The  Queen-mother  has  written  rather  a  sharp  letter  to  Alen9on
pointing  out  the  injury  which  he  may  suffer  by  remaining  here,  as
the  Queen  was  only  delaying  him  for  the  purpose  of  sending  him
away  the  more  discredited.  I  understand  that  on  the  7th  the
Treasurer  urged  the  Queen  to  give  Alen^on  some  money  and  send
him  off,  as  he  said  it  was  not  meet  that  he  should  be  detained
here.  She  replied  that  when  she  had  an  answer  to  what  she  had
written  to  the  king  of  France  she  would  do  so.  The  French
declare  that  Lansac  will  be  here  in  four  days,  and  they  are  basing
their  hopes  of  the  marriage  on  the  action  of  Parliament,  which  is
convoked  for  the  18th  instant,  whilst  the  English  are  so  vexed  at
hearing  them  say  this,  and  that  the  marriage  will  take  place,  that
it  has  been  necessary  for  the  Queen  to  tranquillise  the  people  by
ordering  the  sailors  who  had  left  the  ships  to  return  to  them  and
go  to  the  mouth  of  the  river,  in  order  that  they  may  think  that
Alen9on  is  shortly  to  leave.  There  is,  however,  no  certainty  of
this,  although  he  has  ordered  some  of  his  servants,  who  were  about
to  return  to  France,  to  delay  their  departure,  saying  that  he
himself  would  shortly  be  going.  The  instability  of  him  and  the
Queen  is  such  that  no  dependence  can  be  placed  upon  the  decision
of  either  of  them.
