He had come to London early in November; a sub-committee of the Committee of Safety had been appointed to receive his report on present relations with the United Provinces; and he was waiting for re-credentials.

The Dutch Ambassador Nieuport, we may add, was still in London, as also the French Ambassador M.de Bordeaux, and other inferior foreign residents, but all meanwhile as mere on-lookers .-- One inquires with most interest about Ambassador Lockhart.

Since August, he had been at or near St.Jean de Luz, on the borders between France and Spain, charged, as Ambassador for the Rump, with the business of endeavouring to have the English Commonwealth included in the great Treaty then going on between Mazarin and the Spanish minister Don Luis de Haro, so that, when peace had been definitely concluded between France and Spain, there might be peace also between Spain and the Commonwealth.

There he had been received, with the utmost respect by Mazarin and with all courtesy by Don Luis de Haro, both of them friendly enough to the purpose of his mission for reasons of their own.

It was found, however, that the Peace between France and Spain was a matter of sufficient complication and difficulty in itself; and so, though it was not finally concluded and signed till the end of November, when it took the name of _The Treaty of the Pyrenees_, and secured, among many other things, the marriage of Louis XIV.