Sorry his Grace is ill. "I labour to obtain [a knowledge of this Coast] by making a general Survey of every part of it, especially from hence to Ostend; such an opportunity being never perhaps to be had hereafter." My brother, a Cornet in Lord Windsor's regiment, got leave through his Grace to come to Nieuport to survey it, but now the regiment is returning to England; can he stay till he finishes? Le Blanc expected shortly.

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