Joachimi to the States General.

[ From the Original in the Eoyal Archive! at the Hague ; File, Engeland. ]

High and Mighty Lords!

My Lords! Your High Mightinesses have been able to gather from my despatch of the last of July, the latest informationI possessed respecting the matter I had submitted to some Lords, in

' Mr. de Zwaan says, of the Dutch M3. -- This piece " ia evidently a translation from the English." Ed.

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accordance with your High Mightinesses' letter of the xii"" preceding. On last Sunday, one of the best informed Lords, an Earl, came to me, who said a misfortune had occurred; that the Hollanders had captured and sent to Zealand twelve or thirteen ships that designed to enter Dunkirk under convoy of a ship of war, which the Earl of Warwick^ had granted them. And that the said Earl, without waiting the opinion of Parliament, had detained three Dutch merchant vessels, which were bound for the Mediterranean ; then, that he hoped the aforesaid three ships would be discharged the next day, and requested that I should represent this in most favorable terms beyond sea. Thereupon I said to the aforesaid Lord, that I was willing to do whatever might tend to the preservation of friendship between both States and Nations. But that I had received neither letter nor complaint respecting what precedes. On the following day, I acquainted another Lord of the Upper House of what the aforesaid Earl had communicated to, and requested of, me; and added thereto, that, with his Lordship's permission, 1 should come at noon, or send to inquire what had been done regarding this affair. He said, I should send and he would communicate the resolution to me. I received the answer