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48 much in the right, and they in the wrong; and are convinced that which he hath desired all along hath been for their interest and advantage, and they are very sorry they were not of this mind sooner.

The French ambassador, who hath lived with the Prince after a strange manner, never making the least civility, and perpetually saying, "qu'il etoit ambassadeur aux Etats, et pas au Prince d'Orange," will have orders to behave himself quite otherwise. I came to town yesterday morning, and I sent that afternoon to see if I could speak to the Pensioner, but he is out of town. I sent to Monsieur Van Beuninghen, and, as soon as he heard of my being here, he came to me, and, in the first place, made great professions of esteem and respect au Roi d'Angleterre ; and falling afterwards to talk of the public, he told me, he had endeavoured all the ways he could how to find out a means of preserving Europe, and he found that this of the guarantee would not do it; for, he said, if the King and the States did agree upon this project, if the Spaniards were not taken in to their assistance, it would signify nothing, for we may resolve to preserve a country, but, if that country will do nothing themselves towards it, it would be