they take with us, and are more afraid of angering France than they were before, and Monsieur Van Benningheu told me I might be sure it would be so. They say Monsieur Louvoy asked Monsieur Bord whether the States would not be on their side, in case they came to a rupture with Spain. Monsieur Van Beuninghen told me that nobody would dare to propose a new alliance with us, for, if France should be displeased at it, and any ill accident should happen upon it, the person who advised it would certainly be pulled to pieces by the people; that he believed nobody would doubt his affection for England, but he told me plainly he could not advise it in the condition we were now in. Every body that comes in are in a maze at the Duke's going. They said, at the French ambassador's, that he was poisoned, for he complained of a great pain in his belly.
2nd.I was with Monsieur Van Beuninghen this morning, when he told me, that it was some discontented English that came over hither that did all the mischief. In the afternoon I went to see
par terre et par mer.' This was very rough. The King's answer was—'Je me ferai craindre aussi à mon tour:' but he was scarce as good as his word."—Burnet's History, i., 139.
