Folio 178v. To [Hugh] Greg [English chargé d'affaires at Copenhagen]. Replies to...

Folio 178v. To [Hugh] Greg [English chargé d'affaires at Copenhagen]. Replies to three letters, the last dated Dec 1 [1693]. With regard to the treaty of Ratzeburg, the elector of Saxony has no reason to complain about the mediators, but if he has, he ought to havecomplained sooner. The King's guarantee will, however, not weaken Saxony's pretensions which the aulic council at Vienna has favoured with a mandatum restitutorium 'which, however, may have no more effect than the sentence they formerly gave, declaring the elector's right, as long as the dukes of Brunswick have the secrett of staving off the execution, and have a mind to hold fast their possession'. - Refers to 'an idle discourse.... scattered here & elsewhere in Germany' as if margrave Louis's voyage to England was to 'dispose' the King to peace. The elector seemed at first inclined to 'credit' [it] but was soon persuaded that there was Danish 'malice at the bottom of the story: an attempt to sow jealousyes among the allies'. - As to the French peace project promoted by Denmark, castigates the way the Danish government lend themselves to paying lip-service to France, particularly in Saxony where they are obviously trying to prevent the elector's succession to the Grand alliance. Deals at length with textual variants in certain articles of the project which he has seen and one of which may well be a reference to French support of the Stuart cause. - Does not believe that abbé [later cardinal, Vincenzo] Grimani [imperial plenipotentiary to Savoy] may propose to the Emperor a peace, 'at least a particular one for Savoy' as letters from Vienna seem to suggest since it was Grimani 'who first engaged HRH [i.e. the duke of Savoy] in this confederacy'.