From Stode, Dec. 5. S. N.
Lieutenant General Spork hath defeated a Swedish Convoye,
taking from them 200 Carrs and 400 draught - horse,
which came from Anclam, and intended for Stettin; 500
Swedish horse and 100 Dragoons are sent (by reason of scantness
of provision) to the Bishoprick of Bremen, Monsieur
Otto Kragge, and Giffle Bouckwale, Senators, the King of
Denmark his Ambassadors to the States General, art at Lubeck,
and will stay a while there, having intelligence that
200 Swedish horse laie in wait for them; these intend to go
toward the Hague, through the Territories of the Duke of
Luneburg.
The Imperial, Polnish and Brandenburghish forces, having
performed their exploit in Funen, are said to be transported
back again to their old Quarters in Holstein and Jutland, under
the command of the Brandenburgship General Major
Quast, there being enough in Funen, to keep the Island, since
the Swedes are not like to trouble it again in haste.
Because we would not be impartial in relating the State of
Affairs betwixt Sweden and Denmark, take the following
Accounts, as they came from the hands of the several parties,
The Danish Account of the Battel fought in Funen with the
Swedes, in which the Danes and their Confederates bad
the Victory; And a List of the prisoners sent from Newburgh,
by Field-Marshal Ebersteen, and another publick
Minister of the King of Denmark, on the 18 of November.
This is to certifie your Excellency, That two days ago,
the forces being joyned with Field-Marshal Shack, we
advanced toward the Swedes about Newburgh, who presented
themselves in full battalia before the little Passage and
Woods hard by Newburgh; but I fell with my army on
the enemies in their advantage, and made the first onset, leading