From Paris, March 15. S. N.
The Publick rejoycings for the Peace are continued in all
the great Towns, and Cities of this Kingdom; and the
Towns which were by the Treaty to be evacuated, are rendred
on both sides, so that the next thing in expectation is
the marriage, as the means to compleat our Peace and make
it lasting.
His Majesty intends (as its beleeved by some) to reduce
Orange to his own disposal, and to that end to repair thither:
The occasion of it hath been a difference betwixt the old
Princess Dowager of Orange and the Princess Royal, about
the appointing of a Governor for Citadel, during the
Minority of the Young Prince; and tis like his Majesty, as
Arbitrator, may end the controversie.
The Marshal Duke of Grammont is gone towards Bayonne
to marry his Daughter to the Duke of Valentinois,
and afterward to finish the preparations for the interview of
the two Courts in April, the 20 of that moneth being a
day designed for the arival on the Frontire.
Guild-hall London, March 19.1659.
This day in the Forenoon, a Common-council was holden, and a Committee
of three Aldermen, and six Commoners were appointed to present a
Petition that afternoon to the Council of State, which is as followeth.
To the Right Honorable the Council of State by Authority of Parliament,
The humble Petition of the Lord Major, Aldermen,
and Commons of The City of London:
Shewing,
THat the late Parliament having brought these Nations into
some prospect of the desired Settlement by a Free Parliament,
and left this Honorable Council, with the Lord General,
to carry on the Government in the Interval ; Your Petitioners
finding the Welfare and present Peace of these Nations wrapt up
in the Safety of your Persons, and freedom of Your Councils, do
humbly Pray.
That it would please your Honors to remove your Residence