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60 by the next post, but, if not, I think it will be no great matter, for I am sure there will be nothing to be writ.

I was with Monsieur Serichamps, who told me of a letter he received yesterday from Frankfort, that saith they are in great apprehensions of the King of France at Strasburg; that by his motions and proceedings they do not imagine he can have any design but to beseige it: and they did verily believe his forces would sit down before it in ten or fourteen days. Here they begin to apprehend the Elector of Brandenburg; they finding by his letter that he is angry, and hearing that he is raising more troops; and so I find 'tis all the world over. Monsieur d'Avaux, speaking of the greatness of the King, his master, said, that one of his happinesses was "de faire peur à tout le monde." Monsieur Serichamps told me another thing, which I take it is fit for you to know. When Monsieur le Marischal de l'Estrades went to Amsterdam to see what mischief he could do there, he did say that he had contributed very