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The Newport Gazette
Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island
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A letter from The Hague reports that an unnamed ambassador to Versailles was disgraced because his English wife conducted secret correspondence with British Ambassador Lord Stormont, revealing via a Turin clerk a covert treaty between Bourbon, Austria, Poland, Sweden, and Sardinia.
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Extract of a letter from the Hague, Aug. 5.
We have letters from Paris, which assert, that the disgrace of a certain Ambassador to the Court of Versailles, is on account of the Countess his lady, who is an English woman, having been found out carrying on a secret correspondence with Lord Stormont, the English Ambassador, and by means of the first Clerk of the department of foreign affairs at Turin, discovering to him that a private Treaty had been concluded between the House of Bourbon and Austria, and the Kings of Poland, Sweden, and Sardinia.
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Paris
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Aug. 5
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disgrace of a certain ambassador to the court of versailles
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Letters from Paris assert that the disgrace of a certain Ambassador to the Court of Versailles is due to his English wife, the Countess, being discovered in secret correspondence with Lord Stormont, the English Ambassador. Through the first Clerk of the foreign affairs department at Turin, she revealed a private Treaty concluded between the House of Bourbon and Austria, and the Kings of Poland, Sweden, and Sardinia.