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NYG(B.728.004
29 Jan-5 Feb 1728:11,12 (118)
Hamburgh. Cyrill Wych, Envoy Extraordinary of Great
Britain, has celebrated with much magnificence the
coronation of their Britannick Majesties. The day before
yesterday his Excellency gave a concert of musick,
accompanied with very fine illuminations, invented by Mr.
Lediard his secretary, and represented in a triumphal hall,
adorned not only with great variety of emblems, inscriptions
and gilded statues, representing the most famous Kings of
England, but also a triumphal arch, illuminated and
supported by 4 columns of a clear transparent red; one saw
behind that arch a clear magnificent machine, illuminated,
which descended from the clouds, and which was adorned also
with divers columns flying angels and transparent festows. .
. These illuminations surpassed, for magnificence and fine
contrivance, all that had ever been seen here. Yesterday
this minister treated in the same manner, those of the
English nation who reside here, as also several gentlemen
and ladies, and on Monday next his Excellency will terminate
the feast with a concert of musick, followed by a ball in
masques. The Society of English Merchants, made also the
day before yesterday, a grand feast, which began with a
sumptuous dinner, and all present wore white cockades with
this inscription, God bless King George the Second, and
Queen Caroline his Spouse.
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