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NYG-A.783.003
3 Feb 1783:21 (1/36)
London, August 4. The following intelligence, we are told,
may be depended on. About six weeks before Christmas last,
a woman about 40 years of age, who called herself the Hon.
Mrs. A. was introduced to the then Premier, at his house in
Downing-street, on the recommendation of an American refugee
of a very celebrated reputation, as a person of the most
exquisite abilities at intrigue. . . [17 lines describing
her setting up as a spy in Paris]. . . she frequented all
public places occasionally, and was at the Court on all
public days; at last, she never missed of being at all the
Queen's concerts, as well as those of the Princes of the
Blood, and had the address to get herself publicly presented
as an American woman of fashion, perfectly unacquainted with
the French tongue: She was constantly at Franklin's levee.
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