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Royal visitors and port news mingle through Paris to London
A dated letter from Madrid reports the Prince and Princess of Asturias visiting the King and Queen at the Palace of St Idelphonio, with plans for devotion, hunting, and a four to five day stay. Other items note ships returning to Rio de la Plata, court promotions, a horseman tutor for the king, ecclesiastical appointments, and stock market engravings plus a public notice for a creditors meeting and a lottery prospectus in Winchester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Madrid
Princess of
Asturias
St. Idelphonio
St. Mary de Caulato
Carthusians
Buenos Ayres
Cadiz
Don Garcia Salvador Pete
Rio-de-la-Plata
Paris
M. Dubois
M. d’Agoremer
M. Gibert
Leffer
Normandy
Marquess of
Courcy Plemarets
Towers
Tulle
d’Argentre
London
Calais
Lisle
Waugh
Carlisle
Lambeth Chapel
Winchester
Ely
Rochester
Canterbury
John Betterworth
the Arches
York
William
Lord Witherington
Preston
Nicholas Fazakerly
Inner Temple
Thomas Pheryel
Berryman
St. Mary Ax
St. Paul'’s
Cambridge
Hou‘e
Snape
Constantine’ Phipps
White Waltham
Maidenhead
Albany
Schuyler
Bank
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
London Assurance
York Buildings
Edward
Earl of
Clarendon
Five Bells
New Church
Saand
Ordder