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Contagion reports and European diplomacy notes
London reports a distemper outbreak in the capital driving the distinguished to the countryside while Smyrna notes plague decline. Vienna details Oriental Company talks on Danube trade reroutes via Trieste, plans for road works, and mutual defense with Spain. Madrid covers St Louis festival honors, royal grants, and naval movements, with galley and garrison redeployments. Paris notes ongoing ministerial conferences, a feast at Fontainebleau, and a royal audience for Horace Walpole. News from Brupels records the Bengal ship Charles VI arriving laden, amid quarantine for Levant and ecclesiastical port arrivals.
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Constantinople
Uring
Smyrna
Vienna
Oriental Company
Danube
Trieste
Spain
Cadiz
Tanbach
Carniole
Gorice
Roth
Istria
Fiume
Gratz
Madrid
St. Lewis
France
Vittoria
Marquess de Valdecanas
Navarré
Diego Garcia Panez
Regiment de
Barcelona
Majorca
Canaries
Marquess de Valdermoso
Cartagena
Toransport
Eas
Céuta
Levant
Cardinal de Fleury
Fontainbleau
de ‘Zinzendorft
Duke de Bournonville
d’Axelles
Horacio Walpole
Duke of Richmond
Church of the Invalides