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Vast foreign dispatches from Lifeon to Versailles and London
The Daily Post reports from Lifeon on March 9 that the King decreed captains loading for Brazil and Portuguese settlements must register freight at the Holy Ghost Board and may not raise rates, with a thousand cruzado fine. Updates from Goa note tranquil relations with the viceroy. News from the Bay of All Saints describes Our Lady of Prazeres fighting Algerine corsairs off Cape Verd, and Don Vasco Terrand Cesar de Menezez’s commendation. Versailles coverage details Palm Sunday ceremonies and mourning rites for Savoy’s duchess, with numerous dignitaries and ambassadors in attendance. Paris reports include preparations for Notre Dame prayers for the late Duchess of Savoy’s son, state payments and prosecutions in the La Jonchere affair, and court appointments. London notes Parliament appointments, army placement reforms, and official prosequences, plus writs in circulation and town administration changes.