Leibniz, Akademie-Ausgabe, 1704--1716

186 transkriptionen 1703–1716 N. 156
from Vienna 28 Apr. 1714, but the time that has been necessarily spent in communicating
the same to S r Isaac Newton and by him to the Royal Society (for I did presume your
consent to show it to call whom it concern’d, wil I hope justify my delay, especially
when I tel you that I waited for so good an opportunity of sendingy by my answer above
5 half the way to you by a very safe conveyance, I mean by the hon ble M r Whitworth the
Queen’s Plenipotentiary to the Congress at Baden with whose merit I suppose you are
not unacquainted, especially if you know him at the late Emperors Court etc. But I am
very sorry to tel you S r that my negotiations have not met with the disired success and
that our Society has been prevaild upon to vote what you writ insufficient and that it
10 was not fit for them to concern themselves any further in that affair etc. as will more
fully appear by the resolution enter’d into their books of which I shal shortly send you
a copy; and in the mean time the inclos’d pointed pamphlet which D r Keil gave me last
Thursday wil stay your stomack, til you can hear further from Hon d S r your most obliged
humble servant John Chamberlyane
15 P.S. I have order’d my my dear friend M r Wilkins who superintends my collection
etc. at Amsterdam, to send you a specivum of the L ds Prayer in Chinese from the M.S.
of the To [ - ] Golins, communicated to me by Prof. Relandus of Utrecht.
156. ECKHART AN LEIBNIZ
[Hannover], Juni 1714.
20 Überlieferung: K Abfertigung:
Vir Illustris atque Excellentissime
Patrone Colend me
Non ego minus doleo vices Ill mi Comitis Gianninii ob filium optimae spei amissum,
quam Tu unquam eidem condolere potes. Nec quicquam remedii malo afferre possum,
25 qui nunquam suasor ei mutandae religi onis fui, nec unquam probavi consilium ejus.
Iam cum ille tamen in instituto perrexerit, non possum ego non certissime credere, conscientiae
illum ductum secutum. Alias certe et quas appellamus, mundanas causas nemo
prudens apud eum inveniet, qui sua omnia et amicos etiam harum terrarum reliquit,
ut conscientiae satisfaceret. Honeste ego egi cum Ill mo Comite, et satis cito subindicavi,
30 quae metuebam. Sed plura tum non poteram. Iam cum certo sciam filium ex animo
1. 9. 2005