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called up every generous sentiment. Every one that listened felt for him, and each added a mite to alleviate his miseries. Opposite the wood is a Royal seat called Sorgenfrie,’* belonging to Prince Frederick. It is extremely small, but presents itself very prettily from an avenue which leads up to the rising ground on which it stands. In the gardens, which are neatly laid out, a monument is erected to the memory of Princess Sophia Fredericka, wife f of the Prince. She died in the year 1794. The method which this Princess adopted in * Free from sorrow. f The term -wife is here applied, nof according to or­ dinary etiquette. In Denmark, the wide of a great man is usually styled Gcmalinde , from the German Gemablin , (wife); but our Prince Royal (studying to preclude the posssibility of any future historian from expressing him­ self in the manner of Professor Sneedorff, who says, in his history of Denmark,—“ Our court has never been so “ truly Danish as in the reign of King John”) invariably attends to trifles, as scrupulously as to matters of impor­ tance, and, therefore, calls his consort, in plain Danish, Kone, (wife.) F 2