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European News Digest from Cadiz to Vienna
An Arrived-one British Packet brings Holland and Flanders mails from Cadiz. Reports from Lima suggest vast treasure moves and goods sell well in Old Spain. France Britain and Holland ambassadors meet the King at Leon. Spain orders levies and cavalry remounting, with talks of a 25 000 to 30 000 man camp in Offinay. Cadiz to build six more ships, new 76 gun ship Aquila. Dantzic notes plots for succession in Poland. Vienna reports Turkish preparations, Nordic peace efforts, and fleets being readied. Stockholm hints at a spring trip to Casfell and possible alliance with Russia. Denmark Swedish campaigns and Hanover allies mobilize. Warsaw plans to ingratiate with Polish grandees. Cadiz courier confirms Galions arrival. Simzendorf delaying until treaty ready. Carpenters hired for shipbuilding, corrections to serve on Galley crews. Vienna notes subsidies from Spain awaited to satisfy Empire princes.