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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