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Sweden and Britain seek repeal of Baltic navigation bans
A British minister pleads with the Queen of Sweden to remove the Baltic navigation prohibition and to compensate losses from seized ships and wartime trade barriers. The Swedish Crown accepts mutual talks, appoints commissioners, and grants limited freedom of navigation to British ships in the Baltic while affirming friendship and commerce between Sweden and Great Britain. London, Aug 25. News notes: Benson secures Whitehall wharf grant. Northampton and Devonshire families in period updates. South Sea Stock values and lottery tickets listed.
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Great Britain
Sweden
Baltick
Livonia
Stockholm
O. S
Lord Carteret
Palace of
Carlsberg
Kingdom of
Czar
Muscovy
London
William Benson
Whitehall
Samuel Stebbing
Somerset Herald
Sandford
King’s of
England
Northampton
Duke of Devonshire
Lords
Ireland
Lord Londonderry
Paris