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European and Atlantic Dispatches Signal Ongoing Diplomacy and War News
Reports from VIenna and Seville describe treaty prospects and cardinal pacification talks with King Philip, while Gibraltar and Cadiz host naval movements against Barbary corsairs and contraband. Dispatches note Eugene of Savoy, Austrian Council orders for Hungary, and marriage rumors involving Infante Don Carlos and Archduchess Eleonora amid court reshuffles. Local ports report multiple ships, convoys, and market data as London Parliament grants royal assent and various appointments.
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Duke of Limia
Vienna
Keen
London
Marquess de la Paz
St. Roche
Gibraltar
Barbary
Cadiz
Lima
Porto Bello
Carthagena
Vera Crux
West Indies
Aulick Council of War
Italy
Hunary
Eugene of Savoy
Luxembourg
Prince Emanuel
Portugal
Don Carlos
Eleonora
Duke of
Paris
M. Patinho
Count de Rothembourg
Seville
Spain
France
Falmouth
Penryn
Penzance
Edgecomb
St. Sebastian’s
Anne
Gibbins
Streights
Winchester
Newell
Faro
Elizabeth
Martha
Seawall
Canaries
Dartmouth
Dorothy
Teague
Guernsey
Olding
Holland
Hooper
King George
Dover
Hutchen
Oporto
Merryman
Thompson
Lisbon
Plymouth
John and
Henry of
Topsham
Stafford
Hull
Alicant
Jane and
Peter
And
Delander
Samuel
Yarmouth
Clifton
Cette
Rotterdam
William and Mary
Port Isaac
Billing
Padstow
Dunkirk
Comes
George
William
Finney
Waterford
Camhire
Beatlon
Reme
Peggy
Welton
Carolina
Amsterdan