are by this tempestuous weather hindred of setting at Sea
again; therefore the Infantry shall be imbarqued into other
Ships.
The last Letters from Barcelona advise us, that they are
daily closer and closer shut up: the great Guns and Morter pieces
which were now brought under Saint Anthonies
Bulwark. Don John de Austria to encourage his Souldiers,
went daily from one quarter of his Leaguer to another,
shewing his great liberality.
Venice the 29 ditto.
By the Ship St Peter (come from Candie in 16 days
time) we are advised of our Governors arivement at Candia
again, having given some Months pay to his Soldiers:
Gilles de Hase, hath done a good exploit on the Turks; a
good many of them slain, and the rest forced to retreat under
the Walls of new Candia.
From the River Donau, January 1: 1652.
They write from Dalmatia, that the Turks have many
Soldiers out of their Garrisons taken, and do send them to
Hungaria. And from Austria, that the Turks do increase
and Fortifie themselves in Hungarie, aud places adjacent,
and by one of their Bassaes have caused their Frontier places
to be visited, and fortified; whereby it is thought (seeing
they would not leave persecuting the Inhabitants by their
robbing, &c.) we must come in Arms against them.
From Italy January 9.
The Seigneurie of Venice doth great dilligence to strengthen
their Army at Zea: It continueth that the Merchants
will bring at Zea 24 Ships, each with 150 men, and that the
State should joyn 6 Gallies and 4 Barques to them, to pass
continually upon the Turks, whereby they will be forced
to put so many of their Armies to keep and defend their
Forts and Seacoasts (which are innumerous almost) that they
will be very much weakened. And by reason of the taking
in of Seala Novo, all the Suldaninnes goods are taken away,
and by our continual marching in Archipelago, the
Turks have suffered much dammage; the Janisaries and Spehies