Numb. 318.
Mercurius Politicus,
COMPRISING
The sum of Foreine Intelligence, with
the Affairs now on Foot in the three Nations
OF
ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, & IRELAND.
For Information of the People.
------ It à vertere Seria}Horat. De
Ar. Poet.
From Thursday July 10: to Thursday July 17. 1656.
Whitehall, July 10.
THis day the full Ratification of the Treaty
with Portugall was presented to his Highness.
There came severall Letters which gave an Account
of a great Defeat given to one of the Bodies
of the French Army, which was commanded
by the Marshall de la Ferte, before the City of Valechienne:
intimating more over, that it was to the French a most
unhappy Enterprise from the very beginning, having lost many
Men, and severall considerable Commanders during the
siege: but the conclusion proved fatall, a body of 11000 having