This article was the subject of the late Negotiations. The resolution of the Imperial court to admit of no deviation from the treaty of Quadruple alliance; and that of the court of _Spain_ never to consent to any alteration in the treaty of _Seville_, occasion’d the preparations for war all the last summer, but ended in preparations offensive and defensive, and were kept from breaking into action by the thread of negotiation; and the opening of this scene is reserved for the year we are now entering upon; _but hitherto Things remain in the same situation_, Jan. 30. _Constantinople._ Since the great revolution made here by the Janizaries in cutting to pieces the late Vizier, _Capigi Aga_, Capt. _Bashaw_, and _Mufti_, &c., and afterwards deposing Sultan _Achmet_, and raising the new Sultan (whose father was depos’d in 1703) to the throne; there has been no settled government. For upon divers pretences these tumultuous rebels were frequently up in arms, demanding several new regulations; particularly the promoting of their favourites, and the removal or death of those who were obnoxious to ’em. All which was comply’d with in order to appease them: But this procedure not satisfying them, and they still continuing mutinous, the Grand Segnior under pretence of holding a general council, got the chief of ’em into his palace, cut ’em all off with their servants; and about 7000 of their followers were strangled, to the great joy of this city; these rebellious people grew so insolent, as to tax families what sums they pleas’d, and even to plunder in the street: But now every thing is reduc’d to the old _Ottoman_ rules of government. _Moscow, Jan. 8._ Advices from Derbent say, that the princes of Georgia passed that place, in their way home much pleased with the honours they have received from this court, and that one of them, who lives near mount Arrarat, had promis’d to send the Empress a relique of _Noah’s Ark_. _Venice._ ’Tis currently reported that this republick will equip a squadron of twenty Ships of war, to put to sea early next spring, to watch the motions of the Turks. _Vienna, Jan. 20._ Our hopes of an accommodation with _Spain_ encrease daily. _Paris._ New proposals of accommodation are negotiating with _Spain_ and the Emperor; and ’tis thought with a fair prospect of success. _Swisserland, Bern._ Provision is making in all the protestant cantons for the reception of a great number of Waldenses, who are depriv’d of their liberties and drove from their habitations, by their sovereign the duke of _Savoy_. _Vienna._ There are privately handed about here copies of the _Ultimatum_ (or last proposals) of the allies of _Seville_, as transmitted hither from _Paris_; the substance of which is as follows.