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Storms and political turmoil stir European notes
The letter reads of M Chauvelin's banishment threats and a Wake of court intrigues as Gooch kills a royal hand, and a sweets duty bill hints at vineyard incentives. Reports cover Corsican Genoa troubles, OBrien rewards, Newfoundland transport, and Barbary locusts amid Morocco turmoil.
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John Potter
Canterbury
M. Chauvelin
Orleans
Toulouse
Noailles
Lower Poictou
Gooch
Salisbury
St. James’s
Brifal
Secker
Oxford
England
King of
Bompton
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
Hogarth
Richard Bowles
Shoreditch Church
Duke of Portland
Buckinghamire
Treasury
Terence Obrain
Ryan
Fitzzerald
Faulkner
Tyburn
House of Commons
Commissioners of Excise
Corsica
Republick of
Genoa
Ward
Smith
Streichts
Bilboa
Sweden
Streights
Portugal
Spain
Admiralty
Depeford
Sainte Croix
Africa
Europe
Kingdom
Suzi
Barbary
Sante Croix
Morocco
Maley Abdallah
Mequinez
Muley Hamet Ben Lamba
Vienna
Duke of