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Mail from France and Holland Prompted Turmoil At Sea
Yesterday arrived mail from France and Holland. News from Tripoli reports a French captain near the port, Moors in irons after a raid, and a hostage exchange involving seventeen Christian slaves. Constantinople fire devastates two thirds of the city. Ottoman ambassador’s reception noted. Vienna reports plague in Constantinople, quarantine orders, and new embassy movements. Wordingberg fire in Zealand and Brunswick diplomatic delays spread war-preparation rumors. Marseilles bankruptcy of Coler firm. royal hunting plans and royal health updates in Versailles. Further coastal shipping movements and Caribbean arrivals tracked.
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Tripoli
Grodno
Choczin
Constantinople
Efreff
Ispahan
Thomas
Eurastan
Vienna
M. Tahlman
Temiswar
Belgrade
Turku
Spain
Ottoman Parte
Seraglio
Chiaux- Rathew
Adrianople
Venice
Warsap
Lithuania
Dresden
Poland
Hamborg
Denmark
Wordingberg
Zeland
Berghen
Norway
Amsterdam
Great Britain
Prussia
Brunwick
Dauphin
Versailles
Bavaria
Mi. de Reza
France
Munich
Marshal Dubourg
Alsatia
Duke of
Antin
Senars
Petitbourg
Eanpire
Stanislaus