Folio 138. To Paget. He has urged Shrewsbury and Blathwayt to send Lexington to Vienna...

Folio 138. To Paget. He has urged Shrewsbury and Blathwayt to send Lexington to Vienna 'out of hand'. Speculates, on the basis of certain correspondence received by him, on the disposition of the Porte to treat of peace in the face of a possible, and more determined, intervention by Poland. Has it from one source that Vienna is planning to send counts [Charles Ernest] Waldstein and [Hermann Jacob] Czernin as well as [the cavaliere] Alessandro Zeno [Zen], Venetian ambassador at Vienna, to a peace congress at Strij. No news of Heemskerck having reached Belgrade as yet. - His business at Dresden is unfinished due to the 'fatality' of the elector's death. Of his brother and successor Frederick Augustus, he 'cannot say much good'. The body of countess Rochlitz has been 'dug up and used with as much barbarity as any is practis'd in the countries where you are'. The new elector is too busy to think of the campaign and has put his father-in-law, the margrave [Ernest Christian] of Bayreuth in charge of the army with count [Henry VI] Reuss, promoted 'Feld-zeugmeister' [i.e. general of artillery] as his deputy. Schöning will, after all, be released, but the new elector has given an undertaking not to employ him in any military or civilian capacity. - Continues his chronicle of events in England, giving detailed account of changes in the peerage, in the treasury - Montague having been appointed under-treasurer and chancellor of the exchequer - and in the admiralty. - Margrave Louis of Baden had ordered a rendez-vous of all confederate troops at Heilbronn on May 7/17, but without the Saxons as yet. No surprise attack by the French is anticipated. [First para interspersed with cipher].

Date and Place: 1694 May 22 O.S. Dresden