bassador's proceedings. Yesterday they were only in committee, where every body's mind was known, but no resolution taken. He told me at dinner that the States were separated till Wednesday: that every thing went for our advantage, though they would say nothing directly—that the actions now in the East India Company were 431. I did not stir out all day. I writ to my Lord Sunderland, Sir Wm. Temple, and Mr. Godolphin. At nine o'clock, the Duke of Monmouth[1] came, with Mr. Langley and Godfrey; he complained of my friends extremely, and told me he intended to go to Copenhagen.
MR. SIDNEY TO THE EARL OF SUNDERLAND.
My Lord,
I would not write to you this morning, because I was in hopes I might before this time have known some resolution of the States—but they separated to-day about twelve o'clock, without doing any business (some of their members being absent),
- ↑ He told me, among other slighting things he said of the King, that he one day told my Lord Oxford, that if he could be well as long as he lived, he cared little what happened afterwards. "Since that," saith he, "I had no hopes of him."—Orig. Note.
