the populace, amid thundering huzzas, surrounded the Royal party, with such eagerness and impetuosity, that the guards were compelled to recede, and suffer them to follow the carriage. This circumstance recalls to my mind the reply of Frederick the Fourth, to the French Ambassador, when the latter, with surprise, remarked, that his Majesty lived at his country seat without any guards. “ I am safe in the arms of my people,” answered the King. But the sense of the people cannot be con­ veyed in stronger language, than by relating the following anecdote: “ A gardener, in

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