I had last Evening the Honour of your Excellencys Letter of Yesterdays Date, and shall conform myself to your Advice.

I shall esteem myself highly honoured by a Presentation to the King and Royal Family, and shall wait your Excellencys Directions concerning the time of it. I shall not think myself at Liberty to make any publication of my Powers to treat of Peace, untill it shall have been announced in the Gazette; after which I shall transmit to your Excellency any Paragraph which may be thought proper to publish in the Gazettes of Holland, and take your Advice upon it, before it is sent. My other Powers shall be concealed, according to your Advice; and I shall have the honour, to pay my respects to your Excellency very 254soon at Versailles. I have the honour to be with the greatest respect, Sir, your most obedient and most humble Servant