And another
thing, about his pressing for the reduction of the charge of
Tangier, which they would have put off to another time; "But,"
says he, "the King suffers so much by the putting off of the
consideration of reductions of charge, that he is undone; and
therefore I do pray you, Sir, (to his Royal Highness,) that when
any thing offers of the kind, you will not let it escape you."
Here was a great bundle of letters brought hither, sent up from
sea, from a vessel of ours that hath taken them after they had
been flung over by a Dutchman; wherein, among others, the Duke of
York did read superscription of one to De Witt, thus--"To the
most wise, foreseeing, and discreet, These, &c.;" which, I
thought with myself, I could have been glad might have been duly
directed to any one of them at the table, though the greatest men
in this kingdom. The Duke of York, the Lord Chancellor, my Lord
Duke of Albemarle, Arlington, Ashly, Peterborough, and Coventry,
(the best of them all for parts,) I perceive they do all profess
their expectation of a peace, and that suddenly.
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