Archduke

And now began ambassadors to appear from divers princes.

The principal were René-Duc of Salas from the French King, the Constable of Castile from the Spanish King, the Count Arenberg from the Archduke, The former came to congratulate only, and desired the confirmation of the ancient amity betwixt the two crowns.

The latter two, about the establishing a firm peace betwixt these two kingdoms that had lived in perpetual war and hatred of each other, by which it might appear where the advantage of such a peace would fall, by those that sought, or rather bought it, with an infinite mass of treasure prodigally cast about the English court.

To bring these ambassadors over were appointed Sir Robert Mansell, being Admiral of the Narrow Seas, and Sir Jerome Turner, his Vice-Admiral.

Though the latter was a fool, yet had been very useful to them, as the tool in the hand of the workmen, and to have singled out these without some priests, which were traitors by the law, had smelt too rank, and appeared too poor, and plain a trick of state.

And Salisbury in this had a double benefit.

First, in ridding himself of such as he feared would have been thorns in his sides, secondly by endearing himself to the king by showing his diligence and vigilancy for his safety so that it might be said of him as of caesar in another case in veniam out i will either find out a treason or make one and this had been a pretty trick had it been only to disgrace without taking away life but how this piece of policy may stand with religion i fear by this time he too well understands and this plot, as near as I can tell you, and I dare say my intelligence gave me as near a guess as ever any man had, was that all these, in a discontented humour, had, by Watson and Clark being confessors, dealt with Count Arenberg, the Archduke's ambassador, to negotiate with the Archduke to raise an army and invade England, and they would raise another of papists and malcontents to join.

For you must understand, the King was believed an arrant puritan, cuius contrarium, there amassed.

And now began ambassadors to appear from divers princes.

The principal were René-Duc of Salas from the French King, the Constable of Castile from the Spanish King, the Count Arenberg from the Archduke, The former came to congratulate only, and desired the confirmation of the ancient amity betwixt the two crowns.

The latitude about the establishing of firm peace betwixt these two kingdoms that had lived in perpetual war and hatred of each other, by which it might appear where the advantage of such a peace would fall, by those that sought, or rather bought it, with an infinite mass of treasure prodigally cast about the English court.

To bring these ambassadors over were appointed Sir Robert Mansell, being Admiral of the Narrow Seas, and Sir Jerome Turner, his Vice-Admiral.

Though the latter was a fool, yet had been very useful to them, as the tool in the hand of the workmen, and to have singled out these without some priests, which were traitors by the law, had smelt too rank, and appeared too poor, and plain a trick of state.

And Salisbury in this had a double benefit.

First, in ridding himself of such as he feared would have been thorns in his sides, secondly by endearing himself to the king by showing his diligence and vigilancy for his safety so that it might be said of him as of caesar in another case in veniam out i will either find out a treason or make one and this had been a pretty trick had it been only to disgrace without taking away life but how this piece of policy may stand with religion i fear by this time he too well understands And this plot, as near as I can tell you, and I dare say my intelligence gave me as near a guess as ever any man had, was that all these in a discontented humour had, by Watson and Clark being confessors, dealt with Count Arenberg, the Archduke's ambassador, to negotiate with the Archduke to raise an army and invade England, and they would raise another of papists and malcontents to join.

For you must understand the King was believed an arrant puritan, cuius contrarium vera mest how likely this plot was let the world judge that the king of spain who had bought peace at so dear a rate and found it so advantageous to him by the lamentable experience he had formerly in the wars with this formidable state should seek to break it so soon and had it been a real treason the state had been bound to have rewarded these traitors as the best piece of service done in england all that king's reign it was indeed those that made the peace not those that endeavoured the breaking of it were the traitors and are to be cursed by all posterity yet this foolish plot served well enough to take some blocks out of the way that might afterward have made some of them stumble to the breaking of their own necks they were all arraigned of treason at winchester whither the king having sent some secretly to observe all passages upon whose true and faithful relations of the innocences of the persons arraigned and the slight proofs upon which they were condemned he would not be drawn to sign any warrant for the execution of raleigh cobham and gray very hardly for any of the rest the two priests excepted for raleigh's defence It was so brave and just, as had he not wilfully cast himself out of very weariness as unwilling to detain the company longer, no

Is he Austrian?

Is he? He was Archduke.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

I can't name another one.

You can't, you can't, you can't.

Here at present stand two bronze equestrian statues, one of the Archduke Charles and the other of Prince Eugene, and they were standing there also, both of them, when these two girls were walking round them, but that of the Prince had not as yet been uncovered for the public.

There was coming a great gala day in the city.

Emperors and Empresses, Archdukes and Grand Dukes, with their Archduchesses and Grand Duchesses, and Princes and Ministers, were to be there, and the new statue of Prince Eugene was to be submitted to the art critics of the world.

There was very much thought at Vienna of the statue in those days.

Well, since that, the statue has been submitted to the art critics, and henceforward it will be thought of as little as any other huge bronze figure of a prince on horseback.

In certain circles, however, people persist in crediting him with a mysterious sway over his imperial master, and in regarding him as the power behind the throne who whispers advice into the sovereign's ear.

That he may have served now and then as a link between Vienna and Berlin, between the Archduke Ferdinand and William II, is not unlikely.

At the close of the Balkan War, the Kaiser seemed to have abandoned his ally during the latter's vain efforts to secure the revision of the Treaty of Bucharest.

Furstenberg may have been used immediately afterwards to set the connection upon its former footing of intimacy and confidence.

Before the murder of the Archduke, he may have acted as a go-between for the two cronies when they drew up the plan of a war of revenge which, while compensating Austria for her disappointments, was to set up the supremacy of Germany in continental Europe.

To assign Prince Egon a more important role would be overrating his mental capacity.

We may safely acquit him of any share in the direct responsibility for the war.

During the early summer of 1813, the Russians and the Prussians, in several hard-fought battles, met with nothing but defeat.