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BPB.768.041
5 Dec 1768:11 (333)
London. Sept. 26. . . A lady present at the grand ball on
Monday night last, was dressed in a silk, the manufacture of
Spitalfields, which cost 35 guineas per yard. . .
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 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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