to induce him at once, as far as
may be possible, to repair the outrageous wrong already done.

[Footnote 1: This Letter is omitted in the Printed Collection and in
Phillips; but it is given in the Skinner Transcript (No. 38 there),
and Mr. Hamilton has printed it in his Milton Papers (p. 2). It had
already been printed in Morland's book (pp. 564-565).]

(LIX.) TO THE MOST EMINENT LORD, CARDINAL MAZARIN, _May_ 25,
1625:[1]--Not content with writing to Louis XIV., Cromwell
addressed also the great French Minister. After mentioning the
dreadful occasion, the letter proceeds--"There is clearly nothing
which has obtained for the French nation greater esteem with all
their neighbours professing the Reformed Religion than the liberty
and privileges permitted and granted to Protestants by edicts and
public acts. It is for this reason chiefly, though for others as
well, that this Commonwealth has sought for the friendship and
alliance of the French to a greater degree than before. For the
settlement of this there have now for a good while been dealings
here with the King's Ambassador, and his Treaty is now almost
brought to a conclusion. Moreover, the singular benignity and
moderation of your Eminence, always manifest hitherto in the most
important transactions of the Kingdom relating to the French
Protestants, causes me to hope much from your own prudence and
magnanimity."

[Footnote 1: Utterly undated in Printed Collection and in Phillips,
and quite misplaced in both; properly dated "May 25, 1655" in Skinner
Transcript.]

(LX.) TO THE STATES-GENERAL OF THE UNITED PROVINCES, _May_ 25,
1655:[1]--To the same effect as the letters to the Swiss Cantons
and the Kings of Sweden and Denmark, but with emphatic expression
of his Highness's peculiar confidence In the Dutch Republic in such
a crisis. He offers in the close to act in concert with the
States-General and other Protestant powers for any interference
that may be necessary.

[Footnote 1: So dated in official copy, as printed in Morland's
book, pp. 558-560; but undated in Printed Collection and in
Phillips, and dated "_West., Junii_--1655" in Skinner
Transcript (No. 41 there). This last is a mistake; for Thurloe
speaks of the letter as already written May 25 (Thurloe to Pell,
_Vaughan's Protectorate_, I. 185). The official copy, as given
in Morland, differs somewhat from Milton's draft. "_Ego_" for
Cromwell, in one sente