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NYGWPB.752.062
30 Oct 1752:11 (509 Supplement)
Extract of a letter from the Hague, dated July 6. The
election of a King of the Romans, says a letter from Vienna,
is forwarded as much as possible; but it is observed that
within a few days some difficulties have arisen upon this
subject, which may possibly retard the execution of it some
weeks. . .
The following is a letter from Vienna, relating to the
above, dated June 30. Last Saturday some discontented people
having gathered themselves together before the hotel of the
Baron de Backhoff, minister from the King of Denmark, threw
stones, and broke the windows of the chapel of his
excellence. . . being jealous that their imperial majesties,
have not only granted the Baron de Backhoff the liberty of
having divine service publickly performed in his chapel
after the manner of the Lutherans, but have likewise
permitted him to have organs. . . The people, who suffer
themselves to be captivated more by exterior pomp and shew
than by the essentials of religion, are apt to think that
every thing is destroy'd if a procession is not accompanied
with noise, with fifes, hautboys, French horns, violins, &c.
And it is by means of these externals that the monks lead
the people by the nose . . .
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