Catalogue description J. VAN HOUTE to LORD WILLOUGHBY.

--Finding myself to-day upon the Exchange, I there met Mr. Killigrew, who showed me letters from Mr. Bodley, with copies of his propositions to the States General for explanation of their placard, and of the States' evasive reply, stating that what they had written was meant only in general, to show how the whole affair had happened ; also of Mr. Bodley's and Mr. Gilpin's articles in form of a replication (exhibited on the 17th ult.) which I could only read on the Exchange. I asked Mr. Killigrew for copies, but he said it would be better to go to the Lord Treasurer's (seeing that he and the Privy Council were already advertised of all) to tell him that a man was going express to your Lordship and ask him whether he had any orders to give or no. I told Madame this by Robert Creswelt (as I cannot speak the language) and he is gone to the Lord Treasurer's, but as Warbeton must set out, and I believe his Lordship is out of town, I fear you cannot hear at this time.

The night before last came news that the Earl of Essex was arrived at Court, and that Lisbon was taken. It is said positively that the Prince of Parma is dead, and his body brought to Brussels. Blyenbeeck is lost, and the enemy who had carried on the siege there have come to Huesden, to besiege it more straightly.