D. _To Lord Godolphin._

_August 28._--The troops under my command are advanced three days on

their march towards the Rhine, but I have been obliged to stay here[28]

to finish, if possible, the treaty with the electoress.... By the

letters we have intercepted of the enemy's, going to Paris from their

camp at Dublingen, they all own to have lost 40,000 men.

[28] At Sefelingen.

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