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News Briefs From Europe and the Mediterranean
The Evening Post reports dispatches from Paris Alamain and Messina detailing orders for galley readiness and troop movements. It notes convoys from Barcelona and Cadix, plan to raise two regiments in the kingdom, and naval activity around Melazzo and Messina. George Byng sails for Port Mahon and preparations to aid Imperialists in Sicily. Paris reports the Mississippi Company seeking a Florida colony, while Berwick reviews frontier forces and Swedish diplomacy swift to Stockholm. London notes the death of Lady Fox and Adam de Cardonel, with a stabbings incident at Newgate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Paris- Alamain
Patermo
Madrid
Messina
Porto Longone
Barcelona
Melazzo
Bayonne
Cadix
Hve
New Spain
Roth
Malaga
Ceuta
Melilla
Barbary
Leghorne
Palermo
Genoa
Paris
England
Earl of Stairs
Conde
Hou
Conti
D’ Olonne
Spain
Naples
George Byng
Port Mahon
Sicily
Sardinia
Fort Mahon
George
Gibraltar
Petersburg
Fox
Olonicz
Chancery
Misisipi
Florida
AM. de Groizac
Missisipi
Duke of Berwick
Eis
States General
Hamburg
Aland
Count Gyllenburg
M. Stambke Baron Gortz
Russia
Stockholm
M. Pouffin
Count de la Mark
Sweden
London