_Bartholdi_ when he arriv’d at _Vienna_ found the Court in the very same Disposition as it was in the time of _Dankelman_. There was a great shew of Good-will, but no Advance made; for the Emperor’s Ministers were never at a loss for a Reason to defer coming to the Point. The Republic of _Poland_ furnish’d very cogent ones too, by the Protestations it made against every Step taken towards erecting _Prussia_ into a Kingdom, on pretence that it formerly belong’d to the Republic, and that the _Poles_ only suffer’d it to fall to the House of _Brandenburg_, on condition of its reverting to them on the Failure of Issue Male in that Family. The Emperor said he could not help having Regard to those Protestations, the Alliance which he had been in for a long time with the Republic being become much firmer since the raising the Siege of _Vienna_, when _John Sobiesky_ at the Head of the _Poles_ so effectually reliev’d it. _Bartholdi_ being dishearten’d with all these Delays, began to despair of the Success of the Negociation. He flatter’d himself for a while that the languishing State of _Charles_ II. King of _Spain_, which presag’d his approaching Death, and the cruel War between the Houses of _Austria_ and _Bourbon_, on account of the _Spanish_ Succession, would promote the Success of his Master’s Designs; and that the State Policy which at that Juncture oblig’d the Emperor to strengthen himself with Allies, would make him chuse to retain in his Party a Prince so powerful and so necessary to his Interests as the Elector. But _Bartholdi_ was deceiv’d; and whether the Court of _Vienna_ flatter’d itself that the Elector wou’d never venture to take the part of _France_, or whether they thought it more nearly concern’d them to humor the Powers that oppos’d the Elector’s Views, they had always some fresh Pretence or other to trump up.