Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums · 1900-01-01 · Heft 5 · p. Seite 274

274 Die englische Intervention z. Gunsten d. böhmischen Juden i. J. 1744. IX. Brief Robinsons an den Earl of Chesterfield. Vienna, March 17. 1745. My Lord I have been hononred with your Excellency’s letters of the 24tb past und 5^h inst. With respect to that concerning the Jews I was conscions that the siglit which your Excellency will have had of my letter of the 2()th past Mth. to the Earl of Harrington will have given your Lordship little more satisfaction than to have found my assiduity in eoncerting with Mr. Burmania every step to be taken in that delicate affair, as it is made to be treated here, and my readiness to support him in all his representations. The loose answer that we received in form togetlier from Count Ulfeld was the same that I had received from the Great Duke himself viz. “that it would be difficult for the Queen to revoke her edict, but as to to the time, whether a week, a montli or more month for the more or less execution of it, it was not absolutlely fixed. Fron! which and from other circumstances, I was, I added, apt to flatter myself, that time itself would be sorae sort of remedy, whatever later effects reflection and voluntary considerations might produce with respect to the whole. But notwitlistanding these hopes and the intercessions upon which. they were founded there has been no other immediate or visible effect of the latter than bare respite of a single month for the evacuation of Prague, and that respite arrived, unfortunately. so late tliat most of the families had already left that town before the former time was expired. In the meamvliile your Excellency may be persuaded of my continuing to concert with M. Burmania every other measure to be taken, and of my personal eompassion for these poor people, of which their principals are, I am persuaded, entirely convinced. Th. Robinson. X. Aus einem Briefe Robinsons an den Earl of Harrington. Vienna, 24. March 1745. But the unfortunate affair of the Jews remains still in the same state of delicacy and uncertitude as before, notwitlistanding M. Burmaina’s and my repeated instances. T. R,