I return, then, to M.Cromwell.
You have a treaty with him, that is to say, with England, since when you signed that treaty M.Cromwell was England." "M.

Cromwell is dead." "Do you think so, sire ?" "No doubt he is, since his son Richard has succeeded him, and has abdicated." "Yes, that is it exactly.

Richard inherited after the death of his father, and England at the abdication of Richard.

The treaty formed part of the inheritance, whether in the hands of M.Richard or in the hands of England.

The treaty is, then, still as good, as valid as ever.