were he alive he might
witness that as well as the Aversion the King of _England_ always bore
to Sir _W. Temple_; and the little Esteem he had of him at bottom.
Upon my return from _Nimeguen_ to _London_, I went immediately to
Court, as soon as I came there I meet Prince _Rupert_, who askt me
with a sterne Countenance if the Peace was Concluded, I answered him
in the Affirmative, upon which he cryed out and said, _O
Dissimulation_. After having had the Honour to give his Majesty an
account of what was past, I told him of the ill humour I perceived Sir
_W. T._ to be in, and what I knew of his neglect of his Majesties
Orders; The King seemed very angry with Sir _W_'s. Proceedings, and
said, _he was a very impertinent R---- to find fault with my
Commands_.

But if the late K. of _England_, did not approve of my Conduct in the
affairs of _Nimeguen_, which in effect he declared at first in Publick
not to be pleased with, in which he play'd his part to admiration: If
against his will, I had truly inform'd the several Deputies at the
_Hague_, how that the two Kings of _England_ and _France_ were
intirely agreed upon Conditions of Peace; if this accident changed the
Destiny of _Christendom_, and what endeavours soever the English Court
had made, there were no ways to repair the Breach. If I was a Fool, a
peice of an Agent, or a Knave, How comes it that the King suffer'd me
to stay in _England_ near a year? nay, as long as my Master thought
fit. Why was the King so civil to me? Why did he recompence me for my
Voyage from _Nimeguen_? Upon what account did the King bestow several
other Favours upon me? How comes it, that I haveing made a great
Entertainment and Fireworks, to shew my joy for the Re-establishment
of the Duke my Master to his Teritories, that the whole Court should
do me that Honour as to be present thereat?

It was not my quality of Envoy Extraordinary of the Duke _de Gottorp_,
that hindred the King to express some kind of resentment against me,
and thereupon to bid me avoid the Kingdom. I do well remember the King
was just upon the point of making Mounsieur _Van Beuningen_ Ambassador
to the States General, to withdraw and get him out of the Land,
because he had got the word _Connivance_, to be foisted into a
Memorial he presented to the King, for the recalling of the English
Forces, which bore Armes in _France_.

_Don Barnard de Salinas_ was the Spanish Envoy; the King made much of
him, yea and loved him for t