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 | | The lantmarskalk, or speaker of the House of Nobles, presided hen the estates met in congress, and also, by virtue of. |
 | | The European complications consequent with upon the almost simultaneous deaths of the emperor [[Charles VI] and empress Anne of Russia, seemed to favour their adventurous schemes; and, despite the frantic protests of the Caps, a project for the invasion of Russian Finland was rushed through the premature Riksdag of 1740. |
 | | In the contest for speaker of the Riksdag (Lantmarskalk) the leaders of the two parties were again pitted against each other, when the verdict of the last Diet was exactly reversed, von Fersen defeating Rudbeck by 234, though Russia spent no less a sum than 90,000 Riksdaler to secure the election of the latter. |
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