_Dankelman_ was artful enough to make his advantage of this happy Incident of having sav’d his Master’s Life: He stuck closer to him than ever; and that grateful Prince, as soon he came to the Electoral Dignity, made him his prime Minister, and confer’d all the marks of Friendship on him, that ’tis possible for any Subject to aspire to; insomuch that _Dankelman_ giving the Elector to understand one day, that he fear’d his Favour would be of no long duration, this Prince was so good-natur’d, or so weak, as to fortify him as far as was in the power of the most solemn Oaths[1]. _Dankelman_ was so credulous as to trust to those Protestations; and forgetting that the most solid Friendship of Princes cannot be proof against their Inconstancy or Caprice, he thought himself above the reach of Fate, and behav’d like a Man that had nothing to fear. But the little care he took to gain People’s Love, and the ever-odious Titles of Minister and Favourite, made him soon hated by the whole Court. The Elector himself began by degrees to be out of conceit with him; for their Tempers were incompatible; the Minister being Covetous, and the Prince a Man of Pomp and Expence; and he was so perpetually teaz’d with the Remonstrances of _Dankelman_, that he hated him in his heart long before he durst make it appear. The Minister too much elated with his Favour, and not so careful to please his Master as to censure his Actions, thought himself able to preserve the same ascendant over him, or at least, did not think the Elector would ever offer to ruin him; which Confidence of his hinder’d him from parrying the Thrusts that were made at him in secret; so that he was arrested at midnight in his own House, and carry’d to _Spandaw_ in one of the Elector’s Coaches, under a Guard of twenty Men. His being so suddenly disgrac’d was matter of surprize to every body, but of concern to few. ’Twas observ’d that on the very day wherein _Dankelman_ was arrested, the Elector spoke to him so kindly in presence of the whole Court, that those of the nicest penetration little thought his Fall to be so near. Indeed, every body had long before endeavour’d, or wish’d for an opportunity to trip up his heels; and the natural Inconstancy of the Elector to his Favorites, and this Minister’s want of complaisance to the Elector, made it very probable that he would quickly be tumbled from that Summit of Favor, on which he thought himself so sure of keeping his Hold; there wanted only a more specious pretext to remove a Man from Court, who had all along seem’d to aim at nothing but the welfare of the Government; and such a one naturally presented itself in the affair of the Duchy of _Limbourg_.