Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums · 1900-01-01 · Heft 5 · p. Seite 275

Die englische Intervention z. Gunsten d. böhmischen Juden i. J. 1744. 275 XI. Kobinson an Harrington. Söcret. Vienna, Marcli 27 th, 1745. My Lord I am at a loss how to answer fnlly yonr Lordship’s letters of the 28th of Jannary and 22. past n!th concerning His Majesty’s Eoyal intereession for a reversal of tlie sentence passecl upon tlie Jews in tliese countries, whereby they are ordered to depart in six montlis time. Before I was honoured witli fche first of tliese Orders, the queen had commanded her ministers to receive no foreign re])resentations upon a point ־wliich, as depending upon her sole Sovereign Will, She was at liberfcy to do as she pleased, This was the subject of the answers given to the Dutch envoy, tliese were the reasons alleged for refusing, for some time at least, to receive from the Danish Secretary and from an Agent of the Elector of Mentz, the respective letters et representations of their master s, and this was partly the style with which Count Uhlfeld received my applieations. What he principally seeniecl to take ill, tho5 1 opened myself as commanded bv your Londship’s first instructions in tlie tenderest■ and most friendly manner, was what he said he knew to be the strength of the Orders I had received, by which he meant tlie conclusion of your Lordships letter, where I was commanded to exert• myself witli all possible zeal A diligence, A to prove to me that my Orders were such, he produced a french translation of them wliicli had beeil sent by M. Wasner. Whereupon 1 told hini, that the personal zeal and diligence of a minister in an aft'air which I perceived was to become delicate, would consist in shewing the iiature and trne meaning of that amiable word intereession, & tho’ it might be possible for the Queen to forbid 11er ministers to receive any foreign representation, }ret it would be dilficult to hin der such a gracious intereession of tlie King, und of other great A powerful friends to the House of Austria from reaching her Him״ garian Majesty. Count Uhlfeld in softening, said I was in the right, for tho5 aecording to his Orders he could not enter into the matter witli me, yet he would not & could not secrete the translation of my Orders as sent by M. Wasner, which with the