August us hoped to be secure in Saxony

as Peter had meanwhile oceupied Ingria, and founded St. Peters~ burg, at the mouth of the Neva. But the victor of Narva despised an enemy on whom he hoped, sooner or later, to take an easy revenge, and invaded Saxony. At Altranstadt he dictated the conditions of peace in 1706. The Livonian Patkul, who was the prime mover of the alliance against Sweden, was delivered up to him on his demand, and was broken on the wheel. The King of Sweden, however, before he left Germany, required the emperor to grant to the Luther ans in Silesia perfect freedom of conscience; and the requisition was complied with. In September, 1707, the Swedes left Saxony. They were 43,000 strong, ' well clothed, well disciplined, and enriched by the contributions imposed on the conquered; Six you sand men remained for the protection of the King of Poland; with the rest of the army Charles tock the shortest route to Moscow. But having reached the region of Smolensk he altered his plan, at the suggestion of the Co ack hetman Mazeppa, and proceeded to the Ukraine, in the hope that the Co acks would join him. But Peter laid waste their country, and the proscribed Mazeppa could not procure the promised aid.