BIB_ID
404203
Accession number
MA 4644.13
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1707 April 22.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.7 x 18.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace the Duke / of Leeds at his house / in Holborn / England / London." Holborn and London have been crossed through and replaced with "At Wimbledon."
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated April 11 / 22, 1707.
Louis Berard was hired by the Duke of Leeds to tutor his grandsons William Henry Osborne, Earl of Danby (1690-1711) and Peregrine Hyde Osborne, Viscount Dunblane (1691-1731). He provided weekly accounts of the education of the two boys in this collection of letters.
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated April 11 / 22, 1707.
Louis Berard was hired by the Duke of Leeds to tutor his grandsons William Henry Osborne, Earl of Danby (1690-1711) and Peregrine Hyde Osborne, Viscount Dunblane (1691-1731). He provided weekly accounts of the education of the two boys in this collection of letters.
Provenance
Purchased on the Fellows Fortieth Anniversary Fund from the Carl & Lily Pforzheimer Foundation, 1989.
Summary
Relating the "Mysterious Negotiations Between the kings of Sweden, Prussia & Poland...& of the chiefest articles of the treaty Concluded between the kings of Sweden & Prussia & Stanislas of Poland (for King Augustus has no share in it, being happy enough to keep his Electorate & the other dominions belong to him as Elector);" relating that he'd heard from the sources he'd spoken with "...that King Stanislas obliges himself as soon as he's peaceful possessor of the Crown of Poland, to make over to the king of Prussia, the Polish Prussia (called the Royal Prussia) & to yield him the full sovereignty of it, with the Consent of the Republick of Poland. The King of Sweden, on his part, engages to assist Stanislas with 7000 foot and 3000 horse, till he be settled in his kingdom, and to resign all his right & pretensions upon the Royal Prussia, to the king of Prussia, who in consideration of these cession & resignation, promises first, to assist king Stanislas with 3000 foot & 2000 horse untill he be acknowledged king of Poland by all the Republick, which 5000 men he obliges himself to recruit, as Stanislas to pay & cloth them: and then when Stanislas puts him in actual possession of the Royal Prussia he's to pay him eight hundred thousand Crowns (which come near to 200000£ stg) & to yield to the king of Sweden his part of Pomerania. I don't know what yr Grace may think of that treaty: But methinks the king of Prussia pays very dear for the honour of being king of both Prussias. Besides if his Majesty intends to reside at Berlin (as 'tis very likely) he deprives himself (in case of a rupture with Sweden) of a free passage to his kingdom, since he can't go from Berlin to Prussia without passing through some part of Pomerania. I'll say no more of this, leaving those Politick Considerations to yr Graces wisdom & knowledge. I wish only that my Information prove as true as I have reason to believe it;" reminding him that he will be taking the boys to Amsterdam over the Easter holidays.
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