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LETTER XXXVI. Hague, Iune 4. S. N. 69▪ (Book 36)
SIR,
I omitted to acknowledge by the last Post, one I had then received from you of the 13th past, because I could then add nothing to what I writ to my Lord Ar∣lington, having not communicated the pa∣pers you were pleas'd to send me, upon the Subject of the Dutch Peace at Macas∣sar. I have since done it, and discoursed with Monsieur de Witt upon them, who has taken them into his hands, to com∣municate with the East-India Company, and receive their Answer, which I thought best to attend, before I put in any Memo∣rial to the States, and so made it publick; because I find great use is made by the French, of the matters depending between us and the Dutch to possess other Princes, and especially those in Germany, with an Opinion of the unsteddiness of our com∣mon Counsels, in the pursuit of the Trip∣ple Alliance, which may be of ill conse∣quence to the general Affairs of this con∣juncture: For unless we are forced to fall