Folio 179v cont on 182. To Cresset. Thanks him for letter of Jan 21/31. - [Hans Kaspar...

Folio 179v cont on 182. To Cresset. Thanks him for letter of Jan 21/31. - [Hans Kaspar baron] Bothmer, envoy extraordinary of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle to Vienna, is leaving his post and is to be succeeded by [Bodovon] Oberg 'who passes for a man of more business'. - Court gossip. - Enlarges on margrave Louis's continued 'aversion' to the ninth electorate. Whilst he is in England he may be 'moderate in his discourse of it but his old principles will return when he gets into bad company (I mean the disaffected princes in the circles who are great opposers)'. - The story circulating about a peace project drawn up by the margrave for submission to the King is as ridiculous as another spread about, according to which the King had granted the margrave £150,000 subsidies for the two circles [Franconia and Swabia]. Recalls that when he met the margrave [last year], the latter had indeed proposed that 'something might be given them, considering the last expences they are att', but adds that 'he was never instructed to give him hopes': the sum named is too large and almost the double of what England gives to Savoy which certainly deserves more. Concludes that there is 'self interest' at the bottom of the second story the elector hopes thereby to claim higher subsidies from England, 'but if this be his aim he may be mistaken'.

Date and Place: 1694 Jan 26/Feb 5 Dresden