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    * p chastise you for such an omission : not that it would have me have good , frut because it delights in mischief . I ' ve often wondered in what language Adam address'd himself to Eye , whether we have any name for it now I It might be as you seem to intimate , and Fm inclined to believe it was , by immediate

    inspiration . It was a sweet language , I floubt not . O I that Adam tad not teen so bad ; then 1 had been better , and should have understood these people , and appeared in my primitive garments , as the first pair did ; I think I am more angry with them than I used to be , since in Stockholm , I've suffered so much on their account .

    We have had a jubilee fyere lately , it being 200 years since the reformation : it was on the Sunday , all the steeples of the churches having concerts of musick that made a strange discord all over tjie city ; for they could not keep time together , to be sure . They dance much *> n Sundays here , and all their diversions are on that day ; after 3 of the clock , trade and all businesses are as on another , for

    they say then the sabbath is done . They begin at six on Saturday even , and are so strict in divine service , that the soldiers take up sdl walking in the street , except they ' re going for prayers , &c ; to my understanding , this is tything jmnt and cummin . I * ye been at , nor

    seen , none of their diversipns , nor don t intend it , though I ' m laughed at much for refusing and laying I never will : they ask me if I think myself better than others that do it : 1 tel } them I wou'd be better , but question whether I am or not ; however , be that as it will , f can t

    conform to those customs , fyecance I dis * approve of them : they tell me I am in a foreign country now , and ought to do as others ; 1 tell them I Came here to approve myself more both to God and tnan ; and myself if possible ; that 1 am persuaded all would disapprove of me

    lor so doing , at least 1 could not acquit myself to' myself in complying with those methods " , so begged they would excuse me ati 4 never ask me ; for one efusal was the same' as ten thousand . I iope I ' v £ cured them from asking me . think I ' ve heard Mr . C . ' s family is < ufferent , at least I hope so . . * ;

    f he lady 1 am with is just got up from a lying-in , and has been near death . The first fright was terrible to *» € » having 4 never been near any' one in the like case ; and I was much concerned

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    for fear of losing my Englishwoman , We had a very grand christening , by' % Lutheran priest , trebly dignified by three caps , the upper one of velvet- He salutes all with as many bows as caps , pulling one off at each bpw . The ceremony was performed in French ; * tfe different , 1 understand , both from our

    established church , and the dissenters : nobody kneels or says any thing , but the piiest reads a great deal , and prays himself , then crosses the child ' s face -with the side of his hand , and dips the hind part of the head in water , the cap being taken off ; ( they have godfathers and godmothers , sometimes 6 or 7 , or more ; this had but 3 : ) then they eat swee t * meats and drink Rhenish wine , the gentlemen in one room , and the ladies in

    another ; pyramids of sweetmeats are on all the tables , and a cloth spread , in the 3 rooms , you pas * through . The christening is on the 3 d day . The Swedes keep their beds % months for a girl , and 6 weeks for a boy ; but this lady being English , she went out at 5 weeks , tho' it was a girl she lay in with .

    The king is counted a very good-natured , affable prince , and particularly fond of the Englisji . If he sees an Englishman that he has not been used tP see , ( for he knows what country any is of at first sight , ) he sends to know who and what he is , and desires to- speak with

    hini . The English women he admires rather more , and always talks ~ with them when he can conveniently ; I have not yet had the honour to see him . He is but a king jm name , for power he has none , not so much as to put away one menial servant , without the senators '

    conserjt ; forking Charles the iith was so arbitrary in this government , that he seized on most of their estates for his own use , and Charles the izth wa $ ajways in broils and wars , that reduced his people to sucK degree , th ; t they are resolved the kings shall have no more power , their predecessors having made so ill a use of it , The latter halted

    women so much , that when his sister , this present queen , came to see him , \ xc would not let' her come any further than the door , and charged . her nqt to couch him , for she was a wpraan , and that was

    reason enough , for it spoiled a solder to converse with a yvofyaja . She came from Germany to majk $ this . YJ&& . fre ^ e , where she was sj * wej ) received . % Dutch , FrsjK jb ^ Italian , andJLatigt are spoken here m great perfection , # yery

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    The Say Papers . —Original Letter of Mrs * M . Sheppar&s . 483

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    vol . iv . ' • 3 s

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1809, page 483, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1740/page/9/