[60] This Prince has for some time past resided at Konigsgratz.
[61] Who died, August 13, 1734, a Minister of the Cabinet, Velt-Marshal and Governour of Dresden.
[62] She died at Dresden soon after this was written.
[63] Count Moschinski, the Husband of this Lady, was Great Treasurer of the Court in Poland, and is Great Faulconer in Saxony.
[64] Madame de Cosel may thank no body but herself for her Disgrace; for when she was in Royal Keeping, she had the assurance to threaten the King more than once that if ever he abandon'd her she wou'd pistol him. The King, who knew her to be a Woman that always kept her word, thought it his best way to be beforehand with her, tho' it was not till some time after that he caus'd her to be arrested. Madame de Cosel, who was retir'd to Berlin, did not dissemble her Chagrin; and 'tis said she declar'd in publick that the King should pay dear for being so false to her: Threats which his Majesty wou'd perhaps have despis'd, if Madame de Cosel had not refused to give him back a Promise which he had made to her of marrying her in case the Queen shou'd die. Mean time the King desir'd of the King of Prussia to give orders for arresting her, which was done accordingly; and Madame de Cosel was carried under a Guard to Saxony, where she remain'd a Prisoner till the death of the King. But we have been told by the publick News-Papers that she obtain'd her Liberty in 1734.
[65] This Marriage was actually consummated at Dresden. But since the King's death, the Prince of Holstein has abandon'd his Wife, whom he only married with a view of obtaining some considerable Employment from the King. The present Elector has eas'd her of most of that Wealth which the late King had heap'd on her.
[66] He died in August, 1734; and was succeeded in his Employments by the Prince of Saxe-Weissenfels, and the Count of Friesland.
[67] The Count de Wackerbarth Salmour distinguish'd himself, in the year 1733, when the new Elector sent him Commissary Plenipotentiary to Poland; where he manag'd the Interests of his Master so well, that he was chose King.
[68] He was created a Count of the Empire (not by the King of Poland, but) by the Emperor. As he is a Lover of the Belles Lettres, in the late War he wrote and publish'd several solid Pieces, which were well penn'd.
[69] He was disgrac'd in 1731, upon which he retir'd to his Estate. The Catastrophe of this Gentleman is so tragical an Incident, that it will be proper to give a short but true History of it, as it is related in the following Circular Letter, wrote by the King of Poland's Order, to his Ministers abroad, for the Information of all the Foreign Courts. The Letter was dated at Warsaw, the 12th of May, O. S. 1736, as follows.