[72] The expedition was made and failed ignominiously.
[73] Palmer, Memoirs of Sobieski. See also Biographie Universelle, art. “Hevelius.”
[74] Bourbon l’Archambault, in the department of Allier.
[75] He alleged as his reason the poverty of the marquis. Some scandal was caused by the attempt of the French queen to secure this honour for a certain Brisacier, her attendant, who represented himself as the natural son of Sobieski during his visit to France. John could not remember the circumstances, and the French queen afterwards denied that she wrote to him upon the subject. The affair was never explained.
[76] In which he summoned the Diet and enumerated the agenda.
[77] Oratio principis Radziwill ad Imperatorem.
[78] The Diet afterwards sent succours to the relief of Vienna, and the electors of Bavaria and Saxony each commanded a contingent.
[79] Daleyrac, Preface to Polish Manuscripts.
[80] Daleyrac, ch. ii. p. 44.
[81] Salvandy (ii. 161) says that in August Leopold offered to cede him the kingdom of Hungary, and to guarantee the succession to his family, and that John answered that he wished for no other reward but the glory of deserving well of God and man. The offer, if made, could not have been bona fide.