Folio 152v. To [Trenchard]. Cool reaction by the elector to Mme Schöning's 'applications'...

Folio 152v. To [Trenchard]. Cool reaction by the elector to Mme Schöning's 'applications' to him concerning her husband's liberty, which, Stepney thinks, is 'no bad omen' for the electors 'indifference for that person'. - The elector is growing impatient about Boineburg's continued non-arrival. He, Stepney, has therefore written to Bruynincx to urge the Vienna ministers to send him as soon as possible. Boineburg's absence is hampering Ham and himself who might otherwise make considerable progress while the elector is in tolerably good humour. - A difference has arisen between the troops of Saxony and those of Hessen, about winter quarters first allocated to the latter in the county of Hanau but assigned since to the Saxons. Now there seems to be no room and convenience there for the subsistence of both. Four regiments and one battalion of Saxons have marched towards the Thuringia woods, to 'alarm the circles' into procuring provisions and both the circles and the imperial court into lodging them elsewhere in the neighbourhood if they should require their assistance in case of French incursions during the winter. On October 15/25, he had his first audience with countess Rochlitz, which proved rather successful, his 'insinuations' about continuation of the King's bounty being found very 'acceptable'. Also met her mother '(who is a woman of intrigue and directs the daughter in every stepp she makes, & those arts to be used in preserving as well as acquiring an affection)'. - Asks for the reconsideration of the titles under which he acts: the terms 'commissary or deputy' are 'not rightly comprehended' by the Saxons, thus he feels himself looked upon as an 'amphibious creature'. Both Ham and Boineburg are envoys extraordinary. Whilst negotiations are in progress, he is content to live as a 'gentleman' with his colleagues, but when it comes to the signing of the treaty, his character and title may be of much more significance.

Date and Place: 1693 Oct 17/27 Dresden