TUSDAY, June 10.
Take one of the 9. instant from the Hague, Stilo novo
SIR,
The great Assembly having adjourned is not yet met again, as it
was said they would, and that they would have sent the Articles
of Treaty to your Ambassadors (which they say are in number 36,)
but it will be now the next before it can be done; therefore, since
my last, there hath nothing passed between their Lordships and the
States.
The Grandees here are the same men still falling very short of what
is by you demanded of them; are they hope you will be contented
with less, having much to say against your Propositions
The providence of Holland and Zealand seem to be for you; but
Gelderland, Friesland, Utrecht, and Over rssel, are backward Nevertheless
they of Holland labor do somahatto purpose before they
part with your Ambassadors. In the mean time, nothing is done, faire
words are given, and now and then a visit by one or two of the Deputies
of Holland that are not gone home.
It is strange to consider, how that every Town here in the Country
seeks to make it self great by the undoing of another. If they
proceed this way, they are in the way to ruin If they agree not a
bout their own affaires, what union then can be expected among
them touching others affaires, when they all meet in the great Assembly.
This may serve you so observation.
All the other Towns do envy Anisterdims greatress saying, that
they of Amsterdam do seek to make themselves a Province, and being
jealous over them, a if they feared their intention were to make
Amsterdam like Venice, the apital and commanding City, that
should dominere over all the rest Howsoever things go, I could
wish with all my soul, that a firm League were made betwixt you
and Holland; for, that would be a leading Card to the rest; but what
these men intend to do, the Lord only knows.
They of Amsterdam excuse themselves for not entertaining the
Lord St. John, when there; saying, it was not their fashion, unless
his Lordship had given notice before-hand of his coming which his
Lordship had not done, and therefore took it only, as if he bad come
privately to see the Town.
The Duke of York goes from hence to morrow, cron [unr], for
Breda, and from thence for France, where he is plemised a yeer
pension from that Court. But others there are that say, he is chosers
General of the Scots and English there, with them to go for [unr]
But the truth is, he is bound for France.