It stands as No.

103 in the Skinner Transcript, and has been printed by Hamilton, p.

8.] [Footnote 3: Thurloe, VII.

173 et seq.] (CXXXI.) TO CHARLES GUSTAVUS, KING OF SWEDEN, _June_ 1658:--Since Cromwell's last letter by Milton to this heroic Scandinavian (March 30), congratulating him on his generous Peace with Denmark, and urging the policy of a League of all the northern Protestant Powers for conjoint action against Austria, Poland, and Catholicism universally, the movements of the Swede had been most perplexing.

Now he had been turning against the Poles and Austrians; but again Denmark, or even the Dutch, seemed to be the object of his resentment, while there was very quarrelsome negotiation between him and the Elector Marquis of Brandenburg, and every appearance that the Elector might have to bear the next full burst of his wrath.