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Rh his Majesty and the Emperor, Spain, and the States, he always looked upon it as an impracticable thing, and would often say the measures were to be taken between England and Holland alone; at least, principally; and then if any other Princes would come into that alliance they might be admitted afterwards.

The King is perfectly of this mind, and says the alliance between him and the States must be the foundation of all the rest, and, when that is well laid, for which his Majesty thinks the making of such a treaty as was proposed by the project you carried over, or some other like it, necessary; not only the crown of Spain, but all other Princes and States who shall be willing, may enter into the same. What you must continue to press for now is, chiefly, that Monsieur Van Lewen (with whom I have discoursed this whole matter at large, and who will, no doubt, have given an account of it there) may have powers sent him, which his Majesty is in great expectation of; and his Majesty says, that, if upon negociating with the said Ambassador, he shall find reason to alter his mind in any particular, he will readily comply with the desires of the States in it, but yet so as, at the same time, there may be a new treaty, though but upon the foot of the former, Rh