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Rh any farther treaties. I cannot but think Monsieur V. B. means that a new defensive league should be made between us and Spain and Holland, and cannot comprehend that by Monsieur V. B.'s project, you should mean nothing but a league between us and Spain, which may be called his advice to us if he pleases, but cannot, I think, be called his project. If he means this last, I doubt he will find none here of his mind; if he means the other, that is, a defensive league between us and Spain and Holland, he would do well in that case to send his project of it over to the Ambassador here, if the Prince and Pensioner be of his mind in it, with orders to propose it to the King or the Commons, or at least the Secretary, though I am of opinion it is not a thing the King will easily fall into, or that could be effected easily if he should, the delays of all negociations with Spain being so great, and the miscarriages of all such matters easily brought about when they once take wind.

By your next, I hope you will set us right in this matter; and if there be any such project of Monsieur V. B. endeavour that it may be sent over. If it should be only as my Lord Sunderland understood it, an advice to his Majesty to make a defensive league with Spain, all that is to be said is,