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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64310	Letters written by Sir William Temple during his being ambassador at The Hague, to the Earl of Arlington and Sir John Trevor, Secretaries of State to K. Charles II wherein are discovered many secrets hitherto concealed / published from the originals, under Sir William Temple's own hand ; and dedicated to the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Littleton, Speaker of the House of Commons, by D. Jones, Gent.; Correspondence. Selections	Temple, William, Sir, 1628-1699.; Jones, D. (David), fl. 1676-1720.	1699 (1699)	Wing T640; ESTC R16660	86,762	226

First for our warranting my Lord Willoughby's Actions by the 7th Article he would reason no more upon it if the 6th Article would not convince us by those words shall be restored bona fide in the same state and condition wherein they shall be found to be at the time when ever it shall be known in those places that the Peace is made He alledged likewise the words in the 7th Article taken or gotten in Places and Coasts far distant after the Peace is concluded and before it be notified unto those places and said my Lord Willoughby's Actions were not only after he knew of the Peace but after he had received orders from his Majesty for restoring that Colony according to the Articles of the Peace He ended that though in compliance to his Majesty they had given the last Answer yet they could never allow the English at Surinam to be his Majesties Subjects as I called them after that Colony was delivered to them according to the Articles of Breda with plenary right of Soveraignty and Propriety Et que si sa Majesté estoit resolve de prendre c●lle petite affaire si ●aut Il ●alloit avoir patience I had several times resolv'd never any more to write you back any of the Reasons used here against the demands I propose and Arguments I use to make them good because I have long sound that it is taken by many in England to be a pleading of their Cause and therefore I thought never to send you any thing in this kind but what they gave you in writing Yet I have Transgress'd again for this time because in your last you seem to desire to know what reply they make against my Lord Willoughby's being justified by the Treaty of Breda which I had omitted hitherto to acquaint you with because it was not directly a thing under my hands though I have ever observed that the States General as well as those of Zealand were as unsatisfied as could be with all that part of the Kings last Answer to Monsieur Boreel which concern'd my Lord Willoughby Besides I consider that though it be the part of a good Courtier to offer nothing to his Prince but what is like to please him yet perhaps 't is the part of a good Minister upon all Disputes to be faithful in relating the Reasons that are given him and thereby to lay all fair for a judgment to be made that so his Majesty may be sure to ground his Resolutions upon clear and evident Reason which is of infinite advantage to any Cause If the King would have me do otherwise I can much easier obey him and perhaps much better for SIR Your most Faithful Humble Servant W. Temple LETTER XL. Hague Iune 25. N. S. 69. SIR IT is sit to give you some respite this Post from the frequent troubles you have of late received upon the Subject of the Marine and Surinam I attend his Majesties Orders upon the last and shall perform them If we must fall out with the Dutch we can never do it in more nor in better company for I know not whether we are more dissatisfied with them at this time then France and Spain and Sweden and the Bishops of Collen and Munster the two last for particular Affairs wherein as far as I can see the Dutch use them something hardly and might have spar'd it in this conjuncture Sweden for refusing to secure any part of their Subsidies and Spain for pressing them to secure the whole by a Aypotheque of the upper quarter of Gelderland But these and several other Re●entments of the two last are supprest by their publick Interests and Engagements What those of the Bishop of Munster will be I know not nor what credit is to be given to the noise he makes I hear the States will this week fall into the consideration of giving him some satisfaction about the Tussle of the Countess of Benthem and the Duties levyed by them upon his Boats of Provisions passing through the Princess of Ostrizes Country which I am sure you have heard of some Months since in the common papers of Occuriences and which are the only pretences he can have for breaking a Peace made at our Coast and warranted by almost all the Princes of the Empire Yet it is agreed the Bishop has so far proceeded in his Levies of late that he is able to bring 13 or 14 thousand Men into the Field though the greatest part is of his own peasants However these Alarms have not yet prevail'd with the States to make the Recruits so long spoken of nor will I believe unless the danger grows nearer The Letters this Post from Madrid bring no very good account of the Disorders between the Queen and Don Iohn but say the last was resolv'd to come to Madrid in a few days if all was not accorded so as by next Post some issue is expected From Poland we are assured that Senate has been forced by the Equestrian Order to pass a Deeree for Exclusion of the Prince of Condè and with so much heat that one Person who had the confidence to speak for him escaped very hardly with his Life so as the Candidates are ●ow but two and the last Letters from Warsaw pretended not to judge which way the balance inclines but seem to apprehend least the Assembly may fall into some great Disorders and break up without any Election I received Letters this Morning from the Baron Bonstetten who assures me of the Cantons having been much satisfied with the Communication of my Letters to him Qu' a la diete de Seigniors a Baden Ils l●y donneront une responce ●t qu' ils sont tous a s●its incliner a tesmoigner leurs respects a sa Majestè en tout sort des rencontres which is all his Letter brings me referring me for other particulars to the correspondent given him here by Monsieur de Witt who tells me that he assures them very positively the Cantons of Baden Berne Lucerne Solerne and two more are disposed to enter into the Tripple Alliance and that a Spanish Envoy was arrived there with Money to invite the seven lesser Cantons So that upon the whole he gives great hopes of that strength being added to the Alliance which if it should happen would so surround France on all sides that I suppose they might thereby be induced to leave the World some time in quiet I hold my Resolutions of going to Amsterdam and making my attempt there towards the issue of our Marine Affairs but would be very glad first to see your thoughts upon the overture made by Monsieur Van Benninghen concerning Macassar I am always as becomes me SIR Your most Faithful Humble Servant W. Temple LETTER XLI Hague Iuly 5. S. N. 69 SIR HAving not been able to return from Amsterdam so quietly nor so speedily as I went by reason of the undeniable invitations I received from the Towns of Harlem and Leyden I am