[48] This grand sermon was duly printed, and is lying before me, but I mercifully spare the reader further extracts. I may mention, however, that the text was taken from St. Matthew, chap. viii. 1-13.
[49] This lad was but seventeen years of age, and nothing was known as yet of his capacity.
[50] Among other insults to Struensee, may be mentioned his portrait being placed in the shops, with the following couplet, containing a reference to his name, beneath it:—
"Sic regi mala multa Struens se perdidit ipse,
Jam victus claustris, qui modo victor erat."
Which, for the benefit of the ladies, may be translated: "Thus the man who prepared much evil for the king destroyed himself; and he now lies in prison, who was shortly ago lord of all."
[51] The titles were L'Ambilieux and L'Indiscret, either by accident or through a vile eagerness on the part of the comedians.
[52] "Authentische Aufklärungen," p. 271.
[53] Reverdil, p. 363. Sturtz wrote to him afterwards that this affair had seriously injured his health; and, in fact, he died at the early age of forty years.
[54] "Gespräch im Reiche der Todten," a very virulent Danish pamphlet, with the motto,