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kingdom or his liberty, agreed to the conditions prescribed by George. An English fleet wafted him, his brother, and many of the French nobility to the island of Sardinia, which he took possession of. The King of Great-Britain generously made him a present of fifty thousand pounds to settle his court, and treated him during his captivity, with all the politeness imaginable.—The peace was no sooner signed, than it was proclaimed at London and Paris, and his Majesty was crowned King of France, at Rheims, the 16th of November, 1920, before an immense concourse of British, and French nobility, &c. And leaving the Duke of Devonshire to command in that kingdom; in December, he embarked at Calais, and arrived in England.
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