One particular Circumstance in this Journey that prov’d of such Service to the Elector’s Designs, and which many People look’d upon as a politic Action, is, that it would not have been undertaken, had it not been for the extreme Fondness of Madame _de Wartemberg_ to be admitted in the Electoress’s Circle. This Princess upon the Intelligence she receiv’d that her Mother the Electoress of _Hanover_ was going to _Aix la Chapelle_, was very desirous to go with her, but she cou’d not hope to obtain the Elector’s Consent to it, nor to have Money enough with her to bear her Expences, if the Count _de Wartemberg_ oppos’d it; and therefore she charg’d Madamoiselle _de Pollnitz_ my Cousin to speak to him about it. The Count _de Wartemberg_ promis’d not only to obtain the Elector’s Consent, but also to give the Electoress an Order at large to take up any Sums of Money that she should want, provided that Princess would on her part only acknowledge the Favor, by granting his Wife the Honor of Admittance to her Circle. The Electoress had this Journey so much at heart, because she knew it wou’d give her the Pleasure of seeing a Mother whom she tenderly lov’d, as well as a Freedom, for some time at least, from the Constraint she was oblig’d to live in at _Berlin_, that she consented to the Count’s Demand. Madame _de Wartemberg_ was admitted to the Circle, and all the Mortification the Electoress gave her, was always to talk to her in _French_, which being a Language she did not understand, plainly shew’d the Obscurity of the Countess’s Birth; for at that Time all Persons of any Rank or Figure convers’d in that Language commonly at our Court. The Electoress’s Condescension upon this Occasion is the only thing for which she was to blame; for ’twas a Precedent which gave others Authority to desire the same Favor; and to this may be said to be owing the unequal Matches which several of the Nobility made afterwards. The Count _de Wartemberg_, in order to obtain the Elector’s Consent, gave him to understand that the Princess his Consort cou’d do more than any body to prevail with the King of _England_ to recognize him for King. This was touching him in the most sensible part; and therefore he made no Scruple to let the Electoress go, who went and met her Mother at _Aix la Chapelle_, and from thence they set out afterwards for _Brussels_. There they stay’d a few days, in order to disguise the Motives of their Journey, and from thence they went to _Loo_, where the King of _England_ was. They each obtain’d of the Prince what they went to ask him; the House of _Hanover_ was soon after call’d to the Succession of the Crown of _England_, and the King gave his Promise, that as soon as the Emperor had own’d the Elector King of _Prussia_, he wou’d be one of the first to follow his Example.