News Briefs From Lisbon to Constantinople July Dispatches
A long letter from the Pope to Portugal’s King is rejected. a 40 gun ship from Brazil arrives with tobacco and sugar and little gold. Updates say Madrid reports the Queen's pregnancy and a funeral procession in Granada recalls auto da fe. Letters from Stockholm note a Sweden Prussia treaty. In Zurich Italian monks are exposed for theft, while Peterburg hosts canal sights and fleet movements. Madrid tells of Algiers baptisms and a cleric to Solitude. the Inquisition executes and imprisons Jews. Constantinople awaits peace with Persia as Barbary pirates threaten.