There is, however, little chance of the diet agreeing to call out the whole forces of the country, and the next battle will, like the last, be between the Swedes and the Saxons, who may have with them perhaps a few thousand Poles, belonging to the king's party." "You don't belong to the king's party, count ?" "No.

I, like the majority of our nobles, have no interest whatever in the war, for we were never consulted before it began.

It is an affair between Saxony and the Swedes.

Let them fight it out.

It would be a bad day for Poland, if Augustus and the Russians were to overcome and despoil Sweden.