LONDON GAZETTE, 29/12/1686-2/1/1687. A full and a half page report from Constantinople, written in 9 November 1686, vividly describing the chaotic situation in the Ottoman capital after the crashing defeats of 1686 (fall of Buda, Austrian full scale invasion in Hungary, fall of Morea etc). Political struggle, social unrest, military preparations, commercial and financial difficulties etc. Valuable source of information, written obviously from a European, most probably British, diplomat in Constantinople. In the meanwhile, in Hungary, the Court is preparing to move from Presburg back in Buda (after 150 years). Several other news.