She saw "The Royal Charles"
brought into the river by them; and how they shot off their great
guns for joy, when they got her out of Chatham river.
19th. One tells me that, by letter from Holland, the people
there are made to believe that our condition in England is such
as they may have whatever they will ask; and that so they are
mighty high, and despise us, or a peace with us: and there is
too much reason for them to do so. The Dutch fleet are in great
squadrons everywhere still about Harwich, and were lately at
Portsmouth; and the last letters say at Plymouth, and now gone to
Dartmouth to destroy our Streights' fleet lately got in thither:
but God knows whether they can do it any hurt, or no.
22nd. Up to my Lord Chancellor's, where was a Committee of
Tangier in my Lord's roome, where he sits to hear causes, and
where all the Judges' pictures hung up, very fine. But to see
how Sir W. Coventry did oppose both my Lord Chancellor and the
Duke of York himself, about the Order of the Commissioners of the
Treasury to me for not paying of pensions, and with so much
reason, and eloquence so natural, was admirable.
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