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Nations prepare for fasting day and royal rites in Copenhagen
A late March mail from Copenhagen reports King Frederick V designates March 21 as a day of fasting. Lazare, a Jew, was baptized at the Palace chapel with nobility present. News from Vienna Naples and Paris follows with reports of a pregnant sultaness, a Palermo conspiracy, and French politics.
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