dispatched a way the Heer Beverning before the
rest, that no time might be lost. They cannot
but he with you all by this time, the great hope
is, that the English will be kinde, and forget all
the treachery of this people, both in design and
action, and all the invasions made upon the seas
and rights of England, and that you will wave
the three points which were delivered to the
late Lord Pauw; or else if this cannot be effected,
the hope is, you will be so mild, as not to
follow the victory, but give them time and leave
to provide another Fleet; with which if they
can but gain a victory, they will soon teach you
how to use it; even as the Turk would use
the Venetiars, if he could master them in the
Gulph.
For this purpose they are very busie, making
all the preparations that ever they can, to recruit
their Fleet; and they take a course also to reform
it; for some of their Captains that did
not their duty in the late fight, have been made
examples; and others of them are ordered to
be tryed by a Councel of war. One thing is remarkable
to set forth their meaning, that at the
very same time that that they sent now into England,
they dispatcht away fresh instructions to Bortel
their Ambassador at Paris, to use all means to
make up a firm Alliance with France, and (to
make way) they have; Written a very slender report
of the English gains by the late victory,
both into France and Denmark. And for the bac[unr],
king of all, it is given out, that their, Fleet is
made up 80 sail already; which with those addition