He was sent ambassador to France, and afterwards to the United Provinces, in 162.5, in which country he had already made two or three campaigns, and in 1639, on the first insurrection of the Scots, was constituted General of the Horse in the expedition into that country. On the breaking out of the Rebellion, he endeavored to accommodate matters, and with that view, accompanied the Earl of Bedford ( see supra, p. 127.) to the King at Oxford. But these efforts becoming fruitless, he took up arms in the Royal cause, was taken prisoner in July, 1648, condemned to death by the High Court of Justice, and beheaded on the 9th of March, 1649, before the gates of Westminster Hall. Collins. -- Ed.

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Mr. Joachimi to the States General. [ From the Original in tlie Royal Archives at the Hague : File, EngeUmd. ]

High and Mighty Lords !

My Lords, My servant, whom I sent on the iii. inst. to Holland with despatches to your High Mightinesses and his Highness, returned yesterday with a certificate, that he had duly delivered them, without bringing back any rescript from your High Mightinesses I shall expect it shortly. I :

submitted to your High Mightinesses, in a despatch of the last of July, divers points to which (under correction) attention ought to be paid. Among the rest, to that of the complaint which the English of New England make against some of the Dutch Company in New Netherland. Were these to be once dislodged, they could not return there except with great difficulty. On the xviii. of August I also requested your High Mightinesses to be pleased to consider, in case the war proceed, whether theAmbassadors are at liberty to remain here, where the Parliament meets, or to repair King, without their Sovereigns and themselves being to the