Moscow, Jan. 8. Advices from Derbent say, that the princes of Georgia passed that place, in their way home much pleased with the honours they have received from this court, and that one of them, who lives near mount Arrarat, had promis’d to send the Empress a relique of Noah’s Ark.
Venice. ’Tis currently reported that this republick will equip a squadron of twenty Ships of war, to put to sea early next spring, to watch the motions of the Turks.
Vienna, Jan. 20. Our hopes of an accommodation with Spain encrease daily.
Paris. New proposals of accommodation are negotiating with Spain and the Emperor; and ’tis thought with a fair prospect of success.
Swisserland, Bern. Provision is making in all the protestant cantons for the reception of a great number of Waldenses, who are depriv’d of their liberties and drove from their habitations, by their sovereign the duke of Savoy.
Vienna. There are privately handed about here copies of the Ultimatum (or last proposals) of the allies of Seville, as transmitted hither from Paris; the substance of which is as follows.
1. They would stipulate by a secret article not to oppose the settlement of Succession which the Emperor might make for his Territories in Italy, and which should be freely accepted by the States thereof; and they would engage to guaranty that Settlement.
2. They would stipulate by a secret article, that they would not oppose the advantages of Succession, which the Emperor, with the consent of the different States of Italy, might procure in favour of the archdutchess his daughter; and contribute to maintain what he shall so establish for his daughters, or for any one he shall pitch upon, with regard to his Territories in Italy; and even to guaranty what may be established by the Emperor in consequence of that Settlement.
Seville, Jan. 16. Couriers are continually arriving upon the heels of one another, which occasion frequent councils.