English Translation

1S - 12 - When the Russian envoy, Matveev, was to leave London, he was attacked two days before against all international law in the street and thrown into the guilt tower. Matveyev reported this to the chancellor Count Golowkin on July 23, 1708. On July 2nd he went to Sommerset-House, where the foreign representatives usually met to discuss news. On the way three men fell on his carriage. While two of them entered the carriage and Matveyev began to beat, the third ordered the coachman to take one on their way. Matveev were robbed of swords, walking stick and hat, and the girders were torn, but on his cry people rush to and stopped the carriage. You take him to the next inn, but then you have to let him go back to the men who have a court order to arrest him for a debt of 50 pounds. But before that, he was able to give news of the insult he had done to Sommerset-House, and the Florentine envoy, his special friend, visited him in prison, feeding the Portuguese envoys to the Secretary of State Boyle, who sent his secretary Walpole to prison and made Matveyev promise an investigation for the next day. It states that the arrest would have taken place at the instigation of the Swedish envoy. Matveev, who does not want to be in the turn of guilt until the next day, asks a friend to vouch for him and is released. On the other day, the representatives of the other states visit him and express their horror at this outrageous breach of the law of the Vöiker. The Secretary of State promises to report to the Queen on the same 1) day, which will give the Envoy satisfaction. However, the satisfaction is long awaited and is only meager. *2) With the accession of the throne of the House of Hanover in England 1) Aleksandrenko, Rusekie diplomatiXeskie agenty v Londonğ v 18 v., vol.2, Varéava l897, p.9-14; Solovtev, p.350 351. 2) Aleksandrenko, vol.1, Varsava 1897, E.215-223.