The Ellis Correspondance (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 Excerpt: ...and to crave aid of men or money, or both, for the preservation of those provinces which seem now to be threatened. 2d October, 1686. I hope you will pardon my using another hand, being in some more Of Denmark. than ordinary hurry upon the Court's first coming, though I am always and every where, Sir, Your most obedient servant, O. W. Mr. Ellis. LXIII. Foreign news.--Diplomatic changes.--Disturbance at Rotterdam, &c. Whitehall, 22d Oct. 1686. We have very little worth the troubling you with, though it be post day. We please ourselves here with reasoning about the successes of the Duke of Lorraine in Hungary and of the King of Poland towards the Black Sea, without any certainty of the one or the other. Some will have it that we are to expect little farther actions, and that this winter may go near to settle a peace; upon what grounds I cannot guess. We have had a flying report these two days, as if some thousands of French troops were in march towards the Rhine, to damp all the little designs that may be formed in virtue of the league of Ausbourg; and that the Imperial Minister in the French Court, and the Spanish one, had but sour answers, the one about the Fort at Huningen, the other about the poteaux. Sir William Trumbull being arrived, we have no minister in France; but Mr. Skelton is a preparing to go and fill up the post, and so is Sir William Trumbull that of Constantinople, and Marquis d'Albyville to the Hague. A scuffle that happened at Rotterdam in seizing Sir Robert Peyton, who braved the loyal English there, as Mr. Skelton embarked for England, maketh much noise; the rabble Sir Robert Peyton, Bart., had been attainted by Act of Parliament, and was therefore in banishment in Holland. He joined the Prince of Orange shortly before the Revolution...