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LETTER IV: Hague, Octob. 22. S. N. 68. (Book 4)
SIR,
WHEN I have acknowledged the Fa∣vour of yours of the 8th, I will make no other Return to the great Civili∣ties of it, since there is no sort of Equality in that Commerce between us; All I can say upon that Subject being but what is due from me to your Office as well as to your Person; Whereas the least Advances you please to make in that kind, are more than I can pretend to, and so carry the weight of Obligations with them; and therefore if you please, having acquitted my self of the Ceremonies due to the change of your Station in my last, I shall in this pay what I owe to that charge of Affairs, which my Lord Arlington told me, was left upon your Hands in his Absence.
I know not whether the Business of the Marine Treaty be forgotten, or no; But I never heard one word of it since I trans∣mitted Monsieur de Witt's Reflections up∣on it to my Lord Arlington, who sent me word it was left to your care. I am of