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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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The King of Denmark visited Chatsworth on Saturday last, expressed satisfaction, proceeded to Derby via Matlock amid crowds. Yesterday, dined at St. James's with nobility and ministers, supped with Prussian Ambassador followed by ball. His table costs 84l daily excl. wine.
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On Saturday last, about three o'clock, his Danish Majesty arrived at Chatsworth, the seat of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, where he was received by Lord Frederick and Lord George Cavendish. His Majesty expressed the greatest satisfaction at the water works, &c. and after dinner proceeded, by the way of Matlock, to Derby, where he lay on Saturday night. A prodigious number of people assembled at Matlock Bath to see the King pass, and it being dark his Majesty did not get out of his carriage, but had the condescension to suffer candles to be held up at each of the coach doors, that the company might pass in a line and have a full view of him.
Yesterday his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, his Grace the Duke of Ancaster, several of the Nobility, and Foreign Ministers, dined with his Danish Majesty at St. James's; and in the evening the King of Denmark supped with the Prussian Ambassador at his house in Clifford street, Burlington Gardens; after Supper there was a ball.
The King of Denmark's table at St. James's is at the expence of the King of Great Britain. Besides inferior ones, there are two principal tables; that of his Danish Majesty is noble; the dessert is elegant and superb; and the whole daily cost is estimated, we hear, at 84l. exclusive of wine, comprehending not the dinner alone, but every meal.
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England
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Saturday Last And Yesterday (Reported September 10)
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his majesty expressed the greatest satisfaction; daily cost of the king's table estimated at 84l. exclusive of wine
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On Saturday last, about three o'clock, the King of Denmark arrived at Chatsworth, seat of the Duke of Devonshire, received by Lord Frederick and Lord George Cavendish. He expressed great satisfaction at the water works and after dinner proceeded via Matlock to Derby, where he stayed the night. A prodigous number of people assembled at Matlock Bath to see him; in the dark, candles were held at coach doors for the crowd to view him. Yesterday, the Duke of Gloucester, Duke of Ancaster, several Nobility, and Foreign Ministers dined with him at St. James's. In the evening, he supped with the Prussian Ambassador at his house in Clifford Street, Burlington Gardens, followed by a ball. The King's table at St. James's is at the expense of the King of Great Britain, with two principal tables; his is noble, dessert elegant and superb; whole daily cost estimated at 84l. exclusive of wine, covering every meal.