Ah, I hadn't read your comment when I wrote mine. (I should really read all the comments first, then reply.) I see you noticed the connection of timing with the Hubertus Hunting disaster too!
(Makes sense. Would you want to be known forever as "Little Devil" ?)
Lol, yes, exactly!
Re English envoys, see my reply: the list of envoys is in Wikipedia ("1751-1756 apparently no representation" made me laugh. Oh, Fritz.). Dickens was Hotham's secretary, as far as I know, and arrived when Hotham did. And yes, Hotham was sent specifically in 1730 to try to see if he could settle the English marriages affair once and for all (which he did, only...not as expected).
In a way, it's a minor miracle that he lasted as long as he did in Berlin.
I've ALWAYS thought that! Like, dear lord, no matter how much I personally liked Suhm, I would not have left him there that long. You may be right that Flemming was too sick. Though given that August personally scolded FW over the whole 1727 kerfluffle (which was almost exactly like the G2 kerfluffle in 1729, in that FW's agents were kidnapping soldiers, the other German principality had his recruiters arrested, and FW erupted) and allegedly told Suhm to get his butt back to Prussia, maybe August went over Flemming's head on this matter.
I need to read more closely the letter exchange between FW and August in question, but they consist of several pages of non-copy-pastable French, so ugh. Maybe I can figure out how to do the screenshot trick on my phone.
Still, Suhm doesn't seem to have done Saxony any good with FW. Perhaps he and Fritz were close already in 1727 (hopefully as father figure rather than erastes at this date!), and with FW's health, they hoped that his rising son connections would help any minute now? If so, they gave up on that just in time. As much as I would love to read Suhm's report on Katte's execution...I'm glad he didn't have to deal with the fallout of being the official envoy, given that even Løvenørn/Leuvener was in hot water. Can you imagine FW's feelings toward Suhm in August 1730?
FW: You totally knew about this! Your shifty eyes give it all away! Suhm: I've been trying to talk him into appeasing you since 1728! Don't kill me! FW: YOU KNEW!!
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Re: Le Diable: The Political Biography - B
Date: 2021-03-14 02:50 pm (UTC)(Makes sense. Would you want to be known forever as "Little Devil" ?)
Lol, yes, exactly!
Re English envoys, see my reply: the list of envoys is in Wikipedia ("1751-1756 apparently no representation" made me laugh. Oh, Fritz.). Dickens was Hotham's secretary, as far as I know, and arrived when Hotham did. And yes, Hotham was sent specifically in 1730 to try to see if he could settle the English marriages affair once and for all (which he did, only...not as expected).
In a way, it's a minor miracle that he lasted as long as he did in Berlin.
I've ALWAYS thought that! Like, dear lord, no matter how much I personally liked Suhm, I would not have left him there that long. You may be right that Flemming was too sick. Though given that August personally scolded FW over the whole 1727 kerfluffle (which was almost exactly like the G2 kerfluffle in 1729, in that FW's agents were kidnapping soldiers, the other German principality had his recruiters arrested, and FW erupted) and allegedly told Suhm to get his butt back to Prussia, maybe August went over Flemming's head on this matter.
I need to read more closely the letter exchange between FW and August in question, but they consist of several pages of non-copy-pastable French, so ugh. Maybe I can figure out how to do the screenshot trick on my phone.
Still, Suhm doesn't seem to have done Saxony any good with FW. Perhaps he and Fritz were close already in 1727 (hopefully as father figure rather than erastes at this date!), and with FW's health, they hoped that his rising son connections would help any minute now? If so, they gave up on that just in time. As much as I would love to read Suhm's report on Katte's execution...I'm glad he didn't have to deal with the fallout of being the official envoy, given that even Løvenørn/Leuvener was in hot water. Can you imagine FW's feelings toward Suhm in August 1730?
FW: You totally knew about this! Your shifty eyes give it all away!
Suhm: I've been trying to talk him into appeasing you since 1728! Don't kill me!
FW: YOU KNEW!!
...Yeah.