LXIV. Marlborough au Grand-Pensionnaire

pie se a Ru Mr. Crow ($) that will have the honour to give you this, is the Gentleman the Queen sent to Catalonia

(*)Dispatches, EL 179,570, 2 (+) Lettre du Duc à Lord Halifax, 14 Août 1706. Dispatches, III. 83.

($) Crowe, Coxe, III. 35 suiv. 88, 75. Dispatches, IT. 574. Mitford Crow, Wagenaar, Vaderl. Historie, 17e Vol. p. 267.

to prepare them for the reception of King Charles. He has a letter from King Charles to the States, and a proposale for a loon of 100 m. pistoles. — I have desir’d him to do nothing til he first acquaints you with his orders, and receive your derections.

Having this safe hand I send you the inclos’ d; when you have read it, Î desire you will burn it, and that you will be so kind and just to me, as never to say one word of what [ now write to you, which is, that this country will before the month of October be all disoblig’d. For, instead of doing business with care to please, every thing is done with a hie (*) hand. For my own part, that am oblig’d to be with the army, I[ can do no good, so that in consience I shall be oblig’d to desire the Queen she will impower some body att Bruxelles, that may act with your Deputys there. Besides T shal be asham’d to have my name in a government that must end in confusion. What [I now send is for your information; and were [ with you, one half hour, I think I cou’d convince you, that we are doing our utmust to make the people of quallity and all others, wish the return of the French. Âs soon as you have read this, [ conjure you to burn this letter, as well as the inclos’d; for I will chearfully venture my life to serve you, but I will not have disputes with any body. I wou’d not have you mistake me, for it is impossible for any body to be better satisfied then I am with the Deputys of the army; and the man, that I think spoiles all at Bruxelles, is very much my friend, and very capable for many things (+); but his temper is to

(*) High.

(f) Le Trésorier-Général Hop. Le Duc écrivant à Don F. B. de Quiros, (17 Juin 1706) l'appelle ,,.notre bon ami M. Hop,” & loue ,,son

haulty for such a government as this aught to be, especially ait first. — I am with truth,

Your most obedient humble servant,

Marlborough.