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the education of her children, made her the idol of the people, as her son would be heir apparent in the event (which heaven avert) the Prince Royal were to die without male issue. The name of this seat caused a German traveller to say to his friend ,—u You see we e< must go to Denmark to learn how to trans- “ late S ans S ouci ,” alluding to the palace of Potsdam, which bears that foreign inscription. This compliment, and the facetious manner in which it is paid would seem to entitle its author to our thanks, as it conveys a tacit con­ fession of the propriety of cultivating the use of our own language. Unfortunately, how­ ever, it happens to expose more glaringly his inconsistency; as but a few pages before he ridicules the Danes for affecting to prefer their native language to every other; and, with a disdainful air observes, our publishing edicts, and engraving public inscriptions, in our own tongue. He also, with the true phlegm of a German, tells his friend of a long story, written in Danish, on the monument erected to com­ memorate the emancipation of the peasants, but with the particulars declines to fatigue him.