Folio 147: Finch to Harrington, Yesterday Foreign Ministers paid court to the Czarina...

Folio 147: Finch to Harrington, Yesterday Foreign Ministers paid court to the Czarina who as it was St. Andrews day confirmed Knights of the Order. List of eleven composing the Council. Field Marshals Trubetskoi and Lacy, Prince Czerkasskoj, Count Golovkin, Prince Kurakin, Generals Vschakoff, Lewaschoff and Cernysev, the Procuror General Trubetskoj, Senator Naiyskin and Bestuzev, now elevated to former rank. Brother of last now at Dresden to deliver credentials in Poland will receive orders to return here immediately. If he is to be employed abroad my choice for him would be England. Counts Golovkin, Solme and Prince Czerbatov will be recalled. Account of departure of late Regent and family. Prince Lewis still here. Botta, Mardefeld and myself have visited him. He thinks he will stay long enough here to give them enough start not to catch up with them. The Chevalier Crepy whom I knew in Stockholm as aide to St. Severin, arrived as volunteer with the Swedes with answers from Count Lowenhaupt to those letters from Captain Diedron. Crepy says Lowenhaupt is about 24 English miles from Vyborg. People must wait and see whether Swedes may insist or recede from declaration to recover the ancient lustre of their crown, or if Czarina will make a voluntary cession of provinces which her father, Peter the Great, how ever long he lived would never have yielded one inch. Dolgorukov brothers Mushim Pusken all restored to favour. Appointments of `Chamlbellans and Ladies. Czarina still showing confident in and favour to de la Chetardie. Dated St Petersburg, 1 Dec 1741.