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ORIGINAL COMMUN ICATION 5. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
ACCOUNT of the EMBASSY of LOUIS DE 
BOURBON, COUNT DE VENDOSME, 
JACQUES JOUVENEL DES URSINS, ARCH- 
BISHOP of RNEIMS, and cihers, to HEN- 
RY VI. KING Of ENGLAND, from a'MS. in 
the NATIONAL LIBRARY ai PARIs, mark- 
ed 8448, by M. GALLIARD: now first 
published im ENGLAND. 
T the epoch of the negociation, of 
which we are about to treat, Charles 
Vil. reigned in France, and Henry Vi.in 
England: the Fnglish, after a long time, 
lost in France all the conquests which Hen- 
ry V.and the Duke of Bedford had made 
there. The two nations’ were fatigued 
with war, and their minds were disposed 
to.accommodation.. Henry VI. nephew 
of Charles VII. had the same affection for 
him and France, which Richard If. his 
great uncle, according to the British mode, 
had had fur Charles VE. maternal erandfa- 
ther of Henry. Conferences for. peace 
were perpetually held ; sometimes at Ar- 
ras, sometimes between Calais and Gra- 
_Velines, sometimes at’ Tours. The ascen- 
dancy, which the factions in France had 
_hitherto given to the English, whether in 
arms or “council, declined every. day. 
The same factions then reigned in the 
Enylish regency. The Duke of Glouces- 
ter, the’ King’s uncle, and the Cardinal! 
of "Winchester, his great uncle, son of 
the Duke of Lancaster, father of Henry 
IV’. were qaarrelling for supremacy ; and 
each accused the-other several times of 
treason in various parliaments. These 
civil discords had the most sensible in- 
fluence upon continental affairs. The 
Cardinal and the Duke were divided in 
‘Opinion upon public business, as well.as 
upon the private views of ambition. The 
Duke of Gloucester desired only war, 
| and what he calied the glory of the Eng- 
lish name. © The Cardinal was for hae 
and peace. The Duke had wished, to’ 
unite ‘Henry with a daughter of the Cornte 
bs a Armagiac: the Ca: dina! had concluded 
in 1444, the year preceding, ‘at the con- 
ferences of ‘Tours, the mm artiage | with 
Margaret of Anjou, dadghter of René, 
Duc d’Anjou, and King of Sicily, In fa- 
_ Moy THLY Mage No. 183. 
_could only agree upon a truce: 
vour of this match, England, in lieu of de- 
manding a dower, had yielded the pro 
vince of Maine to Charles d’ Anjou, uncle, 
of the Princess.” Margaret never par- 
doned the opposition’ of the Duke ef 
Gloucester to the marriage; and landed 
in England, an enemy to that prince, 
and patroness of the party of the Cardi- 
nal. The young Suffolk, whorn the Car- 
dinal had used to negociate this marriage, 
became the Queen’s favourite, and she 
loaded him with such acts of kindness, as 
to bring some stain upon ‘her character. 
Henry was despotically governed: by hers 
no other power was. known than.that of 
Margaret: she occupied ape with” a! 
pus sillanimous devot ion, while he gave up. 
the reins of government to. her, Upon 
the whole Henry was a ae of wealc. 
mind, and Margaret a woman of strong: 
character: her courage and her pride. 
destined her to great faults, great mis- 
fortunes, and great resources. ‘Lhe party 
of the Queen and Suffolk was called in’ 
England the French, party. Margaret, 
in truth, appeared to be ane 4S ¢ atk eb ca? 
to the interests of France, her country: 
and the Duke. of Sutallc in order. to 
please her, went sometimes so far ag to 
betray his own 5 for which, in theend, 
he was ruined ; lout a at the tine of the 
embassy he was in the zenith of favour 
At the conferences of Lours, they 
the object 
OL ule embassy was, if possibie, to con=, 
vert this truce into a lasting peace. 
Four of the ambassadors arrived ‘at 
Calais, July 2, 1445, and went the DEX 
day to Dover. On the 8ih they all united 
at Canterbury, and made their entry into 
Lendon upon the. 14th. At about a 
ale frony the metropolis, says the 
MS: came the Earls of Sui Fylle Dorset, 
Salisbury, and many others, all of wen 
greeted the at mbassadors personally and. 
pleasantly, and escorted them by Lon- 
don Bridge to the quarters. Upon the 
bridge were the mayor and citizens, all 
rohied.i m Beariety fuyred w ith martin-fur ; 
about 60 i namber. 
a man held a gilt sword; 
along the streets, were 
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