Hamburg, the 27 of December S. V.
These three or four dayes, there has been a report here;
yet without ground, as if our Sindicus residing for this City
in London should be murthered there by a disguised
person in his own house; but whether it be true, and who
these murderers may be is, yet unknown: The English
letters, by whom the consirmation there of was expected,
being neither on Saturday last, nor today come on.
No Post came hither this week from England; but from
Amsterdam, they write that yon have been doing great
matters, proclaiming the Lord General, Lord Protector
of England, Scotland, and Ireland; that the Parliament
is dissolved, and that you are absolutely concluding peace
with them. The reporters speak not of any Tumults here-upon
among you, but that all is quiet; which (if true)
shews the rate temper of your people, and a special hand
of God carrying on affairs, that so great changes should
be without blood or distraction.
This last week here passed through this City an Envoye
from the Duke of Curland to the Parliament, by land towards
Dunkirke. No farther news concerning the Lord
Ambassadour Whitlock; save that the very same day that
the Post came from Stockholm, the Ambassadour was to
be at Court at Vpsahla, where eminent preparations were
made for his reception.
From Dalkeith, December 31.
There is not much hath come to my knowledge since
the last. There is a ship of arms form Holland certainly
landed about Loqukaher in the Highlands: with which
a ship of Captain Bressies (which lay about the Lewis for
trade) had some change of Ordnance, but not having men
to board her, durst not go forward, and the next day, the
Highlanders put more men on board the Hollander. One
Man of war would have cleared these Coasts, and prevented
their passage: this was the ground of the enemies motion,
which as I hunted in my last, was supposed to bend
Northwards towards Aberdeen; but it was to fetch these