Let him be prompt in this.

Let him also take a most Christian--kingly, vigorous resolution against the great affront put upon him in the failure to carry out the treaty.

Such a resolve on the part of the two kings would restore all things to tranquillity and bring the Spaniard and his adherents 'in terminos modestiae.

But so long as France is keeping a suspicious eye upon England, and England upon France, everything will run to combustion, detrimental to their Majesties and to us, and ruinous to all the good inhabitants." To the Treaty of Xanten faithfully executed he held as to an anchor in the tempest until it was torn away, not by violence from without, but by insidious mutiny within.

At last the government of James proposed that the pledges on leaving the territory should be made to the two allied kings as mediators and umpires.