Folio 42. To Shrewsbury. Thanks him for his letter of June 26 [?June 26/July 5]....

Folio 42. To Shrewsbury. Thanks him for his letter of June 26 [?June 26/July 5]. Still hopes to go to Flanders and report in person to the King on the present state of the court of Saxony. Ham is staying on at Dresden though he has had his ratifications for almostthree weeks. [Anton Wulff] Haxthausen, Danish envoy at Dresden, has concluded the renewal [treaty] of the treaty of mutual assistance in case of attacks, made last year. He, Stepney thinks it is a matter of 14,000 men and attaches no particular importance to it. He believes, however, that Haxthausen would have 'hooked in' separate articles relating to a [Danish] mediation, but did not have it his way. Intends to ask Gersdorff for a sight of the instrument as a 'friendly office', but doubts that it contains anything one might have reason to 'suspect'. Boineburg has had his audience de congé and may not return for two or three months, and then only to negotiate about winter quarters. He would have liked to have with him a letter from the elector to baron [Moriz Heinrich] Miltitz, Saxon 'ambassador' to the diet at Ratisbon, with 'orders not only to vote for the introduction, himself, but to promote it as much as he cou'd among the other members of the electorall colleage' but he, Stepney, believes that Boineburg 'has not been able to obtain this'. Ham will have a 'small' audience to deliver 'a very obliging letter' thanking the elector for sending two cavalry regiments according to the terms of the separate treaty made by Ham in February. The elector is now going to Wittenberg to receive homage. Schöning is expected to arrive at Dresden to-night or to-morrow. As to rumours about count Königsmarck's disappearance, refers to his letter to Blathwayt of July 10/20 (see f.40v, ante) [but no enclosure indicated here].

Date and Place: 1694 July 13/23 Dresden