XLV. Marlborough au Grand-Pensionnaire

Helchin, Jully 26 1706.

| Sir,

I do not trouble you with the account of what passes at the siege, believing that General Salish gives a con-

(*) Lettre au Prince de Bade, 10 Juillet 1706, Dispatches II. 685. Le Prince n'avait pas même félicité Marlborough à l’occasion de la victoire de Ramilies. — Dispatches, III. 18, 19. (24 Juillet 1706.) 22—24.

stant account. — Lä4 Hallifax has desir'd of me (*) to know if you think his return to the Hague is necessarie for the forwarding the ireaty for the succession, and accordingly he will take his resolution of returning to the Hague, or going for England by Ostende. — I did some time ago write to Mons. Slingerland concerning an allarme Mons. de Dopf had, about the government of Mastrick, but Mons. Slingelands answere put him at ease; for indeed it woüd be very hard to mortifie him in a campagne in which he has very fully done his duty (+). That which makes me give you this trouble now, is that he has been told, that it was in the last meeting in the States of Holland under consideration. | I am with truth,

Sir,

Your most obedient humble servant, Marlborough.