Gaultier might be very usefully employed in handing them to the ministers here.

This was no farther thought on at present.
In the mean time the war went on, and the conferences at The Hague and Gertruydenberg miscarried, by the allies insisting upon such demands as they neither expected, nor perhaps desired, should be granted.
[Footnote 3: See note prefixed to "A New Journey to Paris" in vol.v.

of present edition.

Gaultier, although a priest, was nothing more than a superior spy in the pay of the French Court.

He had been chaplain to Tallard and the disgraced Count Gallas, and was a sort of _protege_ of the Earl of Jersey; but his character does not bear very close scrutiny.
The Duke of Berwick could not have had any high opinion either of the man or his abilities, since in the "Memoires de Berwick" (vol.ii., p.
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