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Court and Foreign Affairs News from Amsterdam Courant
Reports from Amsterdam and Berlin discuss the Czar’s Moscow departure date and possible marital alliances, with Princesses, and a Prussian title for the Czar. Paris and Hamburg items note exchanges between Spain and France, island venues for negotiations, and naval incidents near Algarves and Barbary. A Brazilian viceroy reports new mines near St Paul and natives trading gold for gunpowder. Amsterdam notes suggest Petersburg merchants will shift to Petersburg and Riga, with routes via Archangel limited. A dead man found in a forest with 600 florins prompts police inquiry.
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Amsterdam
Petersburg
Moscow
Duke of Helstein
Knights of the Order of St. Andrew
Duke of Heltein
Duke de Chartres
Baron de Mardenfeld
Prussia
Archange
Berlin
de Hampered
Potsdam
Armsterdam
Paris
Infanta
Spain
Mademoiselile de Montpensier
Biddaifa
Fontatabia
Bay of Biscay
France
Fao
M. du Bois
M-de la Roche
Bonna
Maria’ Barbara
Faro
Algarves
Caryogera
Villa Nova
Brazils
Jacobina
St. Paul
Jane
Hague
Archangel
Duanex
Riga
Ploscow
Nerva
Amsterdam Courant
Senna