He demanded that, as a first condition, they should dethrone Augustus.

Parties in the diet were pretty equally divided; but the proposal was rejected, for even those most hostile to Augustus resented the proposal that we, a free and unconquered people, should be ordered by a foreign prince to change our king.

So nothing came of it.
"The Swedish army advanced a certain distance into Poland, and there were a great number of skirmishes, but there has been no serious fighting, nor is there much chance of any, until the snow has gone and the country dried up in the spring.

At present, Augustus is quarrelling with the diet, who still set themselves against the importation of more Saxon troops.

But doubtless, before the campaign begins in earnest, he will have settled matters with the senators, and will have his own way in that respect.