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Arrival of Russian and Turkish Ministers to Nimirow and London
Reports reach Nimirow and London of grand arrivals from Russia and the Porte with vast retinues. The procession features eight coaches, 25 led horses, 150 camels, 130 mules, 200 wild oxen, and 200 wagons, followed by hundreds of pages, troopers, and grooms. Turkish plenipotentiaries enter amid pomp. detail-rich pageantry and escort surround the multi-nation envoy. A related dispatch notes takedown of Oczakow and siege casualties, plus royal baptisms, marriages, and political arrivals in Britain.
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Russia
Knobelsdorff
Palatinate of Braclau
Porte
Mustapha Effendi
Metipey
Reis-Effendi
Ulple Salvo
Mier
Baron
Hussars
Haven
Black Sea
Keith
Count Biron
Munich
Oczakow
Yeates
St. George’s Fields
Prince and Princess of Wales
St. James’s
Augusta
Duke of Grafiom
Countess of
Burlington
Saxe Gotha
Viscountess
Torrington
Archbishop of Canterbury
Princess of Wales
Prince of Wales
Earl of Jersey
St. James’s Palace
Wilcox
University of Cambridge
Hampton Court
Newark
Sutton
Deceas
William Manners
York
Dukes of Hamilton
Leeds
Straffor
Carlisle
Cromarty
Widdrington
Lonsdale
Fingal
Guernsey
Wentworth
Baron Hilton
Charles Fitzroy
Miles Stapylton
John Kaye
John Bland
Humphry Monnoux
Hugh Smithson
Marmaduke Wyvil
Edmund Thomas
Lyonel Pilkington
Edward Gascoigne
Butler Wentworth
Henry Slingsby
Rowland Wynn
William Wentworth
John Ramsden
Edmund Anderson
Robert Eden
Thomas Frankland
Robert Hildyard
Bathurst
Mansfield
Nottinghamshire
Duke of Kingston
Miller of