Memorials of the Civil War Author:Robert Bell Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Parliament, but from a strong sense of " the vices and disorders," and the " high provocation of God's wrath and displeasure," which were believed to flow from t... more »heatrical representations. We learn from the following letters, dated in the beginning of March, that scanty news had reached the Low Countries respecting English affairs, owing to the prevalence of easterly winds ; and that the King's career was beginning to be looked upon there as hopeless. In Bruxelles they were deep in the carnival, installing Knights of the Golden Fleece, and apparently thinking very little about the imprisoned King and the fugitive Royal Family. Mons. De Vic To Sir R. Browne. I Have received yours by the last orders, for which I render you many thanks, and for those that you sent me with them from my wife under Mr. Nicols, his cover, to whom I do pray you the adjoined may he delivered. All businesses here are almost at a stand upon the news they have both from Germany and from Spain, that the Archduke Leopold is to come hither to govern these broken and shattered provinces, which would make the present chief ministers in them less careful of those preparations which the season of the year calls upon them for. The Duke of Lorraine is not yet gone though the greatest part of his forces; namely, those which were between the Sambre and Meuse, are advanced, and have taken their quarters in the parts about the Moselle. Madame de Menreuse is going to live at her new purchase of Carpen within three or four leagues of Cullen, where she hath already sent her household stuff. The Marquis of Castel Rodrigo hath lately declared himself Captain-General of the Armies here, a quality he hath long had in his power to take, but never assumed it till now, though he did appear something like such a ...« less