Volume 6

Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa / By Edward Daniel Clarke.

  • Clarke, Edward Daniel, 1769-1822.
Date:
1810-1823
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa / By Edward Daniel Clarke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    estates, and possess all the privileges belonging to them ; but chap. i. a person not nobly born cannot purchase them. A commis¬ sion from the King confers the same privilege as noble birth. An Ensign might purchase a nobleman’s estate, and possess all the rights and honours attached to it. All civil offices, as in Russia, have a certain military rank. The title of Count gives a certain rank in the army ; but a simple Ensign takes the precedence of a nobleman born, with the largest possessions, if he have no title, and hold no civil office from the crown. In a scale of the different gradations of rank shewn to us, we observed that it consisted of six or seven different classes. The rank of Chamberlain was in the same class with that of the Major Generals of the army, but it was at the head of this class. In the class above this, were the Generals, Admirals, and Counts possessing estates annexed to their titles ; those without, being in the class below. During this conversation with Mr. Anker, the character Character of Prince Fre- of the Prince1 was started. Mr. Anker observed, that his *rfc. character was not well known, and seldom justly appreciated. He believed him to be the most moral man that could well exist, and of the most strict and impartial justice. He was not indeed generous; but this could hardly be attributed to him as a fault, arising, as it did, from the very small sum which he required for his own expenses; not more than 12,ooo dollars; (1) Now Frederic VI. King of Denmark, born January 27, 1/68; married in 1790 to Princess Sophia Frederica of Hesse Cassel; by whom he hath issue two daughters.