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BNL.762.020
17 Jun 1762:21 (3025)
London. April 15. We are inform'd that with the intended
new dress for the court, all English laces are to be worn,
which will totally suppress that very extensive branch of
smuggling, (the French blonds) and be happy encouragement to
a very important manufactory which would employ thousands of
our women, and afford a comfortable support to many indigent
families besides cutting the sinews of an implacable enemy.
The entertainment given on Monday by the Lord Mayor at the
mansion-house, was in every respect, sumptuous, elegant and
magnificent. The ball at night was opened by the Lady
Mayoress and the Earl of Errol; and the room where they
danced being lightened up after a new manner, the appearance
of the ladies there, was uncommonly brilliant. the minuet
given out was a la Martinique; and in the desert, which was
most curiously ornamented with palm trees and festoons of
flowers, upwards of three feet high, was a representation of
the Island of Martinico with the British fleet riding in
triumph round it; and at one end a large man of war,
compleately rigged and arm'd, all in pastry, with a hat de
latouche of the same materials, pulled off in reverence to
the British flag. The first course at dinner consisted of
600 cover'd dishes from the kitchen alone, exclusive of the
pasties and other eatables; and the whole number of dishes
sent up is said to have amounted to upwards of 1000.
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