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VGW(HU.770.044
16 Aug 1770:32 (1004)
London. June 8. Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Macaulay, the
celebrated historian (with a select party of her friends)
was entertained on board the ship Dutchess of Gordon,
Captain Winn; on which occasion the ship was decorated with
a prodigious number of flags and streams, disposed in an
elegant manner. On the ensign staff was displayed a large
emblematical flag, on which was depicted liberty with her
insignia, supported on the one hand by the historick muse
crowned by a fame, and on the other by fortitude, with an
inscription. As soon as the company embarked the musick in
the barge played Handel's water piece until they came under
the ship's stern, when it ceased, and the band in the ship
began with The Hero Comes, until Mrs. Macaulay was on board,
and then changed to Rule Britania. On her entering the
cabin she was saluted by a discharge of cannon. Captain
Winn had designed a grand illumination on board his ship, in
honour of his illustrious visitor, which was omitted by her
particular request.
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