He professed particular veneration for queen Anne, as well as for the person of her ambassador, and declared he would take no steps to the prejudice of the grand alliance.

Nevertheless, the sincerity of this declaration has been questioned.

The French court is said to have gained over his minister, count Piper, to their interest.

Certain it is, he industriously sought occasion to quarrel with the emperor, and treated him with great insolence, until he submitted to all his demands.

The treaty being concluded upon the terms he thought proper to impose, he had no longer the least shadow of pretence to continue his disputes with the court of Vienna; and therefore began his march for Poland, which was by this time overrun by the czar of Muscovy.
INACTIVE CAMPAIGN in the NETHERLANDS.
The duke of Marlborough returning from Saxony, assembled the allied army at Anderlach near Brussels, about the middle of May; and, understanding that the elector of Bavaria and the duke de Vendome, who commanded the French forces, had quitted their lines, he advanced to Soignies with a design to engage them in the plain of Fleuras.