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Excerpt from The Scottish Friend of Frederic the Great, Vol. 2: The Last Earl Marischall
His Excellency arrived at Neuchatel on September 20th, 1754, as tired as a dog, he wrote to the King, with the bad roads and worse weather, though as I came near here it turned fine.
The first night that I entered Switzerland they gave me cherries at the inn, the second strawberries and raspberries. I was some what alarmed, as the cherries were not yet ripe; but in the castle to which Your Majesty's kindness has invalided me I have had, up till now, Spanish Weather and the finest View in the world. I have already undergone many speeches, every one privately, and everyone as a body has harangued me, and I have still many awaiting me. My grandeur acquits itself very badly in reply; I did better in church this morning, where the boredom occasioned by the sermon doubtless passed for a contrite air. I hope the 'venerable Classe (title given to the Synod) was edified by my countenance; I have naturally a sad and Calvinistic phiz. In eight days the ceremonies will be over, and I beg Your Majesty to believe that I will do my best in your affairs.
The journal of Abraham Sandol, justice and Civil lieutenant of the mountain village of de Chaux de Fonds, gives us a description of Milord Marechal's arrival at Neuchatel to take up the reins of government.
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