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NM.762.005
13 Nov 1762:11 (219)
London, August 16. The cause of the Cherokee chiefs coming
to England having been variously, but not truly represented,
it may not be amiss to inform the public, through the
channel of your paper, of their real motives for visiting
our court and Kingdom. . . .
The intemperance of his Cherokee majesty, and his chiefs,
and the selfish views of the proprietors of our public
gardens in so plentifully treating them with strong liquors,
give occasion to the considerate sincerely to wish them
safely shipp'd off for their own country. . . . At the same
time a songstress of the grove attempted the honor of
traversing the walks with the swarthy monarch dangling on
her arm; but the press was so much, as to oblige him to
retire, with his chief, (and many ladies of the town) into
the orchestra, where they entertained themselves and the
gaping multitude, by sounding the keys of the organ,
scraping upon the strings of a violin, clapping their hands
in return for the claps of applause bestowed upon them; and
swallowing, by wholesale, very large bumpers of Frontiniac
wine. . . .
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