Vast European intrigues and robberies in early autumn report
A broad dispatch recounts Court of Versailles remarks on treaty ratification conditions, Czars and Tartars movements, Venetian subsidies, Traun assembling Croatian troops, and royal visits to the Hague. It notes Prince Eugene of Savoy at 73, wealth transfers to the poor, and Dutch naval arrangements. Brazilian diamonds, a Newport gold vein, and Vienna dispatches on peace efforts appear among scattered items.