my Lord Lockhart is returned from Paris, but is daily expected.
All things are through his vigilancie, in good order
both here and at Dunkirk.
From Lubeck, Oct. 18.
Here is arrived a Swedish Major, by name Muller, who
was in the Sound on Sunday last, and he relateth that the
Island Amack was by force taken by the Swedish on Friday
last toward the Evening; the houses in that Island are for the
most part burnt down to ashes, which fire action was first began
by the Danish themselves who destroyed all the Cattel
likewise, and brought their Carkasses to the Town. They
talk of a general assault, made upon Coppenhagen, in which
Count James de la Gardie is said to be slain, but there is no
ground for this report. Nine men of war are joyned with
the Swedish Fleet, which is said to consist now of 46 men of
war.
From Koningsberg, Octob. 15.
Colonel Hill had a design against the Elbinger Sconce, distant
half a league from the City, called the Lame-Hound,
intending to surprize it, to cut off from the Swedish the passage
which leads to the Fresh-Haff, and to keep them from
stragling abroad in Prussia, to which end he went by water
with 4 or 5000 men, carrying with him necessarie warlike
instruments for a storme, of which the Swedish got intelligence
be times, and thereupon they put 200 men into the said
sconce.
Nevertheless the said Colonel came very near unto it. On
the 8 of October, where the storming ladders were laid,
and generally the men scaled so well that they had good success,
and after a short dispute took the sconce, in which all
were put to the sword, except the Lieutenant and 12 men
more. By meanes of the taking of this sconce, the Swedish
are hundred in their running abroad both by water and by
land. The siegers before Thoren are approached within Pistol
shot; the surrender of that place is expected very
shortly.
The news from Liesland is, that General Donglasse is gone