He had also been much annoyed at their having failed to notify him of their military demonstration in the Electorate of Cologne to avenge the cruelties practised upon the Protestants there.

He asked Caron if he was instructed to give him information regarding it.

Being answered in the negative, he said he had thought himself of sufficient importance to the States and enough in their confidence to be apprised of their military movements.

It was for this, he said, that his ambassador sat in their council.

Caron expressed the opinion that warlike enterprises of the kind should be kept as secret as possible in order to be successful.