Letters are received from the Commissioners, who went on the part of both houses of Parliament to the King, that they had presented, on Saturday evening, the petition with which they had been dispatched, to his Majesty, who had taken it for examination. I have not yet learned the answer. If the Parliamentarians will be reconciled to the King, private complaints of the people against the Dutch, and petitions for the improvement of trade will undoubtedly be brought forward and examined in Parliament. should therefore (under gracious correction) be It

seasonably considered, how the issue of letters of reprisal, or the passage of resolutions affecting the trade, is to be prevented ; from which serious inconveniences must arise. Among the English complainants, are the inhabitants of New England, as your High Mightinesses will be able to perceive from a Memorial hereunto annexed, handed me by my Lord Seie.^ The Earl of Warwick had already handed me a similar one in English. Some of ' RoBEnT Devereux, 3(1 Earl of Essex, was appointed to the command of the army, against the Scotch Covenanters, in 1639; afterwards Lord Chamberlain, and in 1641, Lieutenant of the Kingdom south of the Trent. In the following year he was dismissed from his office of Lord Chamberlain, whereupon the I'arliament appointed him to the command of their forces. He was then declared a traitor by the King, against whom he fought with various success, until the year 1645, when he resigned his commission. He died in September, 1646. ' WiLLLOi Russell, 5th Earl, and 1st Duke of Bedford, K. G., was born in 1614 created Marquess of Tavistock and Duke ;