a pleasure is taken in the crying down of the same as it seemes they are glad to have met with something whereon they might frame a pretended quarrell against him Neither can it be with any other design that his Electorall Highness is accused To have solicited the Warre against Poland to have quitted the alliance without any necessity to have made a new one with Poland and with the House of Austria to have endeavored to engage the King of Denmark in the same to have promised relief to the one and to have demanded it from the other to have given passage to the enemies to have recalled his Subjects out of the Kings service to have hindred his Leagues to have seized the Gunpowders and to have done several other things without the making of any distinction either of time of places with as much affectation as injustice It would be a very easie matter for us to reply on all the Accusations in such a manner as thereby we might manifest the justice of our Cause and the integrity of our Intentions if so be our Prince who is not capable of our unworthiness and low actions had not rather remit himself thereon unto your own Consciences then to render you ashamed by those Answers which he would return to your reproaches However we cannot choose but tell you That there is so much the less appearance of what you alledge That his Electorall Highnesse should have sought unto you for your alliance to make War against Poland as that you cannot tell why he should have done so what advantages he could thereby reape or what glory he should thereby acquire Warre certainly cannot be pleasing save only unto those who are transported either by ambition or covetousnesse or who through poverty are constrained to live by Thefts and Robing of other mens Estates Unto such I say as take a delight amidst the publick calamities and esteem their only tortures to consist in Peace and Tranquility who reverence vice and who account of Pillagings Murders Violations Sacriledges and the other inseparable disorders which are tyed to a Warre as heroick Vertues and as qualities becoming a King But our Prince was alwaies incapable of such unworthy thoughts For he sucked Piety from his Mothers Breasts and he inherited the love of Justice and the fear of God from his Predecessors We full well know that those Warres which are not altogether necessary prove oftentimes the most saddest unto those who wage them Wherefore we did disswade the Polonian Warre by divers and sundry Embassies The Town of Stetin doth very well know that we abhorre the very thoughts of that Warre and that we never had a hand therein but when we were constrained thereunto which you cannot likewise deny in case you do but call to mind how that the Polonian Warre was no sooner resolved on but that at the same time you resolved likewise to engage the Elector therein whether he would or not And we were so farre from pressing you to Warre against Poland that Wittenberg was already entred that Kingdome when your Ambassadours came to this Town to seek unto us or rather to threaten us and constrain us to enter into an alliance with you We could hardly believe that you could have the impudence to reproach us in this wise unless you had had assured proof thereof Wherefore we required to know of those persons which make up his Electorall Highness Council whether or no their deliberations could in any wise have given cause for the said Accusation We have runne over the Drafts of all the Letters which were thereon written and we have perused all our Registers to discover whether happily your cunning the necessity of those times and the state of affairs as then which were capable to have moved the firmest constancy and the resolutest determinations might have extorted from us any thing implying the same But we can take God to witness That we could not light upon any thing in the least That might cause us to suspect our having failed in our fidelity to Poland or of our amity to Sweden For our Elector could never sufficiently move the entring on a Peace unto all your Ambassadours nor to recommend it unto those who sided with Sweden True it is that he gave ear to your Propositions That he accepted those advantages which you proffered him purposely to gain him to your party and That he did receive your Presents But all this he did with an upright heart and on purpose to preserve them for the right owners least they might fall into the hands of strangers The refusall which you made to condescend to a Peace with Poland and the Warre wherewithall you threatned the Ducall Prussia did constrain his Electorall Highness to enter into a Negotiation with you and engaged him in a Treaty by which he alwaies hoped he might meet with an occasion to serve you as well as the Polanders to preserve both the one and the other by a good Treaty of Peace and to give a Testimony of his constant Fidelity to Poland For which purpose our Ambassadours were continually with you and never departed your Court who incessantly pressed you to come to a Peace and who amused you whilest we were not as yet gotten into a posture to defend our selves However we sticked not to take up Armes to continue our Leagues and to pass with our Army into Prussia notwithstanding our oppositions and threatnings You may well remember Gentlemen what passed as then and what the Elector did to endeavour to beget a Peace or to uphold the justice and equity of the Polonian Forces by the conjunction of his own till such time as that he saw he could not obtain any thing at your hands that was just nor overcome your obstinacy to destroy all Wherefore he rather chose to expect the very last extreamities then to fail in that Fidelity wherein this generous and good Prince stood ingaged to the Crown of Poland Both the Royal Prussia and the House of Austria and the States of the United Provinces can witness those endeavours which were used by his Electorall Highness for to ingage them in an alliance which might be sufficient to oppose these Vsurpations And we heartily grieve that the success thereof did not answer our Expectations However we shall alwaies retain this satisfaction to our selves That the Elector never changed his mind and that he never failed in his duty but by constraint No not with Poland its self His Elector all Highness could have wished withall his heart to have seen the said Kingdome in a better condition But in regard that the King himself had deserted it that the Senatours had abandoned the management of affairs that the Souldiers were possessed with a general cowerdize that all Subjects were treacherous and that even those who were born and payed to fight in the defence of that Common-wealth had taken up Armes against her He was constrained even to give way to those great Evils
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
which had overwhealmed the whole State Insomuch that there cannot be any unbyassed dsiinterressed party but will praise the Electors prudence who in the preserving himself by the meanes of a Treaty remained in a condition both to preserve Poland and Sweden together Poland itself is discreet and rational enough to acknowledge it and to avouch That all necessary meanes are honest and lawfull and that the Obligation of the Lord and of the Subjects being reciprocall The Subject cannot be blamed for having failed to defend the Lord in case the Lord hath failed to protect the Subject And wherein Poland is more equitable then you are for being sensible of her sad enforced destiny she bewailes ours not accusing us to have quitted her party because she knows we were constrained thereunto although she likewise full well knows That in case the loss of the battell of Warsowe be not wholly due to our Army yet at least it did not a little contribute thereunto Wherefore we conjure you Gentlemen without passion to reflect upon the tye which lieth upon us to endeavour the begetting and preserving a Peace between Poland and Sweden and to maintain their power in a just equality as also to judg how little appearance there is that we should have obliged your King to take up Armes against Poland And whether it be not a very dishonest part to alledge That we endeavoured to make an alliance for a Warre which of necessity must have proved destructive to our selves We only desire you chiefly to consider how and in what matter you can possible blame our reconciliation with Poland And with what equity the King can condemn our proceedings at Bromberg seeing he approved of what had passed at Koningsberg And truly since you were not ashamed to impose a Law and a necessity on a Prince your Friend and to constrain him to act against the Lord of his Mannor the King ought to harbour so much generosity as not to be displeased to see that reunited again by a secret destiny which was disunited by your violence and force Princes do not proceed like common people They are not accustomed to pick groundless quarrels nor are they transported by cholar Their Fortune is above all that So likewise do they not undertake any Warre but with a resolution to obtain a Peace We were constrained to side with you and so long as the State of our affairs did permit as to stay by you we upheld your party with Fidelity and never abandoned you till you had deserted us and had left us to the discretion of Fortune without either hopes of a Peace or of a Relief Nor can you be ignorant in what a condition the Kings Forces were in when we drew off after the Battell of Warsow and in what a manner the Enemies recruted themselves after the said loss which instead of quite ruining them restored all their affairs and put a double proportion of courage into them We found them marching at our heels when we thought we had laid them along and we found them pursuing us in the reare laying all waste wheresoever they past and putting all to fire and sword in their pursuite menacing us even after their defeate and flying away more like Victors then overcome men The Transilvanian trembled the Muscovite threatned us and the King of Denmark thwarted all your designes by a new Warre whereby the King was obliged to abandon the whole to march unto the relief of the Principality of Bremn In regard whereof we could not refuse to hearken unto the Remonstrances of our Subjects to the Prayers of our Friends and to the proffers of our Enemies or rather We were constrained to make a Peace with Poland and to accept of those conditions which were proffered us although they had been farre less equitable then those which were granted us Now this being the true state of the buisness Can you with reason alledge that the Elector abandoned you Can you with equity be displeased thereat Are you in a capacity to threaten him And can you hinder him to agree with the Enemy and by a Treaty to endeavour to preserve his Estates the which you could not defend An invincible necessity might have induced him had there been one to have preferred his Interest before anothers But nature it self even from our Childhoods doth teach us to avoid our own ruine by all meanes possible That which necessitates doth justifie and where necessity reignes there is no Law For in a storm each man seeks his own preservation though to the loss of other mens goods We confess that the King wished us better luck and that he used all meanes possible to retain his Electoral Highnesse on his party to which end he caused several Propositions to be made He desired that we would make use of his Council and he made us hope he would make Peace with Poland and that he would return to the Army within six weeks time which proved meer words and nothing more was intended But we stood in need of effectuall and powerfull relief against the enemy who was already gotten into our Countrey whilest the King having abandoned Prussia and his other Allyes was departed from thence and was ordering his Affairs in Germany Insomuch as that all men must needs perceive there was no choice left to be made at that time and that his Electoral Highnesse being not able any longer to resist the strength of necessity was constrained to bethink himself of minding his own buisness and to preserve himself by meanes of a Treaty Wherein we only made use of the Kings Example who was farre cunninger then we when he abandoned his Conquests in Poland and his Friends in Prussia to defend his Estates in Germany rather then other mens any where else But however he hath been so much the more unjust that having failed of his word through a less pressing necessity he finds fault that in an utmost extreamity we have followed his Example You would willingly perswade us That we might have avoided that necessity by doing or suffering such things to be done as ought to have been done and the which would have been very easie But we attribute this to the good reallity with which you are used to proceed in all your other affairs even to the prejudice of your best Friends Nor can we choose but admire the dexterity whereby you could penetrate so deep into our affairs as not only to discover those secrets which we were desirous to have kept from the knowledg of others but also those which were unknown to our selves But as you have so good an opinion of your own buisness take care you be not deceived in ours For if every one ought to be beleeved as to his own concernments we must confess that your affairs being almost in a desperate condition because your subtilty could not overpoise those Forces which were a falling upon you from all sides How was it possible for us to hope to preserve our selves
and God grant as yet you may possess them truly it is a part of your duty and if so be the charming name of Peace if the continuall prayers of the people if the just apprehensions of ill successes of an unjust war and if the sense of the wrath of God which hath been so rashly provoked are not sufficient to cause you to change your resolutions at least you ought to â—â—â—sider if possibly you can That the hopes of an inconsiderable advantage ought not to have so great an ascendent upon you as meerly in a frolick and in an humour to cast a faithfull Friend into an irrecoverable enmity You full well know we have sworne to the Alliance which we have made with Poland and since you enforced us thereunto it was a part of your prudence to have endeavoured the regaining of a Friend who had not as yet offended you instead of declaring warre against him and reducing him to the last extremity unless it turns more to your advantage 〈◊〉 have constrained him to declare himself against you Now if there be any fault in this which we have done surely you that have enforced us thereunto cannot scape innocent The Interests of Religion which are alledged are very considerable 't is true but the means to preserve them were propounded unto you as well as the others since the Polanders proffered to have a care thereof and to remedy all those particulars which might have induced you to wage warre and all this with the more certainty as to Religion in that the conscience and the Religion of the Elector found their security in the Soveraignty of Prussia which the King had granted unto him But we must likewise confess That you did not greatly heed Religion whether or no you judg wisely and piously that she may be perswaded but not commanded that it is not warfare but a godly life not force or violence but sufferings to Martyrdomes which establish it or whether you really know that there is no place in the world where the pretence of Religion is of less effect in martiall affairs as in Poland For it is most true and we know it by experience that the warre hath most of all shaken the state of our Religion and whereas in times of peace we enjoyed an entire liberty of conscience throughout all Poland the warres were no sooner begun there again but in hatred unto your forces they persecuted those who made profession of the Protestant Religion whereas Peace would have preserved the same and also by a Treaty you might have had great advantages granted for the furtherance of the same But truly this is not th◠… ing which we can expect from you for how can those be zealous as to concernments of Religion who are manifestly unjust by demanding and possessing of Prussia who violate all the Laws of Friendship to become Masters of the Baltick Sea We have seen you stirre Heaven and earth tosse all things topsiturvy make no distinction betwixt Friends or Enemies party or party to compass your designs which you have laid to joyn all these spatious and great Provinces to your Crown This is an effect and mark of your Religion but whereof till now we had not learnt the rules when you say for you do not at all disguize it that Kings are the Masters of all It is a pretious and pious Notion to say That the Polanders are obliged in conscience to defend Christendome from the invasions of so many Enemies and barbarous Nations whilest your poverty permits you to be pious and puts you in a most blessed condition if your ill fortune shut you up at home where you will alwaies reap this comfort by the assurance you have that you may alwayes unpunished assault others without your fearing of being assaulted by others in your own homes In case your King be resolved to continue the warres which we hardly beleeve he would not be a little troubled to beget the same minde in all those of his party It would prove a new unheard of kinde of Justice to prefer warre before peace Prussia before the interests of the whole world and your particular Laws to the Almighties In regard whereof the Prince Elector being sensibly touched with all these disorders and seeing that the state of affairs required him to take a strong resolution either to prevent and remedy them or to perish he would essay whether his example might prove capable to bring you back unto reason or at least in case our sinnes would not permit us to hope that to try whether all honest men might not be perswaded That it was not his fault the Peace was not made and that all the North at this present doth not enjoy a profound Tranquillity But since this hath not succeeded by reason that your King not being satisfied with his too unadvised rejecting our Embasie endeavours moreover to cast a blame upon us which he knoweth cannot be excused on his part you will therefore not take it ill Gentlemen that we both remit you and our selves unto the judgement of the whole world as to what is past that so they may immediately decide this first question viz. Whether or no in the present conjuncture of affairs the Elector can be blamed for having sent Ambassadours to the King Whether or no his Majesty hath done well to send us back again without hearing of us Whether it may not be said That the King by refusing to acknowledg us otherwaies then in the quality of Ambassadours from Enemies hath not declared Warre against the Electorall Highness and whether by refusing of the Peace he hath not infringed the same We are willing to remit our selves hereon unto your own selves Gentlemen and we have so good an opinion of your prudence and of your justice as that we perswade our selves your belief is the same with ours That the Motions which induced the Elector to depute this Embassie are good and Religious and that the Parties which were employed therein did behave themselves like Persons of Honour and therefore we conceive we ought not to insist any further thereon For since we had no other design save to preserve that Friendship which we had contracted with you and to procure a just and honourable Peace between the two Crowns to your advantage to the content of all our Friends and Allyes and for the repose and peace of our consciences me thinks we might have gone directly to the King although we had been your declared Enemies we might have done it I say because you had approved of it for I pray what other means have you speedily to remedy those disorders which afflict us You are all Learned men and you know that one Associate may act for the other and moreover it may easily be perceived that our Prince did send this Embassie unto you with a very good intention not as an Enemy but as a Friend not with your thoughts but with his own Do but consider I pray with
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 reconcâ—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