to both parties, the prosecution whereof might tend
both to the ruine of the one and the other.
Our opinion here is, that an agreement must be, because
the Hollanders by whose means we have hitherto subsisted,
are resolved upon the point, have withdrawn their ships
from before Landscrown, so that the Swedish ships are lest
at liberty, and all hostility in the Zound is at an end.
The Lord Morstein, Ambassador of Poland, having taken
his leave of the King, and his Court, is embarked to return
into Poland in a Hollands man of War, which is convoy
to divers Merchant men of Holland, that are going the
same way.
From Lubeck, March 23.
The Count of Rantzow, and the Baron of Al[unr]field are
nominated to go and confer with the Deputies of the
Duke of Holstein, touching those demands that have bin
made by the King of Denmark, which are these: That the
said Duke should demolish the Fortifications of Tonningen,
and settle his residence at Gottorp: That he should surrender
the jurisdiction of Swabsted: That he should receive from
his Majesty of Denmark the investiture of the Dutchy of
Sleswick: That he should renounce the Allyance made with
the King of Sweden, and renew that which his Predecessors
have always kept with the Crown of Denmark; and lastly,
that he should put all things into the same condition that
they were before the Treaty of Rotskield, and if he faile
herein, his Majestry declares, that he is resolved to fall upon
the Fortress of Tonningen, the Avenues whereof, are already
possest with his Troops which were quartered at Eydersted,
and General Shack hath order to joyne with those
which are embodied about Rensburg.
The Swedish Garrison which held Warnemund, and
which the Country was fain along time to pay contribution
to, hath at length bin forced to render it self at discretion,
to the Emperors forces, commanded by Prince Palatine Rupert,
which will be some prejudice to the Swedes at Wismar.