Spaniards in mind of the weakness of all the towns in Flanders, there being not above three hundred men in Charleroy. Soon after, Sir Gabriel Silvius came to me. He told me the French ambassador never came to see the Prince or Princess; that he hears the French find that there is nothing to be done without the Prince, and therefore that they intend to send Monsieur Schomberg as ambassador. He finds fault with the Prince that he does not live with respect enough to the Duke, and that the Duke is sensible of it. He thinks it necessary that the Prince should have a minister in England, and he would be the man. He is sorry the Prince does not use people better. My Lady Betty Selbourne complains and wails horribly.
That night I lay at Utrecht, in the suburbs; it being late, I could not get into the town.
27 I came to Nimeguen, where Sir Lionel Jenkins used me with all the civility imaginable, and told me that the Prince had sent him word by his gentleman that he went a-hunting[1] on Monday, and desired him to come on Tuesday.
- ↑ The Prince of Orange was passionately fond of hunting; his tastes, indeed, appear to have been very much those of his forefathers, the ancient Germans, of whom Csesar says, "Vita omnis in venationibus atque in studiis rei militaris consistit." The account which Sir William Temple gives of his first imp-
