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Royal Academy Elects New Scholar After Death of Commander
Mail from France reports the Royal Academy of History elects a successor to fill the vacant seat left by John Francis de Souza, with the new Academician pledging to write histories of Don Pedro I and Don Ferdinand. News from St Petersburg notes a royal betrothal, a governor appointed, and ships cruising the Barbary coast, while Constantinople and Bulgaria face tolls and military movements. The era's mix of appointments, voyages, and geopolitical shifts is chronicled in dense, period-voiced dispatches.
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Royal Academy of History
John Francis de Souza
Don Gonsalves
Manuel Galvaon de la Cerda
Torrain
St. Bartholomew de Rabal
Order of Christ
House of Braganza
Notre-Dame of the Conception
Maranhaon
Don Lope de Souza Coutinho
Island
St. Thomas
Petersburg
Dabhorucki
Guards
Preobrazinski
Moscow
M. Fink
Council of Commerce
Count Munich
Wilster
Neva
Novograd
Archangel
Caspian Sea
Constantinople
Bulgaria
Vidin
Nizza
Servia
Europe
Georgia
Bagdad
Persia
Malta
Algiers
Tunis
Tripoli
Porte
Egypt
Bashans
Peversailles
Far
M. de’ Lamoignon de Courfon
M. le Bret
Grit