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Foreign and Domestick News Item Summary from Moscow Dispatch
Late night arrivals include a British packer and a Sunday shipment with two Holland, two French, and one Flanders mail. News from Moscow reports coronation preparations for the Empress toward late April with foreign visitors, custody of clergymen, and an embassy from the Cham of the Carmucks. Military notes describe Ottoman frontier activity, a 60,000-man army, and convoys of money and arms to Afstracan, plus potential Persian frontiers action and Turkish mining in Georgia. Algiers reports privateers returning after escape attempts by Dutch warships, with plans to counter sea-raiders. Domerick advices note French Mecklenburg and Courland letters seeking imperial mediation and relief from Russian forces in Courland, with orders to Count Wratislaus for Saxony and Warsaw.