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244 being so, if some expedient might be found to which the Prince would agree, we shall be all happy, but they are so averse to everything but the bill, it must be some extraordinary means that can make them be ''contented with less than that. These means'' I think can only be found in the Prince's coming, and in the manner we have formerly thought of, all which Sir W. Temple hath writ at large.

The prorogation every body will write to you about; if they can tell you what will follow, they know more than I do.—I am for ever yours.

16th.Monsieur Van Beuninghen was with me. He desired me to write to the King to have a care of Italy and Germany, as well as he hath had of Holland.

18th.The Prince dined with me, and told me it would have been impossible for him to have opposed the Alliance, unless the King had appeared, as he had done ; and that nobody durst have done it, for the people would have pulled them in pieces, if any ill accident had happened.

19th.I carried the Prince a letter which pleased him extremely. I dined with the neighbourhood, where there were above a hundred people at dinner.