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AM diverted from the general subject of my discourses, to reflect upon an event of a very extraordinary and suprisingsurprising [sic] nature. A great minister, in high confidence with the queen, under whose management the weight of affairs at present is in a great measure supposed to lie; sitting in council, in a royal palace, with a dozen of the chief officers of the state, is stabbed at the very board in the execution of his office, by the hand of a French papist, then under examination for high treason; the assassin doubles