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Fragmented European dispatches recounting intrigues and an assassination attempt
A long, fragmented 18th century news scramble reports the Empress recalling subjects from Prussia, war preparations in Saxony and Brandenburg, naval actions near Toulon and Gibraltar, a royal stabbing in Versailles, and political shifts in Ireland and Britain. It mixes court intrigues with military movements, currency price actions, and a Versailles prince’s health update.
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Yisterday
Flanders
Vienna
Prussia
Profia
Dresden
Konigstein
Count de Zinzendorfff
Rome
Holy Father
St. Angelo
Toulon
Fabre de la Seine
Gibraltar
Gentam
Africa
St. Anthony
Algiers
M.le Maire
Paris
Phrchase
Westphalia
Brest
M.:de Beaufremont
St Domingd
Machiavel
Lis
Pompey
Cesar
Crassus
Lucullis
Cato
Gicero
Commonwealth
Czar
England
Gether
Paris Gazette
Mesdames
France
Trianon
Versailles
Count de St. Florentin
Brussels
Damien
Arras
Ialy
James Grenville
Ely
Buckingham
William Pict
Oakhampton
William Fraser
London
Portsmouth
Durell
Cornwall
Young
Gardiner
Byng
Matheny
Bertie
Roebuck
West-Indies
Admiral West