[18] Reverdil is the only writer who produces this curious document.
[19] Gespräch im Reiche der Todten.
[20] Gespräch im Reiche der Todten.
[21] Struensee's skull was eventually stolen by four English sailors, belonging to a Russian man-of-war commanded by Admiral Greig.
[22] It has been said that Juliana Maria expressed a regret at not seeing the decapitated corpse of Caroline Matilda by the side of that of her accomplices. But such language would be quite contrary to the reserve, prudence, and dissimulation of which she furnished so many proofs during the whole of her life.
[23] The Commission of Inquiry has received orders to consider in what manner the persons employed in convicting the prisoners of state should be rewarded; in consequence of which it was allotted that Dr. Hee and Dr. Münter should each receive 300 rix dollars; but the court was of a different opinion, and judged it most proper to make presents to these ecclesiastics. The two civil officers who drew up the protocol each received 150 Danish ducats.—Annual Register for 1772.
[24] This letter I have found in Raumer's "Beiträge zur neueren Geschichte," vol. i.
[25] "Authentische Aufklärungen," p. 246.
[26] "Mémoires de Falckenskjold," p. 252.
[27] The judges could not have brought forward a greater proof of their ill-will than this. For even the usurping faction did not dare upset this regulation, which was so useful for the cultivation of desolate districts in Norway.