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Princess Mary Illness and War News From Europe
LON DUN from Hanover reports Princess Mary of England is gravely ill at Zell and a physician has been sent. Letters to Hamburgh say France will declare war over neutrality concerns. Wartemberg troops move toward Swabia. Allied army preps before Gieffen. Marshal Broglio may relieve. Naples reports 3,000,000 pieces of eight remitted to Spain to pay debts and state expenses. Lisbon notes a pacquet boat with dispatches from Maragnan, four months at sea and aided by an English privateer. Ships taken include Barrington and Warton to Berwick, Four Sisters Downing to Newfoundland, and Tibbie Andrews to Barcades.
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Rippach
Marshal Daun
Aschaffenburgh
Méniz
Ameneburgh
Berching
Hussars
Wirremberg
Rhine
Menz
Ferdinand
Saxony
Fritzlar
Sax-Gotha
Prusia
Kozenhaufn
Prince Henry
Lufacia
Brussels
Paris
Villaine
L’eveille
Toulon
L’orient
Belleisle
Brest
St. Domingo
Dai Hs Punch Nla
Salih Ie
Lon Dun
Hanover
Mary of
England
Hefle-Castel
Zell
Gome
Hamburgh
Wartemberg
Swabia
Sardinia
Germany
Gieffen
Broglio
Naples
Spain
Lisbon
Pacquet
St. Ubes
Maragnan