Discontented wanderer reflects on Japan and Europe
Letter LX from Pun Hoam to Lien Chi Alangi describes a recent embassy visit to Japan, the Emperor's reception of a Dutch envoy, and the humiliating ceremonies. He condemns European greed, laments Dutch effects on dignity, and vows to leave a corrupt society for a simpler life abroad.
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Lien Chi Alangi
Moscow
Japan
Europe
Jedo
Holanda Capitan
Altangi
Pekin
Exiled clerics and Jesuit voyage amid European tremors
A fragmentary dispatch details exiles of M Aguilar and John Baptist with the Oratory. Don John, Grand Inquisitor confessor, arrested. Fifty-nine Jesuits sail from Fernambuco, with three dead. News from Vienna, Stuttgard, and Saxony notes marching troops and political plots. London reports three English miles of Prussian Austrian front, Lauban burned by accident, and a stream of ships arriving at ports including Lisbon, Plymouth, and Arbroath.
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M. Aguilar
John Baptist
John ‘Chevalier
Order of the Oratory
Don. John
St. Augustin
Fernambuco
Civita Vechia
Syria
Vienna
Fulu
Botta
Lombardy
Stuttgard
Wirtemberg
Heilbron
Hohensee
Anspach
Wartzburgh
Saxony
Our
Overeign
Hanover
Marsoal Broglio
London
Lusatia
Lauban
Siresid
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Oporto
Corbach
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Frantfort
Fily
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Caffel
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Mr. de Belfance
M. de Commeiras
Clermont
Arenberg
Duke de Broglio
M. de Vair
Saltzkotten
Paris
Toulon
M. de Rochemore
Normandy
Asia
Pondicherry
Port NE
Deal
Downs
His
St. George
Arethusa
Thomas and Jane
Barlow
Holland
Lisbon
Tuly
Anthony, Parera
Plymouth
Elizabeth, Caffie
Berwick
Campvere
N.S. da Lapa
da Costa
George and
Richard
Cowes
Maria Agneta
Klinkert
Amsterdam
Wallace and Gardyne
Littlesch
Norway
Arbroath
Woodward
William, Brown
Bristol
Falmouth
Truro
Dublin
Milford
Portsmouth
Southampton
Victuallers
Quiberon Bay
Scorpion
Speedwell
Cruize
Thursay
Portland Road
Prince
Edward
Wills
Antiqua Fe
Weymouth
Alexander
Elliott
Success
Williams
Mary
Jorneau
Jersey
Stephen
Francis
Forrest
Lyme
Endeavour
Bridekirk
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