Lives of the last four princesses of the royal house of Stuart

88 MAET, PEINCESS-lvOYAL. [1G55.
O'Niei had, also, been sorely embarrassed by the arrival
of a pack of English hounds, which the thoughtless
Charles had ordered ; and being unable to pay for their
passage, ordered them to be sent back, no easy matter to
be accomplished, without paying. Lord Newburgh, Lady
Stanhope's brother-in-law, wrote in , desperation to the
Princess-royal, asking her to take these unwelcome arrivals.
But her royal highness being herself without money, and in
no very good humour with her brother, angrily replied,
" I will neither have the dogs, pay their passage, nor be at
any expense concerning them."
" They have already cost your majesty much money,"
observes O'Niei, " and will cost you little less to return
them, than to keep them at Cologne for twelve months :
your majesty had better send for them. If you do not
make use of them in Flanders, you cannot make a fairer
present to the archduke, for I never saw a finer pack."
To complete all his troubles, Mrs. Barlow, alias Lucy
Waters, the mother of Monmouth, had been a fearful
annoyance to Daniel O'Niei, at this anxious time, by her
shameless conduct at the Hague.
The Princess writes to Charles from the Hague, 16th of
September, a frank excuse for a short letter, for she was
going to the Queen of Bohemia's after supper, to assist
in the little plays there ; which, she says, " is no ill diver-
tissement," and concludes with assuring him " they never
fail to drink his health."
In her next letter from the Hague, 27th of December,
" She is troubled at not hearing from Charles, — tells him
she has had another letter from the Queen, her mother,
commanding her to make all the haste she can to com-
mence her journey to Paris. And she has seen the
Spanish ambassador, and satisfied him that her journey
is not on political motives. She begs Charles to spare