The following Year the King undertook to procure a Peace between the Kings of _Sweden_ and _Poland_; but as the view of such Reconciliation was to re-establish the Prince of _Saxony_ upon the Throne of _Poland_, the King of _Sweden_ would hearken to no Proposal of Peace, unless the dethron’d King would solemnly renounce the Crown. Mean time his _Swedish_ Majesty, in order to mollify his Refusal of the King’s Mediation, sent an Ambassador-Extraordinary to him to recognize him as King of _Prussia_. This Ambassador was the first that ever made a public Entry at _Berlin_, and ’twas one of the most splendid that cou’d be, tho’ all the Equipages were in Mourning by reason of the Death of the Queen. Thus did this crafty King, by amusing those he had a mind to keep fair with, always push at his own ends. He continu’d to ravage _Poland_, and drove the King from thence into his Electorate of _Saxony_. There the _Swedish_ Soldiers took up their Winter-Quarters, and committed such Outrages as one would not have expected from a Nation so fruitful in Heroes. The _Swedish_ Prince signaliz’d his Entrance into _Saxony_ by a glorious Action, which was procuring the Liberty of the two _Polish_ Princes, who had for two Years been detain’d Prisoners with very great Severity and as little Reason. He afterwards march’d through all _Saxony_ with the haughtiness of a Conqueror who comes to prescribe Laws to those whom he has reduc’d to his Obedience. As for King _Stanislaus_ whom he had caus’d to be crown’d King of _Poland_ at _Warsaw_, he led him about, with him as it were in Triumph. As this new King advanc’d towards the Territories of the Electorate of _Brandenburg_, to meet the Queen his Wife who was coming from _Stetin_, our Court caus’d all the Honours to be paid to him that were due to the Royal Dignity, without recognizing him all the while for King. This Complaisance of our Court won the King of _Sweden_’s Heart. Mean time the Neighbourhood of this great Monarch, who, where-ever he march’d, carried Fire and Sword with him, gave vast uneasiness, and the Joy was as great when he manifested a Design to turn his Arms against the _Muscovites_, which he was put upon to do by the _English_. They had for some time past suspected him to be supported under-hand by _France_, and they thought the best way to embroil him with that Crown was to engage him in a War with the _Czar_. The Person commission’d to negociate this Affair was my Lord _Marlborough_, who went to the King of _Sweden_, and soon put his Negociation in a hopeful way to succeed. He found about the King a Minister so sordid, that he was not proof against an Offer of three hundred thousand Crowns, to betray his Master into a War which could not but be fatal to him; whereas, if he had pleas’d, he might have acquir’d immortal Glory in the midst of _Saxony_, by rendring himself the Umpire of two of the most potent Families in _Europe_, then contending for the Crown of _Spain_.