Mante, to joyn with the Marshall of Turenne, who will
be 25000 strong, when the rest of the Forces are come up
to joyn with him.
From Brussels the 9. of August.
Here is little news to write, by reason the Siege before
Arras doth still continue in the same condition as was
mentioned in my last. The fifth of this moneth at night
Christina queen of Sweden arrived at Antwerp, in mans
Apparel, coming there incognito with a small company,
her Train arriving there the next day, at which time shee
was drest in Womans cloaths, and was going abroad in
the Coach of Don Balthazar Mercader, Governor of that
City. This Queen hath fild all these parts with variety
of discourse; and most extoll her above the rest of her
Sexe for vertue and learning. From hence she goeth to
the Spaw: She is lodged at one Seigneur Garcia de Guiano,
a Portuguese; and so likewise at Hamburgh she lodged at
a Portuguese Jews house. She hath the Earl of Donau,
of Steinbergern, and the Baron of Soop in her company;
travelling all incognito, as they did in the Country of Denmark
and Holstein. Here is a report as if a party of Rocroy
had surprised an express which was going from Sedan
to Paris sent by the Cardinal with Letters to the Prince of
Conti and the Duke of Guise, which have been since sent
with a safe Guard to the Camp before Arras, and consigned
to the Earl of Fuensaldagne, who having perused
all the Pacquets, should have said with great content, That
that booty was worth to him more then a great summ of
Money: for, he had thereby discovered very great secrets,
chiefly in the Pacquets of the Duke of Guise, which made
mention of the Design and enterprise of his Navall Fleet
at Toulon in Provence. The Spaniards are said to be masters
of all the Outworks of Arras, and that the Marshall
of Turenne doth seem to be resolved to fight them as they
lie in their Trenches.
From Roterdam August 3.
The Lords States of Holland and West-Friesland are