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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
Nothing need be said in this place about John Carteret, Lord Carteret, himself, nor more about his work in Sweden than to set down the sequence of its successes. He procured the signature of a preliminary convention, by which the Swedes consented to give up Bremen and Verden to Hanover, on 11/22 July 1719, when he had been at Stockholm but eleven days. A second preliminary convention, with Great Britain, followed on 18/29 August, when Sir John Norris had at last been allowed to take his squadron forward into Swedish waters. The first separate article of this guaranteed the Hanoverian convention, the second obliged Sweden to sell Stettin and its district to Prussia. Final treaties were signed with Hanover on 9/20 November 1719 and with Great Britain on 21 January/1 February 1720, on which date also Carteret and his French colleague, Jacques de Campredon, signed as mediators a treaty with Prussia, the Prussian envoy, Knyphausen, declining to commit his master to pay for his acquisitions twice as much as George I was to pay for Bremen and Verden. However Frederick William I, caught in a good temper, accepted the treaty three weeks later. Last, and most difficult of all, came the treaty with Denmark, accomplished on 22 June/3 July 1720.
page 108 note 1 Colonel Adolf Friedrich Bassewitz.
page 109 note 1 Charles Whitworth, afterwards Lord Whitworth, now envoy extraordinary at Berlin.
page 109 note 2 Count Louis-Pierre-Engelbert de la Marck, French envoy to Sweden 1717. His instructions, Recueil des instructions, II. 278 f.Google Scholar
page 117 note 1 Admiral “Claes” (Niklas) Sparre.
page 119 note 1 What Norris was to say in his letter is set out at length; a summary in the third dispatch to Carteret of this date (below).
page 125 note 1 Jacques de Campredon, French resident at Stockholm since 1701. He returned after his visit to France with the character of envoy and in 1721 was sent in the same character to Petersburg.
page 127 note 1 A congress summoned by the emperor to settle the affairs of the north had opened at Brunswick as far back as December 1712. Adjourned after a few months, continued endeavours to get it to work were made during the following years, without success. That George I made his own terms with Sweden in regard to her German provinces in the end, without reference to the imperial authority, was one of the counts of complaint against him at Vienna. Investiture of Bremen and Verden was persistently refused him.
page 127 note 2 There follows highest encomium of Campredon's experience ability and fidelity, in strong contrast to the later vituperation of him, when in Kussia.
page 128 note 1 Baron Friedrich Ernst von Knyphausen, the Prussian minister.
page 130 note 1 Anders Skutenhielm, secretary of embassy in London from 1720.
page 135 note 1 Of Bremen and Verden and Stettin.
page 136 note 1 Count Thure Gabriel Bielke, sent on a mission to Vienna.
page 139 note 1 Baron Henrik Frederik von Söhlenthal, Danish envoy extraordinary to England, 1713 to 1731.