Port of Ancona Declared Free Port for Foreign Ships
Rome reports an edict of Cardinal Camerlengo, dated 16th instant, declaring Ancona a free port for foreign ships with only a moderate Anchorage duty to share Adriatic trade. News from Vienna notes Hungary politics, Ottoman tensions, and military movements in Moldavia. Copenhagen and Hamburg dispatches cover naval commands and court appointments, while Paris discusses plans against Barbary corsairs and the West Indies flotilla. Additional items mention religious tensions in Berlin and Catholic clergy appeals to the pope amid Archbishop of Salzburg actions.