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CC-H.768.044
19 Dec 1768:33 (209)
London. Yesterday at noon his Danish Majesty came from his
apartments at St. James's, attended by his nobles, through
St. James's Park to Westminster Bridge, where he embarked on
the upper side, with his retinue, being met by Sir Robert
Labroke Knt. Locum Tenens, with the city officers regalia,
&c. at whose meeting his Majesty expressed the greatest
satisfaction, the King, his nobles, the Locum Tenens, and
all the company being seated in the city barge, the music
playing, drums beating, cannon firing. . . [34 lines
describing his Majesty's trip to the Temple and subsequently
to the Mansion House before returning to St. James.] The
disposition of the lights (at least near 200) the
arrangements of the tables, the erection of the temporary
orchestra, and the whole of the ornamenting of the AEgyptian
Hall, were executed with the utmost propriety and elegance,
under the direction of Mr. George Dance, Clerk to the city
works.
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