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Foreign News and Court Notices From Genoa to Hanover
The Daily Courant reports on royal pageantry with 500 troopers in a mock fight near St Wingdelain, new sea actions against Barbary corsairs, and the appointment of Count Figarllo as Royal Chamber president. It notes Don John Thomas Peralta arriving as secretary of state and war, the Bashaw of Graund Cairo lodging in Trieste, and Cardinal Ottoboni preparing for a sacred college entertainment. It records a Neapolitan execution, nun Jesuit disputes in Barletta, and papal mediation that absolves the nuns for leaving their convent. Genoa reports eight gentlemen named to greet Count de Saftago, viceroy of Sicily, Parma notes dowry mediation, and coffee prices easing in Cairo. Bertimi provides military reviews near Königsberg, and Prussia extends privileges to settlers in Pomerania. Hanover reports Prince Frederick in good health, Pletenberg’s arrival, Polish parliamentary preparations, and the Duke of Courland’s stance at Dantzick.