Janr: 26: 1716
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The London-Post.

From Saturday Jan. 14 to Saturday January 21. 1716 . To be continued Weekly.

LTTERS from Vienna of
the 8th advise, that the Trea-
ty with the Venetians is at
last concluded, except a se-
eret Article or two about
verona, which is to be ad-
justed by it self. The Trea-
ty is an Allyance offensive
[..] defensive; to that the Emperor will be ob-
tained to assist the Venetians with all his Forces,
[..] cafe the Turks carry on the war.

All our Advices from Levant speak of
the prodigious Preparations of war which the
Turks make in all their Ports, which not only
alarms the Venetians, but all the Italian Prin-
[..] tes especially the Pope, and the King of Sicily
and we do not see that any of the rest of them
can make any great resistance if the Turks
should attack them with a considerable Force

They talk of renewing the Treaty at Bruns-
wick, for accommodating the difference among
the Northern Princes, but those Things are to
dilatory, that little Good is to be expected
from them.

They write from Dantzick of the 18th of
December, that the Czar of Muscovy has been
at the point of death, which has put all things
on that side, to a stand, The Saxon Forces in
found [..] with so
much vigour, not withstanding the [..] of the
season, that unless the Turks openly appear to
their assistance, it is thought they Will be ob-
liged to lay down their Arms, and Submit not-
withstanding their great numbers. They are
at present retired to Volhinta; but the Saxons
having make themselves Masters of the strong
City of zamosk, which they took by surprize,
it is thought they would retire farther.

They write from Copenhagen, that the
Swedes in S honen had formed a design to march
over the Sound upon the Ice with 12000 Men,
which has put them into a great consternation,
and several thousand Men are Continually em-
ployed to break the Ice, but it freezes with
such violence, that it is impossible to keep it
open; however the King being arrived, and
all the Troops drawn together that were at
hand, People begin to be more easie.

They write from Cologn. that the extremity
of the Cold has destroyed a world of people in
the lower Germany, and which is worse, the
Wolves appear in great Troops, and that so
boldly, that they come even to the Gates of
that City, and have destroyed a great many
people an that Country.

Since our last, we have two Mails from Hol-
land; how they came over, God knows, they
bring Letters from the Hague of the 27th and
21st, with an account that the states General,
notwithstanding the just exceptions they had
against the Proceedings of the Elector of Co-
logn, and upon which they had resolved not to
evacuate the Citadel of Liege and the Castle of
Huy, and notwithstanding their resolution not
to consent to the Grant made by the Emperor
to the Elector Palatine of the Dutchy of Lim-
bourgh, which as they alledged, was directly
contrary to, and inconsistent with the Bar-
rier Treaty, yet that they have not thought fit
to delay the Ratifications of the said Treaty
but that the several Provinces having [..]
their consent to the said Treaty, the Ratificati-
ons have been dispatch'd to Antwerp to be
exchag'd in due Form.

These Letters add that the Elector of Cologn
has made some proposals to the States to mol
lify them a little as to the affront offer'd them
at Bodm, and for the evacuation of the Citadel
of Liege, has offer'd to abate that Article, which
obliges the States to demolish a new Fort ere-
cted night against Maestrick, which the States
were very loth to part with, and which it is
believed they will now be very well pleased
with, so that it is hoped those Matters may be
amicably ended.

They wait with great impatience for the next
Letters from Copenhagen, where it is expected
the Sweedes should make some very desperate
attempt; and as they say, that the Sound is so
frozen that even cannon may be drawn over
it, it is not doubted but the King of Sweeden
[..] if
he has troops enough [..] hand, which it is said
he has; they are also very unekly on that dis-
count on the Main Land, not doubting but
that the Swedes will ravage Just and, if possi-
ble. The Danish army being all it Romeren,
they have but very few Troop at Copenha-
gen, and which is worse, their Fleet has not
been able to clear itself of the Ice, for but that
it may be burnt easily, as if it lay in a River.

Letter from Vienna of the [..] , that
the Preparation for War with the Turks go
on as much as ever, notwithstanding in Hill re-
mains doubtful whether that War will be en-
tred upon or not. The Emperor has shewn
great dissatisfaction at the Proceedings in Po-
merania; and they talk of new Alliances to be
entred into for the re-instating the Swedes in
them German Dominions: But chose Things
seem to be too late to mention now, and the
Proceedings of that kind will be very much in-
fluenc'd by the Life or Death of the Czar of
Muscow, who they continue to say, lies very ill
at Petersburgh, and not likely to recover.

Several Dutch Merchant ships homeward
bound are come into our Ports, having attempt-
ed, but in vain, and with great hazard to get
into their Ports, which are now entirely block'd
up with Ice some of them are gone into Har-
wich, and other are gone into the Humber.

Letters from Rome give long Accounts of
the Joy and the Feasts that have been made by
the Families concern'd on account of the pope
ha-