Folio 185: Jefferyes to Craggs. Celebration of the Czar's 47th birthday. He conferred...

Folio 185: Jefferyes to Craggs. Celebration of the Czar's 47th birthday. He conferred the Order of St. Andrew on Baron Safirov. During the entertainment satisfactory news brought from the Revel squadron cruising in the Baltic, of an engagement between 6 Russian men-of-war and three Swedish ships, in all 88 cannon, which after 4 to 5 hours fighting were taken to Revel, with 347 officers and men made prisoners-of-war. Then the Czar saw launched a ship of 64 guns built by an English shipwright. Conversation between the Czar and several old men who dislike St.Petersburg greatly. He was made aware how they would set fire to it and his fleet as soon as he died, so that they could return to their beloved Moscow. Colonel Hennings is on his way to the chief mines in Germany, England and France and to others, including those of HM at the Harz, in order to bribe people into the Czar's service. He goes under a borrowed name in order to conceal his plans. Weber, the resident, was embarrassed by titles lacking on a letter to the Czar, but they thought better of it and sent him to deliver it at Kronslot. Metch, the Prussian minister, was brought up to Revel en route from Sweden to Konigsberg and then to here, under suspicion but is now at Kronslot with the Czar. Tolstoy is to leave here for Berlin as ambassador extraordinary. Dated StPetersburg, 5 June 1719.