Folio 236: Jefferyes to De la Faye. Major General Lacy has had great success. He...

Folio 236: Jefferyes to De la Faye. Major General Lacy has had great success. He disembarked his troops numbering 2400 men near Grenaa and began to march towards the iron mines which they were ordered to ruin because they were known to be the best in the realm. The Swedes at the approach of the Russians burnt down their warehouses on the shore, full of all sorts of war munitions, retired next to a different position from where Lacy found no resistance until he arrived at the mines, where he found a company of 1000 men in battle order. He attacked them on 3 sides with much valour, until the Swedes were obliged to yield and flee by the highway to Uppsala. The Swedes lost many, but the Russians lost only 3 killed and a few wounded. General Lacy, having defeated the enemy, came to the mines and ruined them; also a very pretty market-town situated in the vicinity of the mines, after which they re-embarked, en route to Gavle. Apraxin similarly destroyed Sudertellie and then left for Norrkoping. The enclosed letters speak of peace between the Swedes and Russians in a confident manner and say amongst other things that Osterman had an audience with the queen of Sweden on 18 July, that Count Gyllenborg came to Aland to ask for a passport for his brother who was ordered to return to the Congress; there should be less doubt about a peace, than about the dismay in Sweden, so great and all prevailing that the poor peasants ruined by the Russians were coming daily to Stockholm in throngs to demand the conclusion of a peace from the queen. Lillienstadt had asked for protection for two of his lands, one of which is a quarter league from Stockholm. French. Account of the misfortunes of English merchant ships. Dated Revel, 17 Aug 1719. English.