Blake's presence in the Mediterranean was not forgotten.

All which being known to Mazarin, that wily statesman saw that no time was to be lost.

While Mr.Downing was still only on his way to Geneva through France, Mazarin had instructed M.Servien, the French minister at Turin, to insist, in the French King's name, on an immediate settlement of the Vaudois business.

The result was a _Patente di Gratia e Perdono_, or "Patent of Grace and Pardon," granted by Charles Emanuel to the Vaudois Protestants, Aug.

19, in terms of a Treaty at Pignerol, in which the French Minister appeared as the real mediating party and certain Envoys from the Swiss Cantons as more or less assenting.