I was the first to discover this intrigue, which they thought buried in the bosom of the Triumvirate.
I gave notice of it to My Lords the States as in duty bound.

It all came back to the government in the copies furnished of my secret despatches.
This is the real source of the complaints against me.

The rest of the charges, relating to the Third and other matters, are but pretexts.

To parry the blow, they pretend that all that is said and done with the Spaniard is but feigning.

Who is going to believe that?
Has not the Pope intervened in the affair?
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