CLIX. Marlborough au Grand-Pensionnaire

London, Feb. 17t: 1706.

Sir, | 10 Ï have ‘not had any from you since my last, but the jealousies of the King of Sweedens intentions to disturb the Empire encreasing, and-the apprehensions of the Court

of Vienna are so great, as Î find by my letters from thence, as well as by what Comte Gallas:(*} has com

(*) Envoyé de l’Empereur à Londres. ui TA

municated to mé; that [ cañt help being uneäsy ;:1notwithstanding the continuall assurances the Elector. of. Hanover gives us, ‘that that Prince will do nothing to the préjudice of the Grand Alliance, and therfore if you thought it might be: of any advantage to the Publick, I shou’d not serupel the trouble of a jorny as far as Saxony (*), to waite on the King, and indeavour , if need be, to sett him right, or at least to penetrate his design, that we may take the justest measures we can, not to be surprised: = J have mention’d this to nobody here, neïther ‘will I til I have your opinion, which I pray you will send me bÿ the first post, without taking notice of it t0 any with you, unless it be such-as you can intierly confide in (+). — If 1 go, I designe to stay three or four days at the Hague,‘ and then take post for Saxony, and to return in like maner to the Hague before [ 90 to the army. — The little time 1 may stay, will not give me leave: to think of making a Treaty, so that TI shall only assure the King of Her Maj and the States friendshipe and estime, and of their readyness to concur with him in every thing that may be for the mutuall benefitt and advantage of etch other. — I am with truth,