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NYGWPB.762.127
9 Sep 1762:21 (1027)
London. A gentleman who arrived in town on Wednesday from
Germany happened to be passing near Freyberg at the time of
the solemn publication of the peace between Russia and
Prussia in the camp of Prince Henry. The joy it gave him
was beyond all description. In the morning of the 26th of
May the signal was given by the discharge of all their
artillery, and the air rung with the harmony of kettledrums,
trumpets, fifes and hautboys. Forty thousand men sung Te
Deum; and Prince Henry dined at a table of a hundred covers.
. . [2 lines]. Tuesday the peace was concluded at
Petersburgh, all the ministers of state and all the generals
were, by the Emperor's order invited to the palace. . . [6
lines] They then all partook of a most sumptuous banquet at
the palace, where after the health of the Czar, and Czarina,
that of the King of Prussia was drank, accompanied with the
sound of drums and trumpets, and the repeated discharge of
all their artillery.
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