Mails from France Holland and Asia arrive with word of snow
Fortnight snow delays road to Moscow and alarms over Tartars under the Czar. Reports from Ispahan note peace prospects with the Great Mogul and Queen Selim. Trade collapse amid robberies. European merchants taxed by Sultan Efreff. Tangier letters say Muley Abdallah preserves Fez and Morocco, aims at Ceuta and Melilla. A vast Brazilian diamond mine sighted. a colossal diamond shipped to Lisbon for assay. Madrid wintering at Seville. deaths of nobility noted. Genoa recounts naval rites and slave ransom talks. A long maritime list of ships and cargoes closes the dispatch.