From Hamburgh, January 8.
By Letters from my Lord Ambassador Whitlock
from Upsahla of the 22 of December, S. V. I
understand his Lordships safe arrivall, and very
honourable Reception there, having been (to
use his Excellencies own expression) more then
is usually given to Extraordinary Ambassadors,
wherby the Queens Majesty is pleased to testify
her great respect to the Commonwealth of England.
By another Letter from thence of the 24
of December, S. V. information is come, That
on the next precedent day, his Lordship received
Audience by her Majesty with no less Honour
and Solemnity; but the particulars thereof were
then not known.
From Copenhagen, January 11. S. N
We understand here of the honorable Reception
of the English extraordinary Ambassador at
Upsahla, which is affirmed to have been extraordinary
for stateliness and solemnity. A Fleet
of som 80 Sail of Dutch Merchantmen, with one
Convoyer, being lately departed out of the
Sound, and intending homeward, on this side the
Scaw, met with an English Frigat coming from
Gottenburgh, who sent the Convoyer soundly batter'd
and basted, with a great many of the said
Fleet back again; and having taken som, brought
them up into Gottenburgh. This people, especially
the Dutch, are so madd thereat, that they say,
Gottenburgh ere loug will be a worse Pirates nest,
then ever Dunkirk war. This Court stands as yet
in expectation what the issue wil be of the Treaty
with England, not knowing whether they wilbe