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Ill Starred Year Dramas From Versailles to Dublin
Reports from Bayonne Metz and Versailles recount illnesses fires and a plague of accidents. The Duke de Bellisle falls ill at Metz while his wife travels to the country seat at St Ouen. A fire at Versailles damages the dog kennels as the king surveys the scene. A theft near Thames Street ends with two men jailed at Newgate. London ships report health and travel successes through Smyrna to Gibraltar. Dublin and Cork note storms prices deaths and ship losses with multiple local incidents and a scaffold collapse at Parliament House.
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St. Ouen
Count de Bellisle
Metz
Bayonne
Doria
Republick of
Genoa
Versailles
Montbourron
Vere Mtered
Stephens
Thames Street
Mr. Stephens
William Bilters
Newgate
Drake
Dundass
Lisbon
Gibraltar
Tompkin
Riverhead
Kent
Champion Purser
Williams
John Petre
Smyrna
Constantinople
Honourable
Turkey Company
Northforeland
England
Durham
Joseph Hall
Dublin
Parliament House
Kildare
Edward O Brien
Temple-age
Ross
Kingstreet
Dillon
Garret Dillon
Donnybrook