A true Copy of a Letter sent from a friend in Paris, to his friend in London, with one enclosed, casually found near the Lovure in Paris.  
SIR,  
TO put it out of dispute that our passions are made use of by our enemies, and that we have motives often by corrupt persons suggested for them to their advantage, I have enclosed this Letter which was casually dropped by the Cardinal in passing from his Coach to the Lovure, it being my fortune to be that night at Court; and unobserved, to take it up.  
Sir, I submit it to your judgement, either to conceal, or communicate it, and rest,  
Your humble servant, N.F. Paris, 13. Jan. 1656.  
Endorsed thus, For his Eminence, Card. Mazarine.   

THe obligations and many instances of affection which I have received from your Eminence, do engage me to make returns suitable and commensurat to your merits; but although I have this set home upon my spirit, yet I may not (shall I tell you I cannot) at this juncture of time, and as the face of my affairs now stands, answer to your Call for Toleration; I say, I cannot as to a public declaration of my sense in that point; although I believe that under my Government your Eminence in the behalf of Catholics has less reason for complaint, as to rigour upon men's consciences, then under the Parliament; For I have of some, and those very many had compassion, making a difference. Truly I have, and I may speak it with cheerfulness in the presence of God who is a witness within me to that truth I affirm, made a difference, and as Judas speaks, plucked many out of the fire, the raging fire of persecution, which did tyrannize over their consciences, and encroacht by arbitrariness of power upon their Estates: And herein it is my purpose, as soon as I can remove impediments, and some weights that press me down, to make a further progress, and to discharge my promise to your Eminence in relation to that.  
And now I shall come to return your Eminence thanks for your judicious choice of that person to whom you have entrusted our weightiest affair, an affair wherein your Eminence is concerned, though not in equal degrees and measures with myself. I must confess that I had some doubts of its success, till Providence cleared them to me by the effects. I was not truly and to speak ingenuously without doubtings, and shall not be ashamed to give your Eminence the grounds I had for such doubtings; I did fear that Barkley would not have been able to go through and carry on that work, if either the Duke had cooled in his suit, or condescended to his Brother: I doubted also that those instructions which I sent over by 290 were not clear enough as to expression; some affairs here denying me leisure at that time to be so particular as to some circumstances as I would.  
If I am not mistaken, greatly mistaken in his character as I received it from your Eminence, that fire which is kindled between them now will not ask bellows to blow it, and to keep it burning; but what I think further necessary in this matter I will send your Eminence by Lockart: and now I shall boast to your Eminence my Security, upon a well-builded confidence in the Lord; for I distrust not but if this breach be widened a little more, and this difference fomented with some caution in respect of the persons to be added to it; I distrust not but that party which is already forsaken of God (as to any outward dispensations of mercies) and noisome to their Countrymen, will grow lower in the opinions of all the world.  
If I have troubled your Eminence too long in this, you may impute it to the resentment of joy which I have for the issue of this affair, and will conclude with giving you assurance that I will never be backward in demonstrating as becomes your Brother and Confederate, that I am  
Your Servant, O. P. Decemb. 26. 1656.