Letters written by Sir William Temple during his being ambassador at The Hague, to the Earl of Arlington and Sir John Trevor, Secretaries of State to K. Charles II wherein are discovered many secrets hitherto concealed / published from the originals, under Sir William Temple's own hand ; and dedicated to the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Littleton, Speaker of the House of Commons, by D. Jones, Gent.

LETTER XXIII. Hague, Ianuary 29. S. N. 69. (Book 23)

SIR,

I Am to ask your pardon for not acknow∣ledging one from you of the 19th past, by the last Ordinary, and I this day find my Debt encreased by the Honour of one of the 23d, by which I am glad to hope there will be some facility given on their side, as well as it is pursued here by all my Endeavours, towards the Composure of the Points we differ in upon the Article of the Marine Treaty that has broken our Heads so much and so long. The Deputies, de∣sign'd to be sent hither from the East-India Company, instructed in that Business, are expected here this Week, and till we see the Overtures that will be made, or Argu∣ments that will be used by them, I must su∣spend my Judgment of what the Issue will be; God send me out of this Bryar, and I never hope to fall into such another.

Monsieur de Witt, and the rest here, will be very well pleased, if the King think sit to let Monsieur Sylvius pass by Lunenburgh; and I shall make them sensible, that if it

be so resolved, it is wholly in complyance with them.

They would have been glad likewise if my Lord Carlisle had had leave to call at Denmark, though upon a private Visit, in confidence that would have drawn on a Di∣spatch from that Court to England, and consequently a Composure of those Un∣kindnesses, which France makes use of to the engaging that Crown more intirely to themselves: But these People though per∣haps the best Judges of Interest, are the worst of Honour and of all the Punctillio's that depend upon it.

I hear nothing of my Lord Carlisle, since he parted from Amsterdam▪ but expect Mr. Thynn here every Day, who, I hear, intended to meet him at Hamburgh, and then come straight hither.

I will not trouble you with the Repeti∣tion of any thing I have written in other Letters this Post, which I kn••w you will have your share of, nor with enlarging upon the Professions of my being,

SIR,

Your most Faithful Humble Servant, W. Temple.