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A95270	A true relation of the severall negotiations which have pass'd between his Majesty the King of Svveden and His Highness the Elector of Brandenburgh. Translated out of French.; True relation of the several negotiations which have passed between his Majesty the King of Sweden. English	Charles X Gustav, King of Sweden, 1622-1660.; Friedrich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg, 1620-1688.	1659 (1659)	Wing T3045; ESTC R232949	45,496	63

A TRUE RELATION OF THE Severall Negotiations which have pass'd between his Majesty the King of SVVEDEN AND His Highness the Elector of BRANDENBVRGH Translated out of French LONDON Printed in the Year 1659. A TRUE RELATION OF SUCH Passages as hapned in the Iourney Undertaken by the Baron of SUERIN and the Honourable Mr WEYMAN Deputies on the behalf of the Prince Elector of Brandenburg to the King of Sweden In the Moneths of May and June 1658. IT is not without a great deal of regret that we are enforced to begin this Relation by complaints against those who are the causes of the desolation of our beloved and dear Countrey But it s the very last extremity which exacts them at our hands and which obligeth us to make a sad reflection on the pitifull estate wherein we have seen Germany ingaged by the Forces of those who under the cloak of Liberty and Religion have in such a lamentable manner extenuated that fair body as they have left it but a bare skeleton there is not so despicable a German who hath but one sole drop of bloud left in his veins that cannot be sensible hereof and who can cease from sighing at the rehersall of the calamities wherewithall his Countrey hath been afflicted We have dearly bought our Slavery at the expence of our Estates our Goods our Bloud our Honour and our reputations and we have forgot what we once our selves were to establish the Names of those who were scarce ever heard of less known in the Empire Nor have they onely setled the Seats of their Dominion on our Frontiers but even our fairest and most beautifull Provinces along the Elve the Weser and the Oder do groan under the intollerable captivity of their Government Strangers do triumph over our Liberties and they make a mockingstock of Religion whilest under the pretence thereof they have possessed themselves of all Pomerania and those other great Estates and Territories which they enjoy in the rest of the Empire It seemed that at length God would have pity on us and that by the Peace of Munster he would in some manner disburburden us of our miseries wherfore all men did generally return their thanks and acknowledgments to the Almighty thereon since all men beleeved they might have enjoyed their own in peace and might have reaped the fruit of their labours in quiet under their own vines and figg-trees and those who had overwatched and outlaboured themselves during the last commotions and disorders hoped now to carry their hoary heads in peace to their graves But the Swedish Seepter was no sooner departed the hands of a Woman whenas it became a burning torch in the hands of her Successor to kindle again the wars in Germany the first sparkles whereof appeared in the Swedish Forces before Bremen and the full flames not long after burst out throughout all Poland that famous Kingdom which so often and so gloriously stood in stead of a bulwark and defence to all Christendom being on all sides at once set upon by an infinite number of strangers craved the aid and assistance of all the world whenas this present King of Sweden took his time to fall upon its back whilst it was involved in a warre with all those other Barbarians and entring it by the way of its Protestant Provinces did menace it with no less then a totall destruction which it escaped by a meer miracle for as all the world must needs know had not the Almighty put to his helping hand we had not seen it in the condition it is in at this day His Elector all Highness of Brandenburg having born the greatest brunt of these disasters foreseeing that this fire was like to consume the best part of Christendom used his possible endeavours to stifle it in the embers and after it had blazed forth by his earnest and frequent beseeching the King of Sweden to reflect on the consequences of this business and the abominable scandall which would be given to all the world by so unjust an Invasion and even moved him to give ear to a reasonable and advantagious Peace but instead of gaining upon the said Kings minde his Electorall Highness found himself necessitated to leavy Forces as well for the defence of his own Territories which were assaulted by the Swedes as to comply with that obligation he stood engaged in unto the Crown of Poland True it is that the success was not answerable to his expectations nor to the justice of his Forces but an extream necessity and an overpowring Force constrained his Highness to treat with the Swedes and to agree with them in such a manner as they themselves would and tht fatall misfortune of Poland brought a generall revolution on the whole Kingdom in which it seemed that all the severall Estates and Orders thereof generally and unanimously conspired to the ruin of that Crown Now his Electorall Highness wanting the Power of a Protector in chief necessity did in some manner dispence with him in the duty of a vassall so that his waring against Poland may be in some way excused by the enforced necessity which plunged him therein however both Poland and Sweden do full well know that amidst the greatest successes of the Swedish Armies and even during those Triumphs in which his Electorall Highness might justly claim so great a part he had alwayes a heart bent to Peace and continually embraced the Proposals thereof with joy Insomuch that the Polonian affairs meeting with such a change by reason of the Denmark Warre the King of Sweden was forced to quit Prussia and in a manner to relinquish and renounce those Treaties which he made with his Electorall Highness whom the King himself counselled to heed his own affairs and to prevent those disasters which threatned the Ducall Prussia by the best means he could And accordingly by his said Majesties counsell his Electorall Highness took his resolution on the present conjuncture of affairs and did again reconc●le himself to the Crown of Poland with this Proviso however That both Parties should chiefly minde the Peace with Sweden and that in case either or both were so unfortunate as not to bring their good intentions to a desired effect as then his Electorall Highness should remain in a full and entire liberty to act in the Empire in relation to his own Interest and in conformity to the Peace of Munster And immediately notice was given hereof to the King of Sweden and it was represented unto him That by reason of the complying with the said Treaty his Electoral Highnesse could not any longer give the Swedish Troopes passage through his Territories nor permit that any prohibited Merchandises should be unloaden in his Ports And his Majesty was at the same time requested to think upon the Peace with Poland assuring him that it might be obtained on very advantagious Termes for the Swedes Whereupon the said King declared unto his Electoral Highnesse That he was very much inclined thereunto assured

the States of Vpper-Saxony who were assembled at Liepsig That he would no more march through the Empire into Poland and told Mounsier de Lombres the French Ambassadour who alwaies most vigorously seconded the King his Masters good intentions towards the procuring of a Peace betwixt the two Crownes That he would not only restore Prussia by reimbursing it in a manner for the charges of the War but that also he would immediately nominate his Plenipotentiaires to Treat on the Peace with Poland All which Declarations gave great hopes for a Peace in the North. But the King and Crown of Poland considering that the King of Sweden would obtain a great advantage from such a meeting to the above-said purpose by the jealousie which the Muscovites would harbour thereon and by the just cause which the other Allyes would have to complain of such a particular Treaty they thought it not fitting to engage themselves in such like Negotiations the event whereof was very uncertain and would ruine them in the opinion of all their Friends And indeed they perceived that the King of Sweden would not explain himself as to the summe which he demanded for recompence of Prussia And finally That since his successes in Denmark he required so immense a summe as was altogether unpossible for the Crown of Poland to procure or pay Moreover his Electoral Highnesse perceiving that the State of Affairs in Denmark had changed all the King of Sweden's resolutions and that he had proceeded to open threats against the said Elector he found himself obliged to his great grief to prepare against his violence whilest he used all the possible and imaginable good Offices toward the advancing and promoting of the Peace between the two Crowns And the posture into which the said Elector hath put himself as well by those Alliances which he hath made with his Neighbouring Princes as by the care which he hath taken to preserve his Army and to put his places in defence did not at all hinder him to apply his thoughts to devise a meanes to beget a Peace between Poland and Sweden with a resolution however That in case he met with too great difficulties therein at least to hinder the Swedish Forces from marching through the Territories of the Empire and getting that way into Poland thereby to prevent the ruine of the Vpper-Saxony Cerele and those iconveniencies which the Swedes would cause him to suffer to the prejudice of their verball assurances of the contrary given at the Assembly at Leipsig and at the Dyet at Franckford of their good and reall intentions And ilke manner by this meanes to endeavour to save and preserve all Germany from the devastations by Fire and Sword wherewithall the King of Sweden had threatned it Whereupon his Electoral Highnesse by his Letters of the 10th of March of this present year annexed and marked a Proof 1. requested his said Majestty to evidence his good intentions towards the Peace with Poland and to let him see the effects of the Promise which he made unto him thereon the said King answered him on the 10th of April next ensuing annexed b Proof 2. and told him That he had long since named his Commissioners for the said Treaty of Peace but that the Polander witnessed so small an inclination thereunto as that he durst not any longer promise himself any such thing Moreover the Earl of Slippenbach having at the same time invited the Baron of Suerin his Electoral Highnesse of Brandenburghs chief Minister of State to give him a meeting at Prentslou in the Marck of Brandenburgh he there shewed him a project or draft of an alliance which the King of Sweden pretended he would make with the King of Denmark and with some other Princes and States of Europe and pressed him on the behalf of the King his Master to move his Electoral Highnesse to send his Ambassadours thereon unto his Majesty and the said Count continuing his earnest pressing of the same by his Letters of the first of May annexed and marked c Proof 3. his said Electoral Highnesse who was the rather induced to incline unto a Peace by how much he knew that the preservation of his own Estates and Territories did partly depend thereon gave ear unto the counsel which was given him by the publick Ministers of France England and also by his Neighbouring Princes by his nearest Allyes and Kindred the Dukes of Brunswick and Lunenburgh and the Landtgrave of Hesse and nominated for this Embassy the Baron of Suerin and the Honourable Mr. Weyman one of his Privy Counsellors of State which Ambassadours departed from Berlin on the 13th day of the Moneth of May last past and being arrived at Kiel they were very well received in that place the Prince of Sulsbach and the Earl of Slippenbach coming thither to complement them on the behalf of the King treated them end entertained them with a great deal of civility and in that place they heard the King was at Flensbourg So that being arrived at Gottorp where they had order to negotiate several things with that Duke being a Prince of the Empire they gave notice thereof to the King who having sent them word by the Count Palatin of Sultsbach That it was his desire they should come to Flensbourg they immediately repaired thither At their arrival they were lodged by the Kings order and as soon as they had sent their Letters of Credence unto the Court a Person of quality came to complement them on the Kings behalf which good beginnings caused as great joy in all those who desired passionately the setling of a Peace as the Ambassadours themselves who flattered themselves but with over-slender hopes which vanished in a moment after They demanded audience but they were put off and delayed by several pretentions whilest divers persons were imployed to penetrate into the secret of their Instructions And the Swedes would needs know whether they were ordered to mention a Peace with Poland and the restitution of Prussia and they were given to understand That it being unlikely his Majesty could not hear such Propositions without being displeased might make a difficulty to give them audience which they demanded because it would tend only to exasperate the mindes of both Parties But that in case the said Ambassadours had the least power to treat on a particular agreement and to renew the former Amity between his Majesty and his Electoral Highness To renounce and forego the alliance which he had made with Poland and the other Confederates and to promise that his said Highness would joyn his Forces to the Swedes thereby to constrain their common Enemies to make a Peace as then his Majesty would receive the said Ambassadours and hear them with joy Which unacustomed and irregular way of proceeding did so much surprize the said Ambassadours as that they could not choose but complain thereof and did declare That they could not be admitted unto audience because it was known