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Royal visit to Frescat and coastal shipping notes
France August 16 dispatches describe the Duke of Lorraine and suite dining at Frescat near Metz with a grand display including two tables of 25 covers, a concert, 28 cannon salutes and royal theatricals. Later reports list shipping arrivals and military movements along Deal and Gravesend with multiple vessels bound for Boston, Malaga, Madeira, Antigua, and Carolina.
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Paris
N. S. Etters
Metz
Duke of
Lorrain
Frescat
Count de Belliffe
M. de Montholon
Count de Bavaria
Terras
Orangerie
Mosick
Frouard
Falmouth
Rachel
Fanny
London
Leghorn
Topsham
Ditto
Virginia
Newton
Ramsgate
Coxton
Streights
Yarmouth
Newman
New- Castle
New- Castle, For This Place. Wind E.S. E
Deal
Cruizer
Charles
Devon
Boston
Embleton
Pain
Shoreham
Edwards
Carolina
Greenock
Anderson
Guinea
True Friend
Peacock
Mary
Saunders
Malaga
John and Mary
Bradford
Madeira
Antigua