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Show . ' ~~- ..r.~; .. \ r. ·· ..• . ,'.:'. :.J I 1" -- - --1 I.") I I II - I >f. >f. . >f. Jan. 10. tJ:j. SIR, I Fear you begin to wifh you had kept your De~re- to your felf, and no' ask'd my Opi-nion upon Matters that have grown under my Pen fo much beyond the compafs, which I at firll: hop'd they wou'd have come within: but Pati€nce once more, and this lha\1 be the !all: time I will trouble you with my Thoughts upon the Management either of War or Peace, till you !hall again make it your own Requell:, to whom I can refufe nothing. To come then to the Bu~nefs , and refume the Subject where my !all: left off; 1 lha\1 give you in this, the bell: Accou r t 1 can, of what was done in relation to Peace, from the breaking off of the Conferences at the H"gue, to the end of thofe that were held the Year after at Gertruydenberg; that is; from 'June the 9th 1709, to 'July the 25th 1710. And th at you may have a more dill: inB: View of this Affair, it may no t be amifs ~o divide this Space of Time into three Parts; and con~der Firfr, what pafs'd from the Return of Monfieur Ruuille, to Monfieur Pttkum's Journey to Pdris, which w~s abou t the middle of November. Secondly, wiJJt Progrefs w~s made in this Affair, betw ee.1 B t hJt |