The Prince wrote a letter alluding to this communication of Langerac and giving much alarm to that functionary.

He thought his despatches must have been intercepted and proposed in future to write always by special courier.

Barneveld thought that unnecessary except when there were more important matters than those appeared to him to be and requiring more haste.
"The letter of his Excellency," said he to the Ambassador, "is caused in my opinion by the fact that some of the deputies to this assembly to whom I secretly imparted your letter or its substance did not rightly comprehend or report it.

You did not say that his Excellency had any such design or project, but that it had been said that the Contra-Remonstrants were entertaining such a scheme.

I would have shown the letter to him myself, but I thought it not fair, for good reasons, to make M.du Agean known as the informant.