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News from London and distant ports report court and private letters
London readers receive private letters from Madrid Lisbon and Boston detailing the Dowager Queen of Spain near death and the Portuguese ruler wounded but recovering. Other dispatches note Russian troops retreating to the Vistula Prussians beating the Swedes in Saxony and privateers seizing a large Spanish ship with flour wine and soldiers clothing off New York bound for Halifax.
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London
Madrid
Spain
Lisbon
Yorke
Hague
Vistula
Saxony
Accoun
Africa
Woolwich
Portsmouth
Boston
Fort’ Edward
Frontenac
Col
Bradstreet
Furry
Louisbourg
Columbine
York
New York
Halifax
Hampshire
Norbury
Plymouth
Elizabeth
Ross
Dundee
Riga
Marquis Bariel
Marine Society
Regiment of Guards
Whitehall
Tower
Chef Savoy
White Hll
Somerset House
Savoy
Lords of the Admiralty
James Hall
Temple
Hull
Bishopsgate Church
George Higgins
Houndsditch
Baker
Robertson
Berkeley Square Chapel
Raikes
Sheer-Lane
Newington Butts
John Wallden
High Court of Chancery
Ésterday
Hid House
Berry Sitten
St. Mary Axe
Moses Umbiefoxay Mattos
Bank of ‘England
Jef
Devonshire
Mary Roode
Pisce
Bris Weinar
Tulse
Mr. Wells
Pana
Abbey
James
Bondstreet