Flying Post Or Post Master (Newspaper) - May 31, 1698, London, Middlesex O R The POSTMASTER From May to June May THE of Prince of continues and is daily taken up about Matters of great importance he has been 6 or 7 times in conference with the Duke of who tis General of the Troops of the Circle of and is to fend more Regiments into The Margrave of the Duke and the Prince of Lichten is expected but we know not the of fo many Princes meeting together May Our Letters irom Vienna continue to of the Emperors as that the States of Hungary are two Millions in ot the demanded of them by his Imperial and that he will not be ready to open the fo foon as was the of Finances hath not been able to the Sums to that were to provide and that he will be obliged to reduce his Regiments ot from 12 to 16 Troops each for want of We are alfo that the Emperor hath quitted the Dukedom of in Sclavonic to DOB for Money borrowed of We are informed that the Grand hath already fent of Peace to Vi and the Emperor hath communicated the fame the of Poland and and to the Cur of We have Advices from the that the Provinces have to the State of the War for this Year that they have agreed to Florens which the States have laid out in to and other Foreign as alfo tu the entertaining of the Electoral Prince of Brandenburg Regiment to which the Province of to contribute any They have alfo agreed to a Million for cleaning the Channel of to make it the more They hare agreed that the States hall borrow three Millions for the extraordinary ccs of the 500000 Florens to fill up the Maga four Millions for extraordinary preparations by and fuch other Sums js ball be found needful for repairing or augmenting their We arc alfo i hat the fa me Taxes arc Levied in the Provinces which were the the having only that of 2 upon a pair of which railed only They fay theres little appearance that the States will put in execution their of equipping 20 Men of War for the of their Com there being only two as a Ship of 72 Guns to Convoy the and and another of 5o to Convoy bound to We have Advice that there happen ed a great betwixt the Czar of and i Admiral when on the Czar ha ying ordered a rich which had been to on board the Yacht which the ViceAdmiral acquainted him ought not to be but finding he could not be ordered the Captain of the Yacht to take it which the Czar took fo that he would be car ried back to England to make his complaints of it but being at laft informed of the of the no other but the King of Great Britains Flag mult be on board an he was well and his June We hear that the of the Principality of to intreat the Earl of Portland to honour them with his The Marriage be twixt and the Duke of Larrain is put off iT Divers arc hence lately to our Sea We are much to hear that the of Saxony hath his the free of kcr Religion in it not being in his pow er to alter the Laws an important matter without of the and contrary to We are from that the Burghers arc unwilling to to the till they have approved of their of as a new the Trial of who cheated and lay a Tax for paying the Elector of Brandenburg 100000 him in for his extraordinary charge during the They alfo to receive the Emperors Comm cr to to his Mandates concerning rie King of the and nn the other the Envoys of and on their receiving frid Con the Minders of Ci I to tue fe to to Act thr Lave ordered the Burghers to afix e Tle led tl r t ng were in a ry t turn Roman who being bred a Roman Cit to nuke pro or The Sieur aged is dead in on the account of at Pont in We hear that it hath been proposed in the Congregation de at to allow Money to the and that are to leave and that as if re of Book would be approved by the June We have Advice from That 3 French Ship there from Algiers with and fome redeemed in that Neit of and carries or abundance of pie every We Genia of tlie Tint the e de arrived at th 15th in his Way to Letters The People in the Fort for a and that they to contribute towards Charge of the let this but on of this being the aft They That their Fleet is Year arrived lately from well as who make their hither every That the of the new Convert ex coeds all that has been of it in any of the Papers that the anil Convents in with them and who are in the f I their are accounted mere happy than the i who arc to continual and to wander in De I where have nothing to Such of them as arc cone lately Gad for being pursued for their or lia le to be i forced to go to Mais which they look upon to be more dreadful than Death and therefore Trey are rather to if it that they haven left them than return own The fame That is an extreme throughout the whole Kingdom of except at and and fome other being ruind partly by the heavy and part ly by the Rigour of and that there is a great in the for want of They add That an Oath is im upon all the and Captains of Ships in the French not export any of 11 new Conversy aggravates their Mi and renders their very and abie that they are forced to give all to any of Ships or that wiil help to convey them out of their own That their thinking the Lay not fevere enough in taxing have thereupon in in
