Turk. This next week I intend to go down to the buoy of the Nore, to fee the fmall fquadron of fhips I have out, having ordered them to come thither for that purpose; and about the 24th of this month intend for Windsor, to ftay there the remaining part of the fummer. My troops are fill encamped at Hounflow. When Mr. Zuliften goes back he will give you an account of them."

King James to the Prince of Orange.-A dry answer to the Prince's congratulation on the birth of the young Prince.

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St. James's, July 22d, 1688.

I HAVE had yours by M. Zulestein, and who has, as well as your letter, affured me of the part you take on the birth of my fon; and would not let him return without writing to you by him, to affure you I fhall always be as kind to you as you can with reason expect."

King James's Queen to the Prince of Orange.-On the fame

fubject.

St. James's, July 24th, 1688. THE compliments Mr. Zuliftein made me from you, and the letter he brought me are so obliging, that I know not which way to begin to give you thanks for it. I hope he will help me to affure you that I am very fenfible of it, and that I esteem and defire nothing more than the continuance of your friendship, which I am fure shall always deferve one way mine, by being with all the fincerity imaginable truly yours.

M. R."

King James to the Prince of Orange.-The Turkish war.

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Windfor, August 31; 1688.

HAVE received yours of the 30th from Loo, and

by it find you had had the good news of the Elector of Bavaria's having paffed the Sane, and, I hope, the next letters from that army will bring the news of the taking of Belgrade. When the Emperor is once mafter of that place and Gradifca, he will have a very good frontier towards the Turks. This place of itself affords little news, for 'tis none now to tell you when the parliament is to meet, and till then we are to expect what news we have from your fide of the water."

King James's laft letter to the Prince of Orange.-The fame

fubject.

Windfor, September 17, 1688.

"I HAVE received yours of the 17th from the Hague, by which I find you were come back thither from a voyage you had made into Germany, to fpeak with fome of the Princes there. I was very glad to hear, by an exprefs which came to the Spanish ambaffador here, of the taking of Belgrade, which, with the taking of Gradiska, will fecure the Emperor's conquefts in thofe parts. I am forry there is fo much likelihood of war upon the Reyn; nobody wifhing more the peace of Chriftendom than myfelf. I intend to go to-morrow to London, and the next day to Chatham, to fee the condition of the new batteries I have made in the Medway, and my fhips which are there."

James's difavowal of d'Avaux's memorial at the Hague, and the imprisonment of Skelton, who had fuggefted it,

provoked

provoked the pride of Louis, and he left James to his fate. The following letter from Louis to Barillon both fhews his pique, and gives full evidence that there was no formal treaty between Louis and James.

Tranflation.

Letter from Louis the XIVth to Mr. Barillon.-Is piqued by James's difavowing d'Avaux's memorial.-No formal treaty between James and Louis.-In the Depot.

"MR.

September 30, 1688.

R. Barillon, Your letter of the 23d of this month informs me of the precautions the King of England takes to guard himself against an invasion by the Prince of Orange in England; and I am very glad to learn that he neglects nothing to make that Prince repent of fo unjust an enterprise; but I am, on that account, the more furprised at all the fteps the faid King takes at London and the Hague, to fhew that he had no part in the declaration which the Sieur d'Avaux made by my orders to the States General. He ought not to doubt that if any thing is capable to divert the Prince of Orange from paffing into England, it is the intereft which I fhew I take in all that regards the faid King; and though there is no treaty figned between me and him, nevertheless the ties of agreement fince his coming to the throne, have formed a more ftrict one than if ftipulated by a formal treaty; and moreover, whatever means I may have to repel, with my forces alone, all my enemies, I fhall always be very glad that the Princes who have any affection for my crown, fhould fhew hoftility to my enemies without my afking it of them; in fhort, in whatever light the declarations which the King of England has made to the States General are examined, there will always be found a weak,

a weakness capable of encouraging the Prince of Orange in his first defigns.

I approve also of the manner in which you have talked to the King of England and the Earl of Sunderland concerning the recall of Mr. Skelton; this envoy rather deferves a recompence, than a difgrace fo public as that of being obliged to return immediately to England to give an account of his actions."

King James to his dying hour complained of his enemics for alleging that there was a formal treaty between him and France, and affumed merit from his innocence of the charge: Aftrong inftance how the mind of man may impose upon itself. Many papers in this Appendix fhew that the connexion was ftricter between him and Louis than any formal treaty could create; and the words of Louis in this laft letter, prove that Louis thought fo.

Amongst Lord Dartmouth's notes on Bishop Burnet's History there is the following one:

Page 783. "The Duke of Chandos told me, as a thing he knew to be true, that the King of France wrote to King James to let him know that he had certain intelligence that the defign was upon England, and that he would immediately befiege Maftrick, which would hinder the States from parting with any of their force for such an expedition, but the secret must be kept inviolable from any of the minifters. Soon after the States ordered fix thousand men to be fent to Maftrick, upon which the King of France defired to know of King James if he had revealed it to any body, for he himself had to none but Louvois, and if he had betrayed him should treat him accordingly. King James's anfwer was, that he never told it to any body but Lord Sunderland, who he was very fure was too much in his intereft to have difcovered it. Upon which the King of France faid, he saw plainly that

King James was a man cut out for destruction, and there was no poffibility of helping him."

N° VII.

The Princess Anne's letters to her fifter immediately before the

revolution.

The Earl of Hardwicke was fo obliging as to give me the following curious notes from the Princess Anne's letters to her fifter, which were taken from the originals by the late Doctor Birch.

Doctor Birch's notes from the Princess Anne's letters to her

fifter.

Cockpit, Dec. 29, 1687. SORRY people have taken fuch pains to give fo ill a

character of Lady Churchill.... I believe there is nobody in the world has better notions of religion than she has. It is true, fhe is not fo ftrict as some are, nor does not keep fuch a buftle with religion; which I confefs, I think, is never the worse, for one fees fo many faints meer devils, that if one be a good Chriftian, the less fhew one makes, it is the better in my opinion. Then, as for moral principles, it is impoffible to have better; and without that, all the lifting up of hands and eyes, and going often to church, will prove but a very lame devotion. One thing more I must say for her, which is, that she has a true sense of the doctrine of our church, and abhors all the principles of the church of Rome; fo that as to this particular, I affure you fhe will never change. The fame thing, I will venture, now I am on this fubject, to fay for her Lord; for though he is a very faithful fervant to