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PJ.751.040
6 Jun 1751:21 (446)
M. Gross being on the point of setting out for Potzdam,
along with the minister of the emperor of the Romans, and
the Lord Hyndford, in order to see the Castle of San-Soucy
lately built that journey was interdicted to him alone, by a
letter from Count Podewils, and in a manner as unexpected as
it is unpractised between friendly courts. The same conduct
was observed towards her imperial majesty's said minister,
who was treated with the most stinging contempt, on occasion
of an entertainment given at Charlottenburg. With a
premediated design, in inviting all the other ministers to
supper, after the play was over, he was let to traverse all
the garden of the castle, in company with the Marquis de la
Puebla, the emperor's minister, as if it were to nettle him
the more by the return of the latter; besides that, the
harbinger of the court, charged to invite all the foreign
ministers to the ball and to the supper, did invite M. Gross
to the ball only, probably with a view to notify this
minister, and let him see in what contempt he was held at
the Prussian court.
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