English Translation

%/ - 13 - 1714 the fear of the English of the growth of their own Russian merchant fleet comes to mind the King's fear of his Hanoverian inheritance, which he sees threatened by Peter's North German plans.1) In the course of the Wordic War, England's position becomes increasingly anti-Russian. England works against Russia in secret in Vienna, Warsaw, the Hague, Berlin and 2 Stockholm. In 17l6 George I of England plans to capture Peter on his second trip to Europe by Admiral Norris. His ships are to be confiscated, and the removal of all Russian troops from northern Germany is to be enforced. Even the idea is expressed of destroying the Russian fleet and killing all Russians lying in Zealand in one night. However, the English ministers oppose it, because in such a case they fear for the fate of the English who trade in Rufland. But everyone agrees that Peter in the Baltic Sea alone pamphlet literature of the time is in no way asserted l7l7 that the tsar is nothing less than the acquisition of the entire trade in the sea and the largest part of Asia - the sources of the narrow-- The double-play of English politics, which Sweden and Russia play against each other, 17l9 of the Russian envoy Weselovkiy in London characterizes: "Offering mediation and at the same time resorting to threats - these are two of the incompatible actions. To offer mediation in order to reconcile the Tsar with his enemy, and at the same time to declare that an alliance has been concluded with this enemy - is apparent proof that the mediation is not offered with the aim of achieving reconciliation, but with the desire to find a cause for breakage and enmity. 1) Brückner, p.43l f. and in other places. 3) Brückner, p.433. 4) Aleksandrenko, 1, p.12.