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… deeds – wooing the Czarina by pretending to be Charles XII and flogging penitents in the Sistine Chapel – stem from Horace Walpole (1717-1797), 12 whose lifelong antipathy towards Dashwood makes him figure as a less reliable source. While … it must have happened during or shortly after Dashwood’s Divan Club, which held its last meeting on May 25 th 1746. 12 . Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third Vol. 1, 2018 [1845], p. 172f. 13 . Nathaniel Wraxall, …
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