The _Poles_ no sooner heard of it but they made a very great Clamor, and the King complain’d loudly of the Elector’s Proceeding, who being, _said he_, his Cousin, his Friend, and Ally, ought to have had more Regard for him. ’Twas at least after this manner that he express’d himself in the Circular Letters, which he wrote to assemble the Nobility of _Poland_. But the Elector went on still his own way, and the City of _Elbing_ was taken before the _Poles_ had so much as a Thought of defending it. As soon as the King of _Poland_ was told of it, he ordered the Elector’s Resident to depart the City of _Thorn_ in 24 Hours, and the Kingdom without Delay. M. _de Reitwitz_, Envoy of _Poland_ to the Elector, fearing the same Treatment, was absent from Court for a Fortnight; but return’d then, causing his Appearance to be notify’d to the Ministers, not as Envoy from the King of _Poland_, but as Envoy from the Elector of _Saxony_. By this piece of Management ’tis plain that the King of _Poland_ did not take the Affair of _Elbing_ so much to heart as he seem’d to do; and some time after the Matter was accommodated; the Elector consenting to lose one fourth of the Debt, and the _Poles_ promising to pay the rest at the Expiration of three Months, and depositing their King’s Crown for Security. The Elector on his part restor’d _Elbing_ on condition nevertheless, that he should have it again at the three Month’s end, if the 300,000 Crowns were not then paid. This Affair has ever since remain’d _in statu quo_: The _Poles_ are still Debtors for that Sum, and the Elector contents himself with detaining the Crown, which is still at _Berlin_, in the Gallery over the great Stables, where ’tis kept in a Case, seal’d with the Seal of the Kingdom of _Poland_. Mean time the Peace of _Ryswic_ was just sign’d, and sooner than expected, by reason _France_ receded from several Pretensions; which every body knows she was induc’d to do from the View she had at that time to the _Spanish_ Succession, and to that end it was absolutely necessary for her to make a Peace with that Power and to disarm the Allies. Consequently Messieurs _Dankelman_ and _Schmettau_ had no time to push the Negociation of the Affair of _Prussia_ any farther; nevertheless they acted with the _Dutch_ to some purpose. The Elector had sent _Bartholdi_ to _Vienna_ in the place of _Dankelman_, and M. _Blaspiel_ to _Dusseldorff_ to the Elector _Palatine_, whom he thought proper to treat with extraordinary Regard, as well upon his own Account, as with relation to the Empress his Sister who had a very great Ascendant over the Emperor.