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BNL.768.067
2 Dec 1768:23 (3400 Supplement 332)
London, September 24. . . We hear that the King of Denmark
proposes giving two entertainments at his sole expense
before he leaves this Kingdom; the one to the public. a
grand masquerade ball, on Monday the 10th of October, at the
Opera House; and the other to the Nobility, a sumptuous ball
and cold collation, on Thursday the 13th of the same month,
at Mrs. Cornelys's in Soho-square.
We hear the expense of the mask ball and supper which his
Danish Majesty is to give at the Opera House, will amount to
three thousand guineas.
We also hear Mr. Khugg, confectioner, in the Haymarket,
is to have the entertainment.
We have it from very good authority, that the behaviour
of the people of England to the King of Denmark, in crouding
so rudely round him on the first night when he want to
Ranelagh, at St. James's, and other places, gave him then
but a very unfavourable idea of the manners and carriage of
the English in general, but that the great respect shewn to
his Majesty by the higher ranks of the people since, and a
farther knowledge into the genius of the lower . . . [has
changed his opinion.]
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