[513] Unpublished despatch:--Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, section Savoy, 68. [514] Royale, the Duchess of Savoy.--_Trans._ [515] 75,000_l._--_Trans._ [516] Unpublished despatch:--Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, section Savoy, 68. [517] Unpublished despatches from Pomponne to D’Estrades, April 28 and 30, 1679. [518] Matthioly underwent three examinations, in the course of which he excused himself for having confided the secret of the treaty to the Court of Turin on the plea that he had been surprised into doing so by the President Truccki, whom he described as an “insinuating and adroit man” professing much “affection for the interests of France.” He admitted having received 2,000 livres from the court, and maintained that this was for services formerly rendered. He did not deny having spoken of the treaty to certain Venetians and to a partisan of Spain at Padua, but said he simply told them that the affair had failed; while as regarded the representative of Austria at Venice, he saw that he knew all about the treaty from the Duke of Mantua at Venice. In short, Matthioly pretended generally that the reason the ratification had been delayed, was on account of the unwillingness of the Duke, acted upon by his mother and the Court of Vienna, to complete the affair:--Letters from Catinat to Louvois, quoted by M. Roux-Fazillac.--_Trans._ [519] “I put him into the greatest possible fear of the torture if he did not speak the truth:”--Letter from Catinat to Louvois, Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.--_Trans._