Bishop Burnet was heated with an enthusiastic terror of the house of Bourbon.

He declared to the queen in private, that any treaty by which Spain and the West Indies were left in the hands of king Philip, must in a little time deliver all Europe into the hands of France: that, if any such peace was made, the queen was betrayed, and the people ruined: that in less than three years she would be murdered, and the fires would blaze again in Smithfield.

This prelate lived to see his prognostic disappointed; therefore he might have suppressed this anecdote of his own conduct.
VIOLENCE OF PARTIES IN ENGLAND.
On the twenty-fifth day of June the queen signified, in a message to the house of commons, that her civil list was burdened with some debts incurred by several articles of extraordinary expense; and that she hoped they would empower her to raise such a sum of money upon the funds for that provision as would be sufficient to discharge the incumbrances, which amounted to five hundred thousand pounds.

A bill was immediately prepared for raising this sum on the civil list revenue, and passed through both houses with some difficulty.

Both lords and commons addressed the queen concerning the chevalier de St.George, who had repaired to Lorraine.