The king professed himself extremely well pleased with this address, and told them he would immediately order his ministers abroad to act in concert with the states-general and other powers, for the attainment of those ends they proposed.
AN INTERCEPTED LETTER.
He communicated to the commons a letter, written by the earl of Melfort to his brother the earl of Perth, governor to the pretended prince of Wales.

It had been mislaid by, accident, and came to London in the French mail.

It contained a scheme for another invasion of England, together with some reflections on the character of the earl of Middleton, who had supplanted him at the court of St.Germain's.

Melfort was a mere projector, and seems to have had no other view than that of recommending himself to king James, and bringing his rival into disgrace.

The house of lords, to whom the' letter was also imparted, ordered it to be printed.