Diplomacy and troop shifts amid European power talk
Vienna reports the Quadruple Alliance prompts Spaniards to withdraw troops from Porto Longone and place Swiss forces in Tuscany. Proposals to Emperor include renunciation of the Spanish monarchy, dynastic marriages, and reshaping Tuscany and Naples. Spain may claim Pisa Sienna and Parma as fiefs, with shifts in crowns and neutrality during wars. Madrid notes Plenipotentiaries at Cambray and ships being built for spring, while Paris peers at Cambray talks and ministerial reshuffles. Reports from Dantzick on Czarist forces in Persia seen as weakened after campaigns.