Fust Arrived From Paris and Italian Siege News
Letters from Paris Sept 17 report Mirandola surrendered with 1800 garrison casualties by disease and desertion. Mantua suffers mortality. 2000 inhabitants urged to take arms. Siege may start in 15-16 days with 40,000 Spanish troops. Rhine reports 30,000 Imperialists across toward Mentz. Premblay burned. Duke and Duchess of Dorset sail to Ireland. plans for Holland voyage. Royal movements include King’s return to St James’s, Walpole at the Hague, and new Imperial quotas enforcement. Russian auxiliaries halted in Bohemia. fifteen thousand Czarina orders ready for Polarid.