ED 360 03 04 28
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ED 360 03 04 28
Title
Fanny Keate: Letter from Countess Pauline Neale
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Item
Date
4 November 1813
Content description
From Berlin
Overcome by the news of victory.Great excitement when the King entered town on the very day which 7 years before the French had made their appearance. As he alighted by the Church, shouts of joy reached the sky. So glad that her station in her life allowed her to watch every expression of the King's features. He looked moved and grateful. His path was strewn with flowers of the season and handkerchiefs and flags were waved. He received the same rapture at the theatre. Such a dignified expression. The English Hymn God Save the King has been adopted and it was the most proper occasion to use it. Shouts of praise to the Allies including the English. He had previously attended divine service where his blessed Queen was buried. She saw the King the next day as she accompanied the Pss at a dinner at Charlottenburg. Joy that the troops had entered Leipzig taken by storm, and no one was molested, and they had neither slept nor eaten for 3 days.
Feels her pen is polluted describing 500 thousand men and 2 thousand pieces of artillery bent on their mutual destruction.Horror as no village or spire is left to show that it was ever inhabited. Where had everyone gone and who would bury the dead? On entering Leipzig the King had to watch that the Emperor of Russia being so short sighted did not find that his horse crushed the healthy on the ground. The King of Saxony's features are strained with his woes, his own troops had deserted. Extraordinary tale that a letter from Fanny had been dropped and then found by a stranger in the streets of Leipzig.
Still wishing to visit 'that delightful Eton' again.
Miss Birkoffeverden does not believe it is safe in Berlin until the Royal children return. She is to marry a Russian soldier she met when he was wounded in her mothers house. They will go to live in Petersburg.
Addressed to Mrs Keate Eton College, Windsor
Berlin Nov 1813
Overcome by the news of victory.Great excitement when the King entered town on the very day which 7 years before the French had made their appearance. As he alighted by the Church, shouts of joy reached the sky. So glad that her station in her life allowed her to watch every expression of the King's features. He looked moved and grateful. His path was strewn with flowers of the season and handkerchiefs and flags were waved. He received the same rapture at the theatre. Such a dignified expression. The English Hymn God Save the King has been adopted and it was the most proper occasion to use it. Shouts of praise to the Allies including the English. He had previously attended divine service where his blessed Queen was buried. She saw the King the next day as she accompanied the Pss at a dinner at Charlottenburg. Joy that the troops had entered Leipzig taken by storm, and no one was molested, and they had neither slept nor eaten for 3 days.
Feels her pen is polluted describing 500 thousand men and 2 thousand pieces of artillery bent on their mutual destruction.Horror as no village or spire is left to show that it was ever inhabited. Where had everyone gone and who would bury the dead? On entering Leipzig the King had to watch that the Emperor of Russia being so short sighted did not find that his horse crushed the healthy on the ground. The King of Saxony's features are strained with his woes, his own troops had deserted. Extraordinary tale that a letter from Fanny had been dropped and then found by a stranger in the streets of Leipzig.
Still wishing to visit 'that delightful Eton' again.
Miss Birkoffeverden does not believe it is safe in Berlin until the Royal children return. She is to marry a Russian soldier she met when he was wounded in her mothers house. They will go to live in Petersburg.
Addressed to Mrs Keate Eton College, Windsor
Berlin Nov 1813
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