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not in the least doubt of their agreeing to our Proposition. Wherefore since Monsieur Paquena assures us that the present Number of the Miquelets amounts to three thousand, we entreat your Highness to give Orders that a Thousand Men may come immediately to the Camp, to be in readiness to work with us in the Trenches; and that your Highness will think how they may be relieved; and we shall take Care to lodge them either in the Houses, or some other way under our Tents and Sails. I desire your Highness Answer being very sincrely, &c.
At another Council of War the 28th of August, all these Resolutions was overthrown by the Opinion of the Generals, and it was agreed to embark the Troops for Savoy; but King Charles taking an unalterable Resolution to stay by his Catalans, from whom he had received all the Marks of Loyalty that were yet possible for them to shew, and to whom he had promis'd so much: This his Majesty's firmness, I say, produced a Change in the Measures; nothing was more grievious to him, than the Thoughts of abandoning a People who had shewn such a voluntary Attach to his Service, and from whom he alone expected to make his way to the Spanish Throne, His Majesty assayed every way upon the Temper of the Generals, and even the most earnest Intreaties were not wanting. The Prince of Hesse was likewise ordered to write to Sir Cloudsley Shovel, from whom his Majesty had yet some Hopes.
Honourable Sir,
HIS Catholick Majesty being in the greatest Trouble in the World to find my Lord Peterborough, again resolved to leave this Enterprize, hath his only recourse to you, hearing his Majesty declared
