LETTER CCLXXVII. To the Same.
MADAM,
THE Count of Cameran, who is returning to your High∣ness, will particularly tell you the Passion with which I will serve you upon the present occasion. I conjured him to beseech you, by the Consideration of your own Interest, not to suffer yourself to be ensnared by the Artifices of the Spaniards, who have no other Design, than to delude all those with whom they treat with fair Appearance. I always apprehended that which I now perceive from their Malice, and have often represented it to those who belong'd to your Highness. I hope their wicked Designs will not have the in∣tended Effect; at least, I can assure you, Madam, that the King will omit nothing, which may depend upon his Power, to defeat them; and that, if the Zeal which I always had for your Highness's Service were capable of Augmentation, it