The
King went to her, she must first come and view them: and so she
come, and the King went to her, and all friends again. He tells
me she did, in her anger, say she would be even with the King,
and print his letters to her. So putting all together, we are
and are like to be in a sad condition. We are endeavouring to
raise money by borrowing it of the City; but I do not think the
City will lend a farthing. Sir G. Carteret and I walked an hour
in the church-yard, under Henry the Seventh's Chapel, he being
lately come from the fleet; and tells me, as I hear from every
body else, that the management in the late fight was bad from
top to bottom. That several said that this would not have been
if my Lord Sandwich had had the ordering of it. Nay, he tells me
that certainly had my Lord Sandwich had the misfortune to have
done as they have done, the King could not have saved him. There
is, too, nothing but discontent among the officers; and all the
old experienced men are slighted. He tells me to my question,
(but as a great secret,) that the dividing of the fleet did
proceed first from a proposition from the fleet, though agreed to
hence.
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