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The Agent of the States General delivered to me yesterday on the part of Their High Mightinesses, Their Resolution of the 18th Instant, by which they agree in the most friendly manner to what I had demanded by my last Memorial, as Your Lordship will see at large in the Translation of that Paper, which I have the Honour to inclose. The Prohibition² is extended provisionally for a Twelvemonth longer, & the Proclamation is in the Press, & will be publish'd immediately. I assured the Prince of Orange, (who returned to Loo yesterday morning,) & the Dutch Ministers, that The King would be perfectly satisfied with this real Proof of the Regard & Friendship of the Republick, & would give them the earliest Notice when these Precautions became unnecessary.