Folio 147. From Colt. Though the 'projects at Vienna are admirable, Phillis's charms...

Folio 147. From Colt. Though the 'projects at Vienna are admirable, Phillis's charms will not keep Phylander at home', [a veiled reference to the Elector and his mistress] yet the Saxon troops will not be joined by those of the circle [of Franconia] 'after so publick an affront in refusing passage to the Saxons'. If P[rince] Louis and the margrave of Bayreuth are judged to be the promoters of that state of affairs, he rather thinks it originates with the bishop of Bamberg [Marquard Sebastian Schenk von Staufenberg] and the Danish envoy at Nuremberg. Clary has still not arrived and he, Colt, wonders why the ministers at Vienna failed to charge [Christopher Dietrich] Bose [Saxon privy councillor] with the regulation of all things ([such] as the ratification)'. The Elector is 'ambitious of glory' and takes it ill that some have spread the news that he will not go into the field himself. Colt, however, is confident that he will see to it that some great action is undertaken but doubts he will 'committ the command' so absolutely. Hopes 'this day' to have his orders about the money [i.e. subsidies] and the ratification and to have finished all his business by the time of the Leipzig fair and then to leave his credentials, as the Danish envoy did, to await his return. PS.: With reference to Schweinfurt's remark to Stepney concerning Colt's sojourn to Hanover (see f.145, ante), comments at length on Hanoverian attempts [?by Grote, at Vienna] to cause Stepney to dissuade him, Colt, from making the compliments to the new Elector. He complained about it to Blathwayt. Rejoices over the fact that margrave Louis of Baden 'rests' on the Rhine, 'but let them not flatter themselves at Vienna that the Saxons will join with the troopes of the cercles, for the Elector will most certainly march with the troopes'.

Date and Place: 1693 Apr 7/17 Dresden