_ 50 _ will be leaving, how the king my nephew usually addresses that King and in what language and terms. My order is that when you receive his letter you are to find out about all these things as fully and methodically as you usually do and let me know what you deduce from everything, and anything else that occurs to you. It would be well that you give the King my nephew an account of this. I am writing a letter to him expressing my conviction about the decision I have taken on this matter, telling him how obliged I shall be is he would order the person concerned to carry out this commission on my behalf, and on that of the other allies together with what he is to do in his name. Although I am assuming that the letters and despatches on this matter from His Holiness and the Republic of Venice will arrive before the time of the fleet’s departure, as they will have been told that it is necessary that they should be there to the end of March, nevertheless in case they are not, I should be obliged if the person concerned does not leave without my despatches. It would be well that you should tell me as soon as possible about everything you have been asked in this
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