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VGW(HU.755.041
10 Oct 1755:22 (248)
London. . . July 29. In order to reconcile that report
concerning the French ambasador's being insulted, which
occasioned his sudden departure, the public may be assured
it was not more than this: That on the news of our taking
two of their men of war in North-America, the gentlemen
performers on the old English musick on marrow-bones and
cleavers, went to pay their usual compliments to the
nobility at White's, and in passing through King-street, St.
James's Square, where the ambassador lived, they formed
their circle, and rang him a peal; and afterwards proceeded
in great order to St. James's Street. 'Tis said he never
got the sound out of his ears, till he was saluted by the
guns on the rampart, upon his landing at Calais.
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