by the next post, but, if not, I think it will be no great matter, for I am sure there will be nothing to be writ.
I was with Monsieur Serichamps,[1] who told me of a letter he received yesterday from Frankfort, that saith they are in great apprehensions of the King of France at Strasburg; that by his motions and proceedings they do not imagine he can have any design but to beseige it: and they did verily believe his forces would sit down before it in ten or fourteen days. Here they begin to apprehend the Elector of Brandenburg; they finding by his letter that he is angry, and hearing that he is raising more troops; and so I find 'tis all the world over. Monsieur d'Avaux, speaking of the greatness of the King, his master, said, that one of his happinesses was "de faire peur à tout le monde." Monsieur Serichamps told me another thing, which I take it is fit for you to know. When Monsieur le Marischal de l'Estrades[2] went to Amsterdam to see what mischief he could do there, he did say that he had contributed very
