From Tripoli, Dec. 30.
The Robbers here have taken two Hamborough
ships and one from Enkhusen, on these three
ships are 77 Christians which are made slaves.
From Marienburgh, Jan. 28.
Our news are at this present of little moment,
we have had these two or three nights very great
frost, we doubt not but we shal have ere long some
guests in our Werder, whereby there will infallibly
be some news afforded from thence. Yet we
hope that they will not venture to assault us in
our strong holds; for truely we are very well provided
to receive them; some are of opinion, that
those 1600 Austrians which have been for a while
in Pomorellia, are resolved to assault the Host-Sconce
before they go into their quarters. But we
hope by Gods assistance that they will find it a
hard matter though they were yet twenty times
more then they are, and that most part of them
will come away with a bloody pate. Those of
Dantzick do call this Sconce Caput Malorum, and
it might very well happen that those of Austria
may call it, Caput omnium malorum, by reason that
their entertainment before it, may prove far
worse then they apprehend or imagine.
From the Cossacks we had two or three days
ago true news, that they after the death of their
chief Commander, had chosen his Son under the
Wardship and protection of the Lord Wychowski