Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums · 1900-01-01 · Heft 5 · p. Seite 276

27 G Die englische Intervention 55. Gunsten d. hohmischen Juden i. J. 1744. rest of that minister’s packet would be laicl before the Queen, & make, he hoped its own true impressions. When I spoke to Count Staremberg, he said, amongst other things, the Queen’s ancestors had thought proper to come t.o like measures with respect to the Jewish nation in one or orther of their territories, but then, things had been done with less precipitation and severity. Not to mention what has passed with the other ministers in daily discourses botli before and since the King’s instructions, I shall beg leave to observe in general, that there is not one who does not disclaim all share A part whatever in this rigorous sentence, and what is certain, they had all, botli separately and jointly, given their advice against it tili the injunction above mentioned. But Her Hungarian Majesty, to cut short their * representations, had, I am well assured, inforced that injunetion by letting thera perceive she should suspect any man, ־who should presume to divert her resolution, as one influenced by Jewish money, or too attentive to his private Interests, or to those of his friends and relations, for besides the general loss that will accrue to the Queen’s revenue, for which she affects an absolute indifference, there is hardly a man of estate in Bohemia A Moravia, who will not suffer greatly in his private oeconomy. The Great Buke and Prince Charles themselves liave gone as great length as possible to divert the Queen’s resolution. Düring her Majesty1 s lying in, I addressed niyseif to his Royal Highness, who told me frankly that notwithstanding all his endeavours, he found it impossible to get the edict revoked, but as to the time of the execution, “whether a week, a month, or rnore months“, it wras not, he said, absolutely fixed. I should do an injustice to this Prince, if I omitted to express the compassionate concern he was under. He told me in confidence the ill opinion that the Queen had conceived of me personally, as who, she had lieard, should, before I could receive *any Orders, have said, that Her Hungarian Majesty must be in great opulence, indeed, to throw so much of her revenue out of the Windows“. My Lord, there is no accounting for this singulär affair, but by irnputing it to some rash vow, or at least to some• very early insurmountable prejudiee in the course of her education. Her aversion to the sight of a Jew was to great to be