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Rh like them very well; that the French Ambassador had not yet desired that it should not pass, but that if he did, he should be against the passing of it. He told me they thought of sending Pats into Spain. He begins to incline to us, and a great many that were for the Alliance with France are now on our side.

6th.I sent for the Doctor: he was with me twice. Colonel Fitz Patrick stayed with me all the afternoon.

7th.I took physick. In the evening the French Ambassador sent to see how I did. Soon after Sir Robert Southwell came; he told me the reasons why my Lord Bodmin did not come. He brought Mr. Dorley with him, and gave me his instructions to peruse, and the project of a treaty. He tells me there is a great calm in England.

8th.I went with Sir Robert Southwell to the Prince; he gave him his instructions and other papers to read; he advises him to make what haste he can to the elector; he tells him plainly that he will find difficulty—that he is an odd-humoured man, and extremely unsatisfied with this state, and not very well pleased with the Prince. He pretends to have subsidies from them till the making of the peace, and will give no longer than to the