went to the Prince, and gave him an account of my letters. I afterwards stood by him while he was at supper. I wrote to my Lord Sunderland and Sir Henry Capel for a yacht to be here on the 10-20th. I received some letters.
THE EARL OF HALIFAX TO MR. SIDNEY.
I have been indisposed and am so still, which, though it be some excuse for me that I have been so slow in answering your last, yet it must not keep me any longer from doing that which I have always so much mind to do. I do not wonder that what hath happened here lately set everybody's thoughts at work where you are; and no doubt till these riddles are cleared, we must expect nobody will be in temper to take any measures with us. But my Lord of Sunderland hath from time to time acquainted you with the state of our world, and by that enabled you to lessen if not destroy the fears that have been raised in Holland upon the late occasions, and when the things are executed which are intended, I hope the
