About this time the Count de Gallas[7] was forbid the court, by order from the Queen, who sent him word, that she looked upon him no longer as a public minister.

[Footnote 7:  The Austrian ambassador [T.S.]]

This gentleman thought fit to act a very dishonourable part here in England, altogether inconsistent with the character he bore of envoy from the late and present emperors, two princes under the strictest ties of gratitude to the Queen, especially the latter, who had then the title of King of Spain.  Count Gallas, about the end of August, one thousand seven hundred and eleven, with the utmost privacy, dispatched an Italian, one of his clerks, to Frankfort, where the Earl of Peterborough was then expected.  This man was instructed to pass for a Spaniard, and insinuate himself into the Earl’s service, which he accordingly did, and gave constant information to the last emperor’s secretary at Frankfort of all he could gather up in his lordship’s family, as well as copies of several letters he had transcribed.  It was likewise discovered that Gallas had, in his dispatches to the present emperor, then in Spain, represented the Queen and her ministers as not to be confided in, that when Her Majesty had dismissed the Earl of Sunderland, she promised to proceed no farther in the change of her servants, yet soon after turned them all out, and thereby ruined the public credit, as well as abandoned Spain, that the present ministers wanted the abilities and good dispositions of the former, were persons of ill designs, and enemies to the common cause, and he (Gallas) could not trust them.  In his letters to Count Zinzendorf[8] he said, “That Mr. Secretary St John complained of the house of Austria’s backwardness, only to make the King of Spain odious to England, and the people here desirous of a peace, although it were ever so bad one,” to prevent which, Count Gallas drew up a memorial which he intended to give the Queen, and transmitted a draught of it to Zinzendorf for his advice and approbation.  This memorial, among other great promises to encourage the continuance of the war, proposed the detaching a good body of troops from Hungary to serve in Italy or Spain, as the Queen should think fit.

[Footnote 8:  The Austrian envoy at The Hague, characterized by Mr Walter Sichel as “a martyr to etiquette, and devoured by zeal for the Holy Roman Empire” ("Bolingbroke and his Times,” p 392) [T.S.]]

Zinzendorf thought this too bold a step, without consulting the Emperor:  to which Gallas replied, that his design was only to engage the Queen to go on with the war; that Zinzendorf knew how earnestly the English and Dutch had pressed to have these troops from Hungary, and therefore they ought to be promised, in order to quiet those two nations, after which several ways might be found to elude that promise; and, in the mean time, the great point would be gained of bringing the English to declare for continuing the war:  that