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PG-P.752.022
30 Apr 1752:12,13 (1220)
Extract of a letter from Utrecht, dated January 1.
The electoral court of Cologne is, at length, set out for
Munich; everything is on that account in the more melancholy
situation at Bonn, as the inhabitants of that city can but
very indifferently, if at all, subsist without its presence;
several creditable tradesmen have already withdrawn
themselves in order to go and settle elsewhere, having no
prospect of gaining a livelihood by a court which very
seldom resides there, and which, according to all
appearance, will continued to travel from one place to
another so long as the Elector shall live and continue in
health, which probably will not be many years, seeing that
Prince is greatly aged, . . . [4 lines] The oeconomy of his
household likewise is very much changed; his court is no
longer the same where benefactions used to be dispersed with
profusion: but there is now nothing more of that, excepting
among musicians and players, who entirely engross the favour
and expense of his Serene Electoral Highness, which
increases for, and is made upon them every day more than
others. It is now no more the splendid, nor political
court, it once was thought to be. . . [16 lines, conflict
between Elector and his Chapter;] When the Elector
expressed his desire of celebrating the birth of the Duke of
Burgundy, by a Te Deum to be sung in the cathedral of
Munster. . . it was refused him; but, in order to make a
shew of preserving the Episcopal authority, that ceremony
was performed in the Chapel of a convent of friars, where
very few people assisted.
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