The King of Poland Journey and Pages in a Quagmire Incident
The Amsterdam Gazette and other reports note the King of Poland arriving on July 5 and departing for Warsaw, while a peasant near Gorlitz blocked a coach to protect his field. Royal pages intervened, the King ordered restraint, paid the peasant, and allowed the road to resume. Various foreign tidings describe Vienna gifts to the Arch Duchess, Bolingbroke in Paris, and trade and alliance deliberations amid ongoing European flux.