Dublin Gazette in Dublin, Dublin

Zurich Alliance Talks with France Favored by Most Cantons

News from Frankfurt Wertheim and other cities report most Protestant cantons favor renewing the French alliance, agreeing on a conference at Arau to finalize the matter. Still, the Canton d Apenzel withhold. Dispatches note storms near Wertheim flooding the Tauber and Maine rivers, with property damage and deaths. The Countess Harrach narrowly escaped disaster on the Rhine. two sons were born aboard a vessel, later baptized in Le Loup. Berlin and Madrid items describe church fires and political tensions, while consuls hint at Jesuit-Jansenist frictions and ongoing Franco Swiss negotiations.