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142 he was to meet the French Ambassador at Soufliet; that he had sent to him to know if he might meet him anywhere, and he sent him word he should find him walking there in the afternoon; he told me he should talk a great deal to him, but he should be none the wiser; he thinks these changes will quite alter the minds of the people here towards us—he does not like it at all, for he thinks it will hurt the King.

18th.I dined at Soufliet, and, talking with the Prince, he told me that this change at our Court would make it the less necessary for him to go over; that, while the Duke of Monmouth was there, the Duke was desirous he should go; now he would think he intended to set up for himself. He showed me a part of the letter the Duke writ to him, which he did not at all like, for he thought by it the King had promised him to dissolve the Parliament in case they fell upon the succession. After dinner he told Fitzpatrick of his conversation with the French Ambassador; that his first speech was, that the King his master had commanded him to wait upon him, to assure him that he ever had great kindness for him as being his relation; that the "honesteté, prudence, et courage qu'il avoit vue dans tons ces actions" had