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Rh you need not take it for a great compliment, that for the remaining part of this matter I wish to change places with yon, else I will allow both the air and company and many other circumstances are so far preferable to yours, that I do not wonder you envy me, and that I envy nobody living. This place is so wholly possessed by the same business, that the peace of the northern crown signed last Saturday at Fontainbleau passes for a matter of no moment to Christendom; in your climate I believe you will think it something, and Sir Peter Wych will wonder at a thing done so suddenly here, which his friends in Schonen could not finish, though they gave him occasion to make so many politic reflections upon their meeting, which I doubt not but he has imparted to you as well as me.

We expect James Porter from Brussels this night, and my Lord of Ossory very soon from England, both bound towards Spain with compliments upon the marriage. Sir Henry Gotherick began his journey in a coach last Monday, and will doubtless be at Madrid some time before Christmas. My Lord and Lady Westmoreland are coming over to live here, which will not make my station less envyed by you; my Lord Sturton is come already, and I have frequently the honour