While they were there, a special envoy joined them, announcing the capture of Dunkirk; and so the joy was complete.
There was nothing the French King would not do to show his regard for the great Protector; and, but for his Majesty's illness at that moment from small-pox, the Cardinal himself would have come over instead of sending his nephew.

And why should there not be a renewal of the Treaty after the expiry of the present term, to secure another year or two of that co-operation of the English Army and Fleet with Turenne which had led already to such excellent results?
What if Ostend, as well as Dunkirk and Mardike, were to be made over to the Protector?
These were suggestions for the future, and meanwhile new successes _were_ added to the capture of Dunkirk.

Town after town in Flanders, including Gravelines at last, yielded to Turenne, or other generals, and received French garrisons, and through the summer autumn the Spaniards were so beset in Flanders that an expedition thence for the invasion of England in the interest of Charles Stuart, or in any other interest, was no longer even a possibility.[1] [Footnote 1: Godwin, IV.

544-551; where, however, the digest of facts does not seem accurate in every point.

Compare Thurloe, VII.