But the mufti and all the other great officers were averse to the design, and the vizier fell a sacrifice to their resentment.
Louis continued to broil the kingdom of Poland by means of the cardinal-primate.

The young king of Sweden advanced to Lissou, where he defeated Augustus.

Then he took possession of Cracow, and raised contributions; nor could he be persuaded to retreat, although the Muscovites and Lithuanians had ravaged Livonia, and even made an irruption into Sweden.
FRUITLESS EXPEDITION TO CADIZ.
The operations of the combined squadrons at sea did not fully answer the expectation of the public.

On the twelfth day of May, sir John Munden sailed with twelve ships to intercept a French squadron appointed as a convoy to a new viceroy of Mexico, from Corunna to the West Indies.

On the twenty-eighth day of the month, he chased fourteen sail of French ships into Corunna.
Then he called a council of war, in which it was agreed that as the place was strongly fortified, and by the intelligence they had received, it appeared that seventeen of the enemy's ships of war rode at anchor in the harbour, it would be expedient for them to follow the latter part of their instructions, by which they were directed to cruise in soundings for the protection of the trade.