of good Officers to Command them.
That Generall Leven, and Lievetenant-Generall David Lesley are
denied the Pensions which formerly they received from the Crowne of
Swedeland, the Reason; because they have syded with Argyle, &c. against
their native King, in which respect they are not thought fit to live
any longer upon the Bounty, or be admitted into the service of any King
or Prince whatsoever : Whereupon they have procured Letters of recommendation
from the Estates of Scotland to the Queene of Sweden,
and dispatcht one Breermer over with them, to desire their Pensions may
bee paid and continued; but it will bee to little purpose, for Montrosse
(as it is supposed) hath used meanes to debarre them of that, and meanes
to deprive them of their Lives too, without they bee the more conformable
in time, &c.
By Letters elsewhere, wee are informed that Oneale is made Generall
of all the Irish-Forces, and this with the approbation of Ormond : That
hee is made Earle of Tyrone; and that hereupon all the Kingdome is united
to withstand and Roote out those barbarous-Pagans that have invaded
them, &c. That Prince Rupert is set out to sea with seaven
of his best Shipps, having left the rest to secure the Harbour of Kingsale,
&c.
The Juncto have of late driven on a subtle Designe of complying with
the Scots; so far, as that they were about dispatching Commissioners to
treat with them upon all matters in difference; but whilest they were in
doing this, news came that his Majesty and the Scots were agreed, they
having bated him much of what they formerly pressed him with, and He
voluntarily granted them other things for their owne securitie that they
did not expect, which hath wonderfully attracted the hearts of the
People and put them upon strong Resolutions of Restoring him to his
Dominions, &c.
Which hath so exasperated the Regicides, that now they are preparing
to make up the full number of the Army, according to the Establishment,
that is, to add so many to those remayning here, as are gone with Crumwell
into Ireland, and this under the notion of Auxiliaries and the pretence
of awing the Levellers.
From whom they apprehend such apparent danger, that yet they account
it not safe nor seasonable to bring Mr. Lilburne to his Tryall; and
therefore they have since thought fit to deferre the time of his Tryall,
under pretence that the Judges appointed to fit upon him cannot bee
in readynesse by the day they had formerly appointed : however a Regiment
of Horse and another of Foote were appointed to secure the
Judges from Insurrections during his Tryall, and they as yet are not