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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
On Carteret's departure from Stockholm his secretary William Finch, second son of that man of weight in home politics, Daniel Earl of Nottingham, replaced him with the character of envoy extraordinary. His principal business in the years 1720 and 1721 was to bring the Swedes to accept from Peter the Great any terms that he would grant. For again in these years Sir John Norris failed in his mission to destroy the Russian naval power; as in 1719 he could neither reach the tsar's fleet in its harbours nor prevent the landing of troops on galleys to ravage the Swedish coasts. George I had to realise that his enemy could not be coerced. Disappointed of that inclusion in the treaty of Nystad, on which he had insisted and of which he had been assured, George professed to take little further interest in Swedish affairs until in 1723 negotiation opened for a new treaty between Sweden and Russia. In this again Peter refused to associate him. When in February 1724 it was concluded without him and apparently in hostility towards him, and when there followed report of intention on the part of Frederick I to abdicate, it was decided to replace Finch, who had failed to prevent these developments, by a stronger man. To avoid offence to his father he was transferred to the Hague, a post more honourable, but which the intimate personal relations of Lord Townshend with the leading Dutch ministers rendered less onerous.
page 145 note 1 Baron Karl Gustaf Sparre, Swedish envoy to George I.
page 145 note 2 Count Erik Axelsson Sparre, now at Paris as ambassador from Frederick I. For his negotiations with Schleinitz, the Russian minister, see the Recueil des instructions, VIII. 204.Google Scholar
page 145 note 3 Prince Boris Ivanovich Kurakin, Russian ambassador at the Hague.
page 145 note 4 Joakim Fredrik Preis, Swedish minister at the Hague.
page 147 note 1 Prince William of Hesse-Cassel, brother of Frederick I of Sweden.
page 148 note 1 William Lowndes, Secretary to the Treasxiry, see the Dictionary of National Biography.
page 149 note 1 Count Gustaf Adam Taube, governor of Stockholm, of the king's party.
page 154 note 1 George I had endeavoured, without success, to form against Russia a. league of all the powers interested in northern affairs.
page 157 note 1 The article, namely, including George I in the treaty both as king and as elector.
page 158 note 1 Presumably Adjutant-General Aleksandr Rumyantsev, employed by Peter the Great in his negotiation with Sweden.
page 160 note 1 The famous Russian minister Heinrich Johann Friedrich (Andrei Ivanovich) Osterman, one of the Russian plenipotentiaries at Nystad and who had conducted the former negotiations with Goertz.
page 161 note 1 Count Johan Lillienstedt, one of the Swedish plenipotentiaries at Nystad.
page 163 note 1 Now in charge of affairs at Paris.
page 164 note 1 Vellingk.
page 166 note 1 The reference is to the expulsion of Mikhail Bestuzhev from London in 1720, see Chance, , George I and the Northern War, p. 450.Google Scholar