Te Deum like to be Sug There were several Letters writ to Mr. Coleman by the late Earl of Berkshire under the borrowed name of Rice The names of principal men and matters are therein expressed in words of Cabal or Cypher which there was not any key found to open and explain But at the Committee of Lords there was the following key made but made by Conjecture onely and therefore it is not warranted for certain But the Reader may use this or his own sense and Conjecture upon the 4 or 5 of the Letters here exhibited March the 7th 1674 5 William Rice Lady D. York Patch Arlington Brother D. York Trees Great men Lord Treasurer Ladys Sister The King Oake The Treasury Lady to be passively neutral c. D. York to be passive in the matter of dissolving Parl. Adversaries The Protestant party The two Trees Parl. and Protestant party Yorkshire and Dorset Atturnies Buckingham and Shaftesbury Bothoakes Lord Treasurer and L. Ladies Neece Duke of Monmouth The Aunt The Duke Octob. 20. 1674. Wife of Shaftesbury The Nonconformist Interest Without Date Dorc. Atturneys Letter Shaftesburys letter to Carlisle Gardiners brother The Duke The two trees The Parl. Protestant Religion or Protestant Relig. Property Ladys Sister The King Ladys house Romish Religion Plenipotentiary Lord Treasurer Champerty Court dissimulation or undermining My Friend D. Buckingham Ladies friend over the Dike The French King A Terme A Session of Parliament New Assize A New Parliament His Mistress The Popish Cause The Grand Jury The Parliament Men September 10. 1674. SIR I Have received yours dated August the 28th and if your Lady pleaseth with Confidence to retaine me in her Cause as you say she will she may rest most secure to be both Faithfully and Uncorruptibly served according to the old English Oath of an Attorney without Fear Favour or Affection from hence therefore I resolve not to stir upon no other bodies Call nor Fees untill I have her special Command to come up to Westminster and full Instructions how to move when I am there which must be your part to see done and prepared in the mean time because I would think a little thereupon between this and then since the impertinentest of officiousnesses is to pretend to be wiser in other folks concerns than they are themselves yet give leave to say that I doubt very much words will not be kept with her by those whom chiefly she doth depend on not to shrink in the day of Battle when bullets begin to fly thick and near and though my Brother Attorney of Dorchest and his whole packed jury saving two of the number who are my Cousin Germains originally are Cowards let not that comfort you at all for if you remember after Clinias was driven into the water he fought like a lyon besides the ills which they have already done to speak the plain truth cannot be safe but by attempting greater wherein the Ladies Neece if good care be not early taken will have a considerable portion I would you saw as I doe because of my Ladies former displeasure towards me which makes them lie at something an opener Garde with me in this particular then they doe perhaps with others of the same profession what postings and meetings there are up and down the Country about this matter to the exaltation of the Neece usque ad Coelum and to the crying down of the Aunt nay and to such an insolence is the little Atturny grown that when applications are made unto him from the Center of all these lines as you well observe and the man for whose sake I first fell into disgrace with the Lady to admit them into his Counsels and interests the urchin still answers quod cùm impiis non vult Conversatio and that he intends to doe his work not by such assistances sed solum ex pondere causae wherefore if any Champarty masculine or feminine of that kind could be proved in open Court it were not amiss but when the thing comes to the touch you 'l see that it will not abide the tryall nor bear water The giving of mony then is all I can apprehend to be dangerous in this Case with a Condition to exclude the Aunt out of the entaile because upon those terms no separate proviso can serve her turn onely conduce towards the invalidating the testimony of her witnesses and Friends I desire to here onely that you have gotten this note safe into your hands shew it unto my Lady at seasonable opportunities and ever esteem me without welt or guard Your faithfullest Friend and Servant William Rice October 20. 1674. I Have Received yours dated the 13th of this month these come to you by a secure hand else I would not venture to write out of paraboles The new Parliament is that which the Dorsetshire Attorney and all his Clients have now in chace Consultations are on foot how to frame addresses for it within the compass of the Law Tell our Lady from me that she hath but one point seriously to intend which is to make herself and not be denyed the Commission mediatrix of the Peace which France as well as Spain are more inclined towards than ever because of the unruliness of the German Confederates for should either the Duke of Buckingham or my Lord of Arlington get that Employment from her nay any one besides there is an end of her storie By reason if the new Parliament cannot be obtained to have their own Creatures trusted with this mediation is the onely hope they have left I mean the wife of Shaftsbury could they and their adherents be authours of the general peace upon the nick of this Conjuncture I am afraid France will not stick so close to the Lady as perchance she believeth they would since to my knowledg they are actually in treatie at present with those two persons whom I last named to this very purpose therefore you see in this cause I do not juggle nor regard either peculiar Interests or friendship for the Duke of Buckingham till he be at the brink of death will never be right to our Cause more both because he doth think the Lady underhand hath used him hardly in the matter of his late persecutions as also that most of our persuasion were in the contrivance of the petition which was delivered in Parliament against my Lady of Shrewsbury and him though perhaps both equally mistaken however I must be sincere always with you for so it is and if my Lord of Arlington can obtain the Commission aforesaid then a rope for the Pope and long live the house of Nassaw you see clearly I trust you therefore I am sure you will not suffer the integrity of a poor Country Cloathier to be abused I tell you again if they can get the acting of the Peace into their hands in one word they will be able to doe their work peractum agere and much better hilted than it was the
Mr. Coleman to make such strange Steps which must precipitate them into Destruction and above all they will attribute this to France So that Monsieur De Rouvigny is mightily ill satisfied with this Proceeding for it is most certain that the Persecution will be very Terrible against the Duke and the Catholicks and all the Jesuits and above all against France Translated by the Lord Ancram The following Letters were Written by Father Sheldon as he is commonly called Directed all at least except One to Mr. Coleman May 22th 1675. YOu will please Sir with these to receive my Thanks for Two of yours both which came to my hands since the departure of the last Ordinary The Proceedings of the Parliament are sufficiently suspected by the King of France And it were to be wish'd that Holland and the Confederates had not so much cause to flatter themselves that the Parliament may at last be able to effect any thing of that kind which is pretended I suppose Monsieur Rouvigny is not wanting on this Occasion to secure the Interest of the King of France I expect with impatience the Issue of the Ten days which are to produce something that you intend me for a Regallo I hope It will prove a Dissolution for a Prorogation would be of no Use Lord Treasurer I fear is not a Friend to the Catholicks and yet I am told That he has lately found the Endeavours of the Duke to have been of great use to him I shall not long trouble you with those Affairs her R. H. I hope will allow me to Address to her by your mediation and then I am sure the tender of my most humble Duty will be presented to her with Advantage June the 1st I Cannot omit to give you this Trouble to let you know that you have fully satisfied me as concerning the Ten days and I hope your next will add the certainty of it what the Issue may be of Dissolution you may possibly conjecture but I fear a Prorogation would leave all things in the same posture in reference to Religion and then it must needs go ill with the Catholicks but I hope the Duke will not be wanting to improve this occasion and Duke of Lauderdale will sure be of the same Opinion I will not answer for Lord Treasurer I sent you one lately for the Dutchess I cannot tell whether it has come to your hands I shall not fail to serve your Friends at Antwerp and possibly I may go shortly into those Parts and by the way find an opportunity to get an Answer to their Request I should be heartily glad of any occasion to serve you and to acknowledge your Kindness towards me which I esteem in a particular manner being bound upon that account to be always your most Obedient Servant There was not any Key found whereby the first and great part of the following Letter could be decypher'd but towards the end is written some ordinary Matter without Cypher It does not certainly appear whether this were written to Mr. Coleman or some other Person Paris June the 8th THe late Promotion of Cardinals does not please every where The Duke D'Estre Ambassador at Rome being admitted to a private Audience his Holiness having answered him to the point concerning the Dispute betwixt the Ambassadors and the Cardinal Patron was going to ring his Bell but the Ambassador hindred him and began to speak of the Promotion of Cardinals challenging the Pope to have promised him that the Bishop of Marseilles should be promoted to which his Holiness reply'd That he had never engaged his Promise to do it and that the Importunity of the Ambassadors did not at all advance those Pretensions and thereupon rung his Bell and when the Attendants came in the Ambassador said he had not finished his Audience and staid in the Chambre until the Company was about to retire and then advanc'd towards the Pope's Chair and began to press for further Satisfaction in that concern of the Ambassadors upon which the Pope rising up the Ambassador with both hands press'd him down to his Chair and the Pope thereupon told him he was Excommunicated This passage is thus recounted by the chief Officer of the Nuntio here who is now made Cardinal and has Orders from the Pope to complain of so rude a Proceeding Sir John Arundell sets forward on Tuesday by whom I shall write to several of my Friends I am yours from my whole Heart and must desire you to get me an Answer from Sir George Wakeman Paris the 25th of June Lect ' pro Rege THese are only to beg Sir your Excuse for not answering at this time the Particulars of your last Pacquet which I received and have perform'd your Commands in all respects I hope I shall hear often from you and that you will give me some Commissions to Monsieur Pompone when I shall be at a convenient distance to perform them I approve of all that you were pleas'd to write and am confident you hit the Design and hope you will give your Instructions in order to procure that it may be timely prevented The Duke will take I hope other Measures and then you will have some need of the King of France who methinks is not secure unless he advance what you propose Consult with your Friends and advise how France may be Instrumental towards it Limbourg is taken The Prince of Orange after his great Bravour Retreated to the other side of the River upon the appearance of 15000 Horse of the French Monsieur Turenne has Defeated Three Regiments of the Enemy and secur'd the Passage of the Bridge of Strasbourg I shall attend with impatience to receive some Commands from you Paris June the 29th 75. I Know not Sir by what mistake yours of the 3d came Yesterday to my hands with your last of the 14th Though I am at a great distance from Pompone yet if you think it convenient I shall find means to inform him of what you shall Judge fit to impart In your last I had no particulars and yet I have learn't from others that Lord Shaftsbury had not so cold a Reception as you intimate Was not the Duke interessed in it and if so Must it not prove of Consequence to the Catholicks and drive at the same design against the Protestants as is observed by you I am glad to perceive that you are so well with Monsieur Rouvigny and that you concur in Opinions France can never rely upon a sure Foundation till the Duke be able to Secure it and Monsieur Rouvigny I fear is not sufficiently persuaded that it is feasible to set the Duke in such a Posture and therefore it is not attempted But did the King of France interess himself in it much might be effected and to invite him to it it is requisite That he should be inform'd that all difficulties which oppose may easily be remov'd but the Cards are not yet shuffl'd when they are Dealt you will
opposite to ours but we must not despair God is mighty and the innocence of this poor miserable too evident to permit him to be abandoned of all the World If by your means you can gain the Emperour and the Pope to the Duke for his Assistance or to contribute something for the accomodating of the differences between his Friends of Spain and France which cannot give him any Succor because of the infortunate War in which they are ingag'd you will merit much of God and of all the Friends of the poor Catholicks who are reduced almost to despair and are tormented every day by their Enemies and will be constrained to fall every day under the burthen of their miseries if they are not upheld by some means Their condition and that of the Duke are alike in many things but do differ in this that they have many Enemies which may every of them in particular be against the Catholick Cause for the Parliament whereas the Duke being onely engaged for the others shall not be obliged to do any thing at least that he shall not be condemned by the Parliament all the others being of the same nature so that none shall attacque him in the last before this first is determined because that if the Process comes to be determined in his favour our Laws give him a great advantage against them which shall have the boldness to trouble him thereupon This is all that I can say at present of the Affair of the Duke and of the Catholicks which I recommend to you with all my heart assuring you that since Christianism there hath not been any Affair neither more to be pitied or more worthy of all the Cares and Zeal of good People than this of which I now speak to you If you have the same Sentiment you will take a great part in the Affairs of our Friends and you will endeavour to apply all the most proper Remedies to make them succeed From the French King's Confessor to Mr. Coleman Paris September 15. 1674. SIR I AM very much obliged to you for the Letter you were pleased to write me concerning my Sickness Lec ' pro Rege It was long and troublesome and that which troubled me most during the long continuance of it was to find my self unable to take care of that Affair you gave me a memorial of with as much diligence as I could wish But being after all arrived here I resolved to send an Extract of the Memorial because I was not able to carry it my self which has been very lucky thanks be to God as you will see by the Letter I write to his Royal Highness Sir William Throgmorton goes express with it I pray acquaint his Highness that this Knight has managed this Affair with all the Zeal Fidelity and Prudence possible that his Highness may remember him upon occasion as a Person much addicted to him For Mr. Bernard that stayes here and whom you have recommended I pray be not further concerned for him The first occasion that offers he shall find the Esteem I have for his Zeal and Wisdom and for the recommendation of his good Friends I am in the mean while Sir Your most humble and most obedient Servant J. Ferrier From Mr. Coleman to the Pope's Internuncio Aug. 21. 74. YOU expect that the Duke should let you know what your Friends can do for his Service Lec ' pro Rege I told you the last Week my Opinion concerning the Estate of the Pope in case the Process of the Parliament be judged to his disadvantage And I have likewise told you what Opinion all the World hath as to that matter that is to say that it was absolutely lost But for my part not being of so timorous a nature as others I do not believe so but am of opinion that it is not impossible to overcome our Adversaries in spight of all the confidence they have of Success But the Victory which I hope for is to be able to prevent the Business coming before the Parliament that it be not begun at all rather than to gain the point if it shall be brought upon the stage For the Fury of the Persecutors is such that they will make use of all means imaginable as well Evil as Just to gain their point And I have too much reason to suspect the Integrity of our Judges in that Affair for I plainly perceive they naturally incline to the side of our Adversaries And I dare put no confidence in the Assistance of the King after so many Demonstrations as he hath given us of his weakness as to that matter And it is from these three Causes that is to say the Fierceness of our Adversaries the Injustice of our Judges and the Weakness of the King that we are to expect surtable Effects So that we shall have very little hopes of success having so many Difficulties to contend with in case the Parliament should meet Wherefore it will be necessary to provide some Support among his Friends of your Acquaintance if his Affairs should be too far pusht to suffer him to be in quiet here All those who have had any Correspondency with him are at present in great suspence and in pain to know what Success the Business above-mentioned is like to have If the Duke succeeds in what he pretends to they will be more fix'd to him than ever if he fails all his Creditors fall upon him in a moment and he and his Catholick Associates will be absolutely ruin'd for it is he alone upon whom all the rest do intirely depend So that it is for him and his Affairs that all our Friends ought to employ their Care to keep him up that he may subsist We have none with us that regard the Merit but the Success of things So that if the Duke can happily disingage himself of those Difficulties wherewith he is now incumbred all the World will esteem him an able man and all People will intrust him in their Affairs more willingly than they have done formerly And the King himself who hath more influence on the East India Company than all the rest will not onely re-establish him in the Employment he had before but will put the Management of all his Trade into his hands By which means he will have opportunity to enrich himself and all his Catholick Associates with all their Correspondents So that 't is of great consequence that those who owe him the Sums of the Emperour and the Pope assist the Duke with a little Sum of Money to put him in a condition to re-establish himself in the Management of the King's Affairs and to endeavour to Compose the Differences between his two Friends of Spain and France So that they may be in a condition to support him in his just and worthy Design to begin and establish a new Traffick very advantagious to the whole World and particularly the Kingdom of England which at present is unhappily divided for want
Cussack in a small Vessel of 13 men had the boldness the last Week to take a Scotch Ship in our River near Sheerness and got off But the Yacht called the Merlin pursuing the said Cussack and took him so that he and his thirteen men are to be treated as Pirates Saturday last Sir Jonathan Atkins Governour of Barbadoes sailed from Portsmouth to take possession of his Charge His Majesty will go to New Market about the end of this Month to divert himself with Hunting Horse races and the other divertisements of the Place and Season Yesterday the Earl of Arlington took possession of his Charge of Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold his Majesty having delivered him the Staff and this day he hath complemented their Royal Highnesses and hath received the Visits and Congratulations of all his Relations and Grandees of the Court. Sir Joseph Williamson succeeds him in the Charge of Secretary of State for which he hath taken the ordinary Oath and hath this day taken his place in Council As for the Process of your Friend for which I was in great apprehension when I writ to you on the one and twentieth of the last Month it is at present as I hope in a better condition than formerly and although his Adversaries prosecute him with as much vigour and more confidence than ever nevertheless I do not doubt but the Lawyers of Mr. will find out some means to avert the danger for the present in deferring it at least for some Months and then it 's to be hoped that his Enemies will begin to hear reason and that those who had a Design to make use of this ill Conjuncture to satisfie their Malice under the specious pretext of obtaining their pretended Debts and securing their Trade will see perhaps that it is not so easie to maintain a Cheat and ruine by their tricks honest People supported by Justice and Innocence as they imagined after having got that point Your Friends the Emperour and the Pope will have a fair occasion of giving marks of their Friendship to Mr. by joyning their Credit and Interest to his to make the great Design which he hath so long meditated succeed to undermine the Intrigues of that Company of Merchants who trade for the Parliament and the Religion and to Establish that of the associated Catholicks in every place which may be done without any great trouble if the Emperour and the Pope will grant him their assistance and that Spain will not too obstinately oppose him as he hath hitherto done to his own prejudice of which I freely told you my Opinion in my last of the Third Instant A little time will now let us see the Trade of all Affairs of this nature more clearly than at present In the mean time you see the Confidence and Liberty I use with you c. From Mr. Coleman to the Internuncio Octob. 23. 1674. YOU agree with me Lec ' pro Rege that Money is the onely means of bringing the King into the Duke's Interest and of difingaging him from the Parliament and you must also agree with me that nothing can more promote the Interest of the Catholiek Party which is the principal Object of the Duke's Care and Affection and of the Hatred of the Parliament and which must hope or fear according as the one or the other of them increase in Power Now the Power would be unalterably established in the Duke if the King were resolved to give him his Assistance in one or two things so that if Money can prevail with him to act in the Duke's favour and to abandon the Parliament the Catholicks will find themselves at great ease about it And if that be the only way to gain the King that without him the Duke will be in great danger of being ruin'd and all the Catholicks with him it imports much to the Duke's Friends and to the Catholicks that nothing be omitted for the securing to them assistance of Mony as above mentioned But how shall one get it There 's the difficulty For my part I do not doubt notwithstanding the Discourse which we had together when I had the honour to speak with you upon this Subject and when we proceeded upon other Propositions than now we do but that the Pope may do it effectually if he think fit to employ his whole Power because Money which is intirely at his command is more than sufficient to make the Pretensions of the Duke and the Catholicks succeed besides that the Pope hath many other means to attain the favour of Money But before it be endeavoured to perswade the Pope to ingage himself in things of this nature he must first be made to understand that the assistance which he shall give the Duke shall be hindred from becoming ineffectual to the Catholicks either by the lightness of the King or by any other means and that it shall be so ordered as to produce infallibly or at least very probably the Effects which we wish for from it As for the first nothing in the World is more certain than that the King has a good inclination towards the Duke and the Catholicks and would joyn himself willingly and inseparably to their Interests if he did not apprehend some danger from such a Union which however he would not have any cause to fear if he found their Interest and consequently their Power so far advanced above that of their Adversaries that they should neither have the Power nor the Boldness to contest any thing with them or with him upon any matter that concerned them which he could see in a very little time if we could perswade him to treat roundly with Sir Will. Throckmorton and to do two or three things besides which would necessarily follow the first and which he could not easily avoid doing and I am certain Mony could not fail of perswading him to it for there is nothing it cannot make him do though it were as much to his prejudice as this we endeavour to perswade him to will be to his Advantage To convince you that the Duke and his Friends would have so much the Advantage in their Trade over their Competitors in case they might be assisted by Money that there would be nothing for the King to apprehend either of immediate loss or Collateral Damage in present or to come it will be enough that you consider the infinite augmentation of Credit which they have already gain'd by the bare suspending of their Suit for a little time onely for if that has been capable of advancing their Interest to such a degree consider I beseech you how one definitive Sentence in their savour must needs establish both their Reputation and real Power It would do it to that degree that I dare say not one man of those who now balance betwixt them and their Adversaries or that seem to be even of their Enemies Parry believing the Advantage of the Suit on their side would dare to cross or
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I Am not at all surprized at what I hear of Lord Treasurer and Lord Lauderdail but should have bin much had they done otherwise than they have done let us remember Dr. Creytons Cat and we never will confide in them nor rely so much on them as that any thing they can do shall be able to dismay us I hope the Duke is not at all by what has hapned yet Throckmorton has done what has bin in his power with Pompone the whole business as he hath told you in his two former Letters is put into Rouvigny his hands and truly as much as appeared to Sir William Throckmorton with auspicous circumstances enough it is therefore now between the Duke and Rouvigny for it seems to Throckmorton that the thing must be done by Throckmorton or that they have not a design of doing it at all and if it should happen to be the later for Jesus sake be not dejected at it but on the contrary encourage and comfort the Duke all you can for on my Soul and Conscience without affecting the Preacher I dare confidently utter my opinion that God intends it for his good and that if he pleases but now to make use of those rare vertues of courage and constancy with which Heaven has indued him all this will turn to his glory and advantage My humble opinion in this case then if I might give it that if the King of France shall still continue to dodge and give the Duke no vigorous assistance for Dissolving the Parliament that then the Duke shall not continue to shuffle between the Parliament Dissolved and the Parliament as I have given you my Reasons in my former Letters but in Gods name let the Parliament proceed and prosecute his Suit it is true this is not the way one would have chosen if the French King would have been perswaded to understand his own interest but if that cannot be what great prejudice can accrew to the Duke by the Parliament none in the world say I if he pleases but with magnanimity and scorn to shake off those little wretches and their Counsels whom he hath with too much patience hitherto suffered to bait him continually to stoop and sneak to the Parliament and will resolve never to receive them again that have once betrayed him but on the other side put on a countenance but above all a mind full of noble and vertuous resolution and courage which will make him look boldly upon his worst and make good use of his best fortune I say if he pleases but to do this and besides shew all by the regulation of his Family as the vertuous conduct of his own person how much he abhors and detests the debauchery of the Kings house which has made it so odious to all the Nation and the world he will find that he will have all the Wise Sober good people and such as are worth having as well Protestants as Catholicks on his side and he shall live to see Lord Treasurer and D. of Lauderdail and Lord Arlington and all the rest of that crue knock themselves to pieces with the Parliament and his resolution and courage and vertuous behaviour will not only keep the Parliament at a bay but will keep him also in his bounds too For it is by the King his stooping to the Parliament the prejudice and dis-reputation will in great measure redound upon the Duke that the Duke is to apprehend damage from now this the Duke his resolution will in great measure prevent by keeping the Parliament in some sort within his limits and it will over and above when Lord Arlington and Lord Treasurer and D. of Landerdail shall have bruised one another and be at last all crusht by the Parliament necessitate the King to throw himself into the Dukes Arms who by that time will not only be strong in reputation but in reality too by the conjunction with him of all and generous men of whatsoever Party with which then he shall usefully be able to serve the King and himself for be not perswaded that the Protestants and Catholicks make a difference in this point but between such as are Rogues and design a Faction And to shew you that this opinion is not only speculative but that I can give you a proof that the Dukes cause by what is hapned yet is not at all lost or deemed desperate in the opinion of _____ men if you find that the Duke is disposed to take this course and this way defend his Birthright his Honour and his Conscience altogether I will then make you a Proposition of a number of persons who you will not doubt have honour and courage by this their resolution and I assure you are reckoned amongst the soberest and wisest part of the Nation most Protestants or are at least in shew and 4000 l. or 5000 l. a year apiece who ask or expect no Reward or Offices but onely ask that the Duke will give them assurance that he will not be perswaded hereafter to abandon his own interest and them and they will give him all the assurance on their sides desire that themselves and their fortunes shall sink and swim with him and these are such as I dare assure shall perform their promise and not do as Lord Treasurer and D. of Lauderdail and some of them perhaps have good interest with the Parliament too that is are of the same Families we are of his Cabal but I am engaged upon my honour not to discover them till I know the Duke will take that course that they may be useful to him for they are unwilling as you will believe they have reason to expose themselves and fortunes and do the Duke no service neither for to deal plainly with you they are so afraid of some that the Duke has about him who they say betray him and would do them so too that they by no means dare discover themselves what is in their hearts they are for the Dukes cause and his disposition which keeps multitudes of others in the same suspence say they for they all avow that it is not his being for the Catholicks startles them they ask but the Duke to be resolved to continue governing himself with vertue and moderation to throw off such people as they say are about him and betray him and then give them his word and they will stick by him against Lord Arlington and Lord Treasurer and Landerdail and the Parliament and who he pleases I do not doubt but the Duke is courted now by the Lord Arlington his Party and some of the Parliaments too but if ever he receives any that have betrayed he will go nigh to run the King his fortune that is always abused by Knaves when they see it for their purpose and never trusted nor relyed on by honest men I had yours of the 4th just now Mr. Boteman sets out on Sunday A Paper Intituled INSTRUCTIONS SEeing that his most Christian Majesty was