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Powder and plunder amid Polish election upheaval
Reports from Warsaw and Dresden recount a powder stash found in Casimir Palace caverns amid the Polish crown election. Lt Col Jauch fled to a convent after arrest orders, 20 000 florins in losses, hoards of hay and oats seized, and royal ministers retreating as Russian and Saxon forces maneuver. News from Vienna Dresden and Frankfort describe Empress dowager Amelia's accolades, dispatches to Swabia, and outward war preparations across Europe.
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Warsaw
Palace of Casimir
Jauch
Podlachia
Ponnania
Madam Potocka
Skaryszewo
Saxony
Poland
M. Poninski
Dresden
Dantzick
Vistula
Czakroczin
Piacaczno
Crown
Palatine of
Lublin
Prussia
M. Sapieha
M. Cetner
Wieniowieska
Lubomirska
Madam Branizka
Berlin
Amelia
Pilsen
Swabia
Hungary
Servia
Bannat of Temiswar
Transylvania
Suria
Italy
Great Britain
M. Buffi
France
Sicily
Constantinople
N.S
Lieven Arriv
Leslie
Pzirck
Counts de Spieski
de Lipski
Holstein
Starost Lenowski
John Adolph of
Saxe-Weiffenfels
Leipsick
M. de Mielkaw
Upper Palatinate
Black Forest
Brisgau
Rhine
Ratisboz
Philipsburg
Kehl
Frankfort
Marshal de Berwick
Saxe-Eysenach
Saxe-Gotha
Friburg
Upper Rhine
Amsterdam
Paris
Strasburg
Fort Kehl
M. Zeno
Republick of
Venice
Fontainebleau
M. Mocenigo