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European dispatches and court chatter from Falmouth to Berlin
A London dated letter mix reports on a conference between the Bishop of Bamberg and the Emperor over Moscow dispatches, looming Turku Persia tensions, and a potential war. It notes ships, royal progresses, Polish and Dutch affairs, and arrivals from Britain, Prussia, and Brandenburg with ministerial movements and military plans, alongside a long medical anecdote about worm powders sold in London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Esterday
Bamberg
Wurtzbourg
de Wratislav
Moscow
Turku
Persia
Raffa
Adrianople
Maldivia
Walachia
Don Emanuel
Portugal
Enzendorf
Warsaw
Liria
Chain of Tartary
Dresden
Hague
Admiralty
Finch
Great Britain
Nassau Orange
Guelderland
Leeuwarde
Hanover
Prussia
Berlin
Prince Royal
Gustrin
M. Meinershagen
Residenz
Prince Dz Scherbarow
Col
Po Enitz
Folanj
Falmouth
Caroline
Capt
Rowett
Rotterdam
Ostend
Bofer
Nantz
Bourdeaux
Crown
London
Ware
Leghorn
Liverpool
Waterford
William
Meredith
Virginia
Lively
Macmullen
Guinea
Jamaica
Kinsale
George and Francis
Walpole
Clarke
Lion
Richardson
St. Kitts
Beaumaris
Deal
Frances
Lawson
East India
John Moore
Laurence-Pountney’s-Lane
Leader
Hungerford Market
James Abrte
William Aylect
Canterbury
Benjamin Smithurst
Plymouth
Peter Brown
St. Thomas’street
Bristols
John Moores
England
Byfield