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London 9ber the 3^d: 1692

Sir
The fforraigne Letters since my
last advise Rome the 18 vltimo on Sunday
Monsieur Rabineck had a long Audience of the
Pope & desired of his Holiness in the name of
ffrance: that hee would Intercede once more for a
Generall Peace in Xdome & if the Confederates
should dispute the same that hee would enter into
a League to disturbe the winter quarters in Italy
& the ffrench King his Master would send 5000 Men
vpon his Coast for that end & desires the Countrey
of Bulloign & fforrara for theire Quarters
as alsoe the Haven of Civita Vechia for his ffleet
& that hee might have Liberty of Exportacion
of 20000 Measures of Corne to all which: -
Innocent Answeared that hee had endeavoured
as much for a Peace as any Man & that hee
would trouble himselfe no further & that the
Haven of Civita Vechia was ffree for any
& that hee would give no winter quarters to
his Masters Troopes & that hee might stay or
goe as hee thinks fitt.
The Letters Yesterday from Scotland
Say that an English Vessell with ffrench: Collours came
lately before the Bass & made a Toast to the
Rebells who Immediately manned a Boate to -
goe on board but when they were gott about
halfe way they perceived theire mistake & made
with haste they could to gett back againe but the
great Guns of the Shipp reached theire Boate & Sunk
& the Rebells were all Drowned

{&c & with [success] must bee further raised but the this ffrench Artifice may bee easely discouered &
soe wee hope as soon avoyded = Mr Linesey Secretary to the late Earl: of Milford is seized
by the English att Ostend where he was veiwing matters in order to Imparte them to King James -
The Paris Gazett Sayes thay the Duke: of Savoy is againe relapsed & that the Physitians begin to
dispare of his recoverey but wee hope better things = It adds that the Duke: of Gourden who some}