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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Letters from Paris on July 23 report French court distress over British capture of Pondicherry, dividing councils on peace terms with Britain. Merchants' pressure expected to compel the King to accept British conditions for peace preliminaries at the anticipated congress.
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It is added, that the French Councils were so much divided in their Opinions touching the Terms for concluding a general Pacification with Great Britain, that nothing definitive had as yet been resolved on.
However as the Loss of Pondicherry had in a great Measure affected the trading Merchants of France, it was expected their Remonstrances would occasion the Compliance of his Most Christian Majesty, to the last Conditions offered by the Court of Great Britain for settling the Preliminaries for treating of a Peace at the expected Congress.
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Paris
Event Date
July 23
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reduction of pondicherry by british forces; expected french compliance to british peace conditions
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The French court received news of the British capture of Pondicherry and expressed great concern. French councils are divided on terms for peace with Great Britain, with no resolution yet. The loss impacts French merchants, whose remonstrances are expected to prompt the King to accept Britain's latest conditions for peace preliminaries at the expected congress.