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9th. To White Hall; and here do hear, by Tom Killigrew and Mr.
Progers, that for certain news is come of Harman's having spoiled
nineteen of twenty-two French ships, somewhere about the
Barbadoes, I think they said; but wherever it is, it is a good
service and very welcome. To the Bear-garden, where now the yard
was full of people, and those most of them seamen, striving by
force to get in. I got into the common pit; and there, with my
cloak about my face, I stood and saw the prize fought, till one
of them, a shoemaker, was so cut in both his wrists that he could
not fight any longer, and then they broke off: his enemy was a
butcher. The sport very good, and various humours to be seen
among the rabble that is there.
10th. To St. James's, where we all met and did our usual weekly
business with the Duke of York. But, Lord! methinks both he and
we are mighty flat and dull to what we used to be when Sir W.
Coventry was among us. Met Mr. Povy; and he and I to walk an
hour or more in the Pell Mell, talking of the times. He tells me
among other things, that this business of the Chancellor do breed
a kind of inward distance between the King and the Duke of York,
and that it cannot be avoided; for though the latter did at first
move it through his folly, yet he is made to see that he is
wounded by it, and is become much a less man than be was, and so
will be: but he tells me that they are, and have always been,
great dissemblers one towards another; and that their parting
heretofore in France is never to be thoroughly reconciled between
them.
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