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Mercurius politicus, Number 72, 16th-23rd October 1651 E.643[24]

on this side the Seas in a Duch man of war being accompanied
with the Duke of Buckingham, my Lord Wilmot and some
[unr] eported he is landed about [unr]chev[unr]ling, a little
[unr] on the Sea-coast, being a mile from the Hague; ha[unr]
Sea-mens cloaths on, and that he had sent to his sister
the Princess Royal for cloaths and relief. Whether he will
dare to come to the Hague in pulick or no, we cannot tell;
for, as yet he hath not appeared there, as I am just now informed
from thence: The main Quere, at present is, what
the Hogen Moghens will do, who will lay their pates together,
whether they will suffer him to come in or no, or what
reception they will make him; for it is they that must help
him at this dead lift; for, his sister the Princess Royal hath
not wherewithal to maintain and furnish him again, she being
hard put to it to get so much as will serve for the keeping
of her own Court, which must be reduced to a letter number
then now they are, for she is to keep no more then needs
must. Therefore he is like to fare but poorly if the States do
not supply his wants, which are now more urgent then ever
yet they were. They must be fain to cloath him from top to
toe. We hear that the Mother and the Daughter are now
reconciled by means of the little Queen of England who
by a most submissive and kind letter to the old Princess of
Orange, hath perswaded her to have a care to her daughter,
and withall counselled her Daughter to show her duty to her
mother[unr]in law; how their affairs will be further disposed
of, time will shew. The two combatant Princes of Brandenburg
and Newburg are fully agreed. The Religion is to
be maintained according to the Treaty at Munster. Quando
delirant Reges, plectuntur Achivi: None hath suffered more
then the poor Pesants, who are utterly undone by
this needless war. They have brought hungry Harpys into
their Country, and now they know not how to be rid of
them. The Lorrainers will not quit the Country for nothing;
for where soever they come, it must go very hard
with them, but they will have their share out of it. The
Emperor is left sole Gardian over the Duke of Bavaria's
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