Folio 185v. To Cresset. Acknowledges letters of Jan 28 and of Feb 1 and 4. - Carnival...

Folio 185v. To Cresset. Acknowledges letters of Jan 28 and of Feb 1 and 4. - Carnival at Dresden: no business will be done until Carlowitz's return from Vienna. - Refers to the 'storm' in which he found himself through the calumnies of an emissary at Vienna [Holtzbrinck]. The elector began to 'mortify' him, but 'mistook his man, for I took my turn to talk high & showed both him and his ministers that I was resolved neither to be their fool nor their sacrifice, which has forced them to use me better...'. - At Ratisbon, the electoral college 'do their best': the four who are for the ninth electorate 'have made an act whereby they declare that what has past [i.e. passed] hitherto shall not prejudice the three who dissent'. But before the Hanoverian electorate is recognised one must expect the question of the electorate of Bohemia to be settled, all this may take many months. - [Joseph Auguste] du Cros 'is like mercury betwixt the two houses of Brandenburg and Hanover'. - Encloses news from Vienna (not copied here). Count Windischgraetz 'is our friend' and count Kinsky 'is Sch[öning]'s enemy'. - General [Heino Heinrich] von Flemming may change [from Brandenburg] into Saxon service.

Date and Place: 1694 Feb 9/19 Dresden