they could not have shewn more eagerness.  He staid only two or three days at Paris, during which he went to see the Church of Notre Dame, the Louvre, the Palace of Luxembourg, and some of the fine Seats near the City.  He was so well satisfied with the manner in which Grotius received him, that he made a considerable present to his lady.  She would have refused it, if she could have done it with a good grace.  Grotius, in returning his humble thanks for it to the High Chancellor, told him that he owed all he had to his goodness, and that if he could have done more, he would have thought himself sufficiently recompensed by the honour of lodging so great a man.  Oxenstiern went from Paris to embark at Dieppe; and Grotius accompanied him a part of the way[235].  As soon as the High Chancellor arrived at Dieppe, he wrote Grotius a very obliging letter[236].  The Court had prepared vessels at Dieppe, on board which Oxenstiern embarked for Holland, from whence he proceeded to Lower Saxony.

This treaty occasioned a difference between the Duke of Weymar and the High Chancellor[237].  The Marquis de Feuquieres insinuated to that Prince, that Oxenstiern, in treating with France, had shewn no regard to the interests of Germany.  The fact was most false; for Grotius was a witness that the High Chancellor had recommended the affairs of Germany to the King with great warmth:  it was agreed that neither peace nor truce should be concluded but in concert with the Allies; and he had ordered Grotius to solicit their affairs, who had in consequence pressed the sending the promised succours.  It was not probable that Feuquieres should of himself venture to talk in this manner, which was enough to ruin him:  there was therefore reason to suspect that he did it by private orders from the Cardinal, that the Duke of Weymar, distrusting the Chancellor, might place his confidence in his Eminence.  It is certain, that notwithstanding what was agreed on at Compeigne, the Cardinal had the treaty with Laefler and Strect still much at heart; and Avaugour[238], the French Minister at Stockholm, was ordered to demand its ratification.  But he was answered, that those Ministers were not sent by Sweden, and exceeded their powers, and that the affair was referred to Oxenstiern.  After such a formal denial, Avaugour was forced to confine his demands to the ratification of the treaty of Compeigne.

FOOTNOTES: 

[230] Ep. 383. p. 140.

[231] Ep. 390. p. 142. & ep. 391. p. 143.

[232] Ep. 393. p. 143 & ep. 396 p. 144.

[233] Ep. 387. p. 141.

[234] Ep. 400. p. 146.

[235] Ep. 344. p. 853.

[236] Ep. 408. p. 1, 8.

[237] Ep. 432. p. 159.

[238] Puffendorf, l. 8. n. 4.

VII.  Grotius was not only fatigued and embarrassed with State affairs; the reformed Ministers gave him uneasiness at a time when he imagined they had room to be satisfied with him.