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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

believe that the Elector was the Enemy since he laboured in Prussia towards the procuring of an Agreement even with your consents and that he rather endeavoured Peace then Warre and how can you convince him of the least hostilities in the Empire unless you conceit you build them upon imaginary apprehensions or upon the uncertain reports which are spread abroade against which there are other remedies then force and violence Time would have taught you the one and the divine providence accompanied by an innocent precaution would have cured you of the other But suppose the Elector had declared himself against you that could not justifie you neither For the example of severall Pagans would have taught you that there is nothing ought to hinder the hearing of an Ambassadour no not from declared Enemies were it but to let the world see that you only wage Warre to obtaine Peace The first Christians would have made a scruple of conscience to have done otherwise But to desire a Prince to send his Ambassadours to make much of them to receive them at Court and afterwards to send them away again refusing them audience is a thing not only unheard of but against all piety against the publick faith and against the Law of Nations We marvell that you endeavour to excuse this reproach by the Maxime That the Law of Nations and former customes permit the receiving of Ambassadours according unto the dignity of the Prince which sends them and in relation unto the nature of the buisness whereon they are to Treat all which is just as much as nothing For that is only to be understood as to the ceremonies and exterior honours which are usually done to the persons of Ambassadours which is not our dispute we are agreed as to the ceremonies insomuch as that if you would deliberate whether you should receive the Embassie or no whether the Elector should be considered as a declared Enemy or as a suspected Prince who was ready to Arme against you that you might have done at least if you could have conceived us to have been such before your having approved of our Embassie by your receiving of us We do not deny but that sometimes Ambassadours may be refused to be received but to deny those Ambassadours audience who have been received this we deny expresly and do judg it the more extravagant since in things of so high an importance Sovereigns cannot proceed with too much circumspection We likewise say that it is an unheard of thing to go about to oblige an Ambassadour who hath been received and acknowledged as such to declare the subject of his Embassie and his secret Instructions before he hath spoken with the party unto whom he is sent and likewise to endeavour to force him to undergo a kinde of Interrogatory before Commissioners this is very impertinent All men know that the Character of an Ambassadour is most holy and inviolable between Princes and Soveraignes and that from all ages and amongst all people they have been received with honour and respect and that their persons are held in the more veneration by reason they represent those Kings and Princes by whom they are sent Now whether this be performed or no by those manner of proceedings which you use we desire you your selves Gentlemen to judge Truly we believe that there is not one amongst you who would not be offended if a friend having appointed you an houre to come and visit him should let you stay in the Hall and should send to know of you by a Foot-boy or some other of his donestick Servants that thing which you would not disclose save unto himself But there is great deale of difference between Princes and particuler Persons wherefore we beseech you to consider whether the most barborous Nations in the world would not be laughed at should they undertake to examine those Ambassadours which are sent unto them and require of them the subject of their Embassie and consequently whether this kind of proceeding be not impertinent and insusportable especially among such as profess civillity and whether it be a thing to be endured that the secret which an Ambassadour hath express Order to communicate to none save the Prince unto whom he is sent should be extorted from him We should have derogated from that Character wherewithall our Prince had honoured us had we been so ill advised as not to have made a distinction betwixt the Prince and his Ministers Truely Gentlemen you shall hardly be able to perswade it us and therefore we beseech you not to build too much upon the Maxime which you so often use and which makes you swerve so farre from the mark th● the dignity of the Commonwealth permits not to hear Enemy Ambassadours in the Senate This is no generall rule nor ca● you make use of that which was heretofore said only up on the accounts of those who came as Spies and who would be heard without having asked audience against us who came upon the publick Faith who were invited received and honoured as Friends and therefore ought not nor could be gainsaid nor put by unless you did it purposely to offend us wilfully to faile in the point of civillity and mo●● cruelly to outrage us But we have said too much hereon the thing being so clear and manifest The Lacedemonians the Florentines the Duk● of Nevers and the Lord of Langey have by their example shewn us what is to be done on the like occasions to wit rather to withdraw then to be affronted Wherefore we shall only adde one word that at the same time you treated 〈◊〉 so ill your Resident who was with the Electors person a Berlin was there lodged and defrayed was admitted to audience as often as he pleased to demand the same and received all the other civilities which could be conferred upon a publick person We confesse we could not imagine what their designe should be by these your two different manner of actings and we had rather remit our selves thereon unto others then to become too importunate by an overcurious searching thereinto We desire not to penetrate into your reasons and we will leave it to the discretion and liberty of others to give your proceedings the blame or praise they may deserve But our Prince Elector who doth nothing but what he would have all the world know troubles himself not at all hereat or in case he had remained there to hinder his Electorall Highness from the declaring of himself our Prince who only aspires after Peace desired nothing so much as that even during the midst of the Wars We may easily believe that you did it purposely to entertain and amuse us till such time as the affairs of Denmark being regulated the King might have proceeded in another manner with us But our generous Prince vallues this not a straw for having not at all offended the King he needed not to apprehend any thing upon that account neither And if it be not in regard

given me cause to believe That they harbour a quite contrary design then to make a Peace Insomuch as that I am obliged to pitty those who give credit to what the Polanders do averre thereon whilest in their hearts they harbour no other designes save to oppress and ruine others and whilest their Councils only tend to the ruinating of the neighbouring Provinces Moreover you may rest assured that during my absence nothing was omitted or neglected which might tend to the said advancement of the Peace since my Commissioners who were fully instructed and furnished with sufficient powers might have done the same things and even more then I my self could had I been present as it doth plainly appear by those Declarations which I have thereon made and which may also be easily perceived by the very nature of all the said Negotiations Wherefore you may with more reason make your applications to the King of Poland and represent unto him as you do very wisely alledge it in the said Letter How much it doth concern you that the said Peace be forthwith concluded Besides which you may remain assured That I have with so much the more joy seen the Protestation which you do make of the continuance of your friendship towards my Person and Crown as that lately it was reported to the contrary And that they would needs make me believe That you had harboured and taken resolutions very prejudicial to the good of my Affairs However I alwaies conceived That being convinced in your conscience of the sincerity of my intentions and that being fully perswaded of the affection which I bear towards the preservation of your Person and of your Estates you could not possibly be rendred capable to give ear to those things which might be told you nor believe those things which might be averred unto you to the contrary farre less to change that Friendship whereof you have so often given me such great assurances But that you would have a great deal of reason to imploy all kind of meanes to the end that by Proposals of a reasonable and advantagious Peace I may be delivered from so great a number of Enemies as do on all sides declare themselves against me You do know that I have several times in writing assured you of the constancy of my friendship which makes me beleeve that on your part you will retain the same inclination to cultivate it and to relinquish those things which may either alter or destroy the same Finally I do not doubt but that the Almighty will continue to bless my designs will confound the counsels of my enemies and will dispose the hearts of my neighbours to Peace and to a reasonable agreement It is that which I desire with all my heart to the end that Peace being setled in our neigbourhood my Subjects may enjoy that tranquillity which I do endeavour to procure them The good God preserve you many year and grant you a perfect health and all prosperity From Gottenburg the 10th of April 1658. Signed thus Your dilections Friend Brother and Cousen CHARLES GUSTAVE POSTSCRIPT In case you would be pleased to explain your self a little more upon the present conjuncture of Affairs unto my Resident in your Court or unto any other of my Ministers in Pomerania untill such time as I shall be returned to the Army which will be suddainly you will extreamly oblige me The third Proof The Lord of Slippenbach's Letter to the Baron of Suerin My Lord the Baron THe zeal which I do bear to the service of his Electoral Highnesse and the part which I do take in his concernments do give me the liberty to write unto him and to beseech him not to fail in the sending of your Excellence in good time towards his Majesty of Sweden I have thereunto added my thoughts on the present conjuncture of affairs although it be not necessary to send water to the Sea I have seen not long since in Furmans Almnack that the Moneth of May doth promise a great deal of good luck to the read Eagle and I am perswaded that it doth signifie nought else save the reconciliation of his Electoral Highnesse and the renewing and cementing of his Friendship with the King of Sweden after which I doubt not but all the world will send and complement him on the good conduct wherewith all he shall have provided for the preservation of his Estates God grant this good work may be effected I beseech your Excellency to send me word about what time you do intend to set forwards that so I may meet you by the way I desire you also not to mention former Treaties assuring you That we shall no sooner have entered upon a Negotiation but his Electoral Highness shall therein find his assurance and contentednesse and by what I see in the Copy of the Letter which his Majesty doth write unto his Electoral Highnesse which I have just now received I dare say That there is not a happier Prince then his serene Highnesse I remain your Excellencies most humble Servant Signed thus CHRISTOPHER CHARLES de SLIPPENBACH The fourth Proof The Elector of Brandenbourg's Ambassadours Reply to the Swedish Commissioners notification of a Conference THe Prince Elector of Brandenbourg's Ambassadours do kiss the hands of the Lord President of Mr. Kley and Mr. Ehrenstein and do make known unto them That having reflected upon the advice which they received from them and that having sound by their Instructions that his Electorall Highness doth expresly ordain them to demand audience of the King of Sweden himself and having moreover pondred how that it is not the custome of Ambassadours to enter into any Conferences before they have had audience they beseech them not only to excuse them in that they cannot condescend thereunto but also to make their excuses thereon to his Majesty and to know of him when it may please him to give them audience since his Electorall Highness would have just occasion to be displeased with them in case they should suffer themselves to be deluded thus any longer The fifth Proof The Swedish Commissioners Answer to the Brandenburg Ambassadours refusing a particular Conference THe Deputies nominated by the King do kiss the Brandenburg Ambassadours hands and do give them notice that his said Majesty reflecting on his Electorall Highnesse being so farre engaged with his Enemies as that he accounts him a common Enemy hath deemed it necessary to cause certain Propositions to be made unto them which are no other save such as according to the custom of all Nations ought to be made before they are admitted to the hearing which they have desired because that the granting of the same doth depend partly thereon so that the said Ambassadours may dispose themselves to hear the said Propositions in the presence of the Ambassadours of Lunenburg and Hesse as well as the other Orders which they have received from his Majesty to communicate unto them The sixth Proof The Baron of Suerin's Letter