423-424, of the Safeguard for the Count of Oldenburg's subjects obtained from the English Council of State by the joint exertions of Mylius and Milton, an interesting addition has turned up in the form of another Latin letter from Milton to Mylius, preserved "in a collection of autographs belonging to the Cardinal Bishop-Prince von Schwartzenberg." A copy was sent by Dr.Goll of Prague to Professor Alfred Stern of Bern, author of _Milton und Seine Zeit_; and Professor Stern communicated it to the _Academy_, where it appeared Oct.

13, 1877.

It may be here translated:--"Yesterday, my most respected Hermann, after you had gone, there came to me a mandate of the Council, ordering me to compare the Latin copy [of the Safeguard] with the English, and to take care that they agreed with each other, and then to send both to Lord Whitlocke and Mr.Neville for revision; which I did, and at the same time wrote fully to Lord Whitlocke on the subject of the insertion you wanted made,--namely that there should be a clause in favour also of the successors and descendents of his Lordship the Count, and this in the formula which you yourself suggested: I added moreover the reasons you assigned why, unless that were done, the business would seem absolutely null.
What happened in the Council in consequence I do not know for certain, for I was kept at home by yesterday's rain and was not present.

If you write to the President of the Council [_Concilii_ only in the copy, but one guesses that the word for 'President' has to be inserted], or, better still, if you send one of your people to Mr.Frost, you may yourself, I believe, hear from them; or, at all events, you shall know in the evening from me,--your most devoted JOHN MILTON.Feb.13, 1651 [i.e.1651-2]." The letter accords in every particular with the extract we have given from the minutes of the Council of State of Feb.

11, and enables us to see how the Safeguard for the Count of Oldenburg did emerge, in the desired form at last, in Parliament on Feb.17.Professor Stern, in his communication to the _Academy_, adds that the Safeguard is "printed by J.J.Winkelmann in his _Oldenburgische Friedens und der benachbarten Oerter Kriegshandlungen_, p.