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I>. Rtl . })2 NOTRS. Note e, p. 28. " Ossa Tassoni. '' The simple inscription still seen in the church of St. Onorifica, where, under a flat stone, lie the remains of the immortal poet. Note/, p. 29. " Ah ! to the imperial dome of Sweden turu. " On the 16th of March, 1792, Guistavus III. King of Sweden, was assassinated at Stockholm, by Captain Ankerstroun, at a masquerade. All the science of the surgeons had been exerted in vain to extract the iron nails that were known to have entered the bod...y, while the agony their efforts occasioned was as dreadful as any studied tortures. On the morning of the 28th, mortification presented itself in its most alarming form. The Chamberlain Bengetstgerna communicated to the royal sufferer the hopelessness of his cure. For the first time the King was seen to weep bitterly. He reproached himself for his ill spent life. He feelingly lamented the errors that had marked his reign. His wandering mind recurred to the events of his early life, ere vice had made a lodgment in his bosom ; and it brought his illustrious mother so forcibly to his recollection, that he addressed her as if she had been living : ".
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