the chief Protestant Powers of Europe in behalf of general Protestant interests; Count Bundt, on the other hand, pressed that special League between England and Sweden which he had come to propound, arguing that, while it would be more advantageous to both countries in the meantime, it might be extended afterwards.  For a while there was danger of wreck on this preliminary difference; and Cromwell even talked of transferring the Treaty to Stockholm and sending Whitlocke thither for the second time as Ambassador-Plenipotentiary—­greatly to Whitlocke’s horror, who had no desire for another such journey, and a good deal to Count Bundt’s displeasure, who thought himself and his mission slighted.  At length, the Ambassador having signified that he had received new instructions from his master, which would enable him to meet Cromwell’s views in some points, he was allowed to have his own way in the main; and in February 1655-6 the Treaty was on foot, both in the Council meetings at Whitehall, and in meetings of Whitlocke and the other English Commissioners with the Ambassador at Dorset House.  “A long debate touching levies of soldiers and hiring of ships in one another’s dominions;” “long debates touching contraband goods, in which list were inserted by the Council corn, hemp, pitch, tar, money, and other things:”  such are Whitlocke’s descriptions of the Dorset House meetings.  The Treaty, in fact, was partly commercial and partly political, pointing to new advantages for England, but also to new responsibilities, all round the Baltic and throughout Germany.  In the debates no one more resolute, no one more clear-headed, no one more contemptuous when he pleased, than Count Bundt; and he had, it appears, a very able second in his subordinate, the Swedish Resident in ordinary, Mr. Coyet.—­In the midst of these laborious debates over the Treaty news had arrived of the birth at Stockholm of a son and heir to the Swedish King.  The birth of this Prince, afterwards Charles XI. of Sweden, occasioned a grand display of loyalty at the Swedish Embassy in London.  “Feb. 20,” writes Whitlocke, “the Swedish Ambassador kept a solemnity this evening for the birth of the young Prince of Sweden.  All the glass of the windows of his house, which were very large, being new-built, were taken off, and instead thereof painted papers were fitted to the places, with the arms of Sweden upon them, and inscriptions in great letters testifying the rejoicing for the birth of the young Prince:  on the inside of the papers in the rooms were set close to them a very great number of lighted candles, glittering through the painted papers:  the arms and colours and writings were plainly to be discerned, and showed glorious, in the street:  the like was in the staircase, which had the form of a tower.  In the balconies on each side of the house were trumpets, which sounded often seven or eight of them, together.  The company at supper were the Dutch Ambassador, the Portugal and Brandenburg Residents, Mynheer