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NHG-P.765.021
3 May 1765:22 (447)
Letters from Dronthein in Norway, by way of Copenhagen,
mention, that from Christmas day till the Epiphany the cold
had been so excessive, that several people had absolutely
died through the severity of the weather.
Last Friday se'night the principal Nobility at Hanover
made a grand cavalcade on sledges. A band of musicians
accompanied them, and the horses as well as the sledges were
superbly decorated. The Princes Charles and Ernest of
Mecklenbourg-Strelitz were of the party.
The same kind of diversion was taken at Vienna the Friday
before. There were thirty-two sledges, which set out from
the place at noon, and traversed the principal streets and
squares of that capital, into which a great quantity of snow
had been brought the night before, there not being before a
sufficient quantity for the course. The train was opened by
the Prince d'Aversperg, Master of the Horse, preceded by a
sledge drawn by six horses, wherein were a kettle-drummer
and eight trumpets. In the first sledge which followed the
Master of the Horse, was the Emperor conducting the Queen of
the Romans with the Archdutchesses, &c. in succession. The
cavalcade, which lasted two hours, was clos'd by a great
number of domestics on horseback, dressed in their habits of
gala. The Empress, Duke Charles and the Princess Charlotte
of Lorrain, saw it from the windows of the palace. In the
evening there was a ball in the grand saloon of the court,
which was finely illuminated.
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