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APPENDIX.

[No. 1. Estrades to Lewis the Fourteenth.]

Commencement of the Negociation.—State of the Court of Mantua.—Influence of the Spaniards there.

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[No. 2. Matthioli to Lewis the Fourteenth.]

Protestations of devotion to Lewis.—Belief in the good intentions of the Duke of Mantua.

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[No. 3. Estrades to Pomponne.]

Continuation of the negociation.—Intrigues of the Austrian Party.