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Paris Inn Burial Farce Sparks Court Case
A man found senseless at an inn in Clermont led a parson to stage a grand funeral with the money in his portmanteau. The supposed dead man revived asking for his effects, the tale prompting a pending lawsuit as authorities weigh the misadventure and related parliamentary notices and local happenings.
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Tc Ofth
J Gray
Mr. Iu
Ts Ae
Mosft
Pike
S Ta
Mr. Sykes
Surajah
Sykes
Beecher
India
Severn ‘Canal
George Germaine
Clermont
Parfos
Lisbon
Portugal
At&t
Ueber
Aneice
Jamaica
Dominica
Parliamen
Committee of Ways and Means
House of Lords
Bouthampton
Eetate of Lords
Sheffield
Birmingham
Conithetis
St. Jamies’s
Kent
Elizabeth
Con.Esq
Foot-Guards
Tieuténant
Alexander Campbell
Clive
Republlick
Genoa
Madrid
New-Spain
Brest
France
Rochelle
Oleron
Paris
Portmouth
Thomas Stanyford
Stanyford
Express
Noblemen and Gentlemen’s Plate
Miare
Fortes
Piccadilly
Piccadillar