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 12 S. VIII. JAN, 22, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. your Lp knows him or not. But I submit it to your own Pleasure. I will add no more than while I assure Your Lp that I shall not be so much delighted with the Newness of y Objects around Me, but I shall have room for y e Delight which y e Continuance of your Regard for Me will give Me ; when You shall give Me y Honour of hearing from You. Which I shall be in y e less danger of missing, if You shall be pleas'd to direct to me at M r Kembles Marchant in Rotterdam ; who will forward them to Me. In y 6 mean Time, I remain, Yr Lordships most obliged & most obedient humble Servant Osnabrug. ROBERT WHATLEY Oct. 27 th. NS. 1720. F.S. Yr Lp has I presume receiv'd'D r Martins Book of Louvain. I had y e honour to present one of y 6 same with a Letter to L d Sunderland in this Town 2 nights ago. Who knows him very well, as do all our English Gentry that have been in those Countrys ; & who mind y Conversation of Learned Men. He desir'd Me to make You his Compliments. MY LORD, IV. Hanover. Nov. 20. 1720. NS. Altho' it be so late that I did my Self the Honour of writing to Your Lordship so largely from Osnabrugh ; yet I can't let this Opportunity slip of the Departure of the last Body of English Gentry from this Place, without Remembring Your Lordship in particular, with the rest of my Friends in England. I came to this Place the 30th of last Month about 4 days after the Kings returnfromGohre.* The Court was very full of Persons of Quality that [camjef from all Quarters to take leave of his Majesty. J Among the rest two of the King of Sweden's Brothers. I found but very few English. The Earl of Sunderland I met at Osnabrug, fc S r G Bing on the Road, and besides my Lord Stanhope, The Marquis of Winchester, y v Lord's Barrington & Gage, S r Alex. Cairns, !c Alderman Bailys, who were here with 2 or 3 merchants on the Harborough account, were all that were here of any Distinction. I found the Prince a Youth of the Greatest hopes. For Comelyness of Person, Goodness of Nature, and brightness of Parts he has not, I beleive, his Match, in y e World. In his Face You see a great resemblance of his Fathers Features, softened with y Princesses Mildness. He has all y e Vivacity of his Father, temper'd with his Mothers Sweetness. In short, He has his Fathers Body, but his Mothers Soul. He has always 3 Gouvernours attending Him. And is never admitted to play with those of his own Age. For these last 8 months he has made no progress in his Studys, by reason of his being situated South-East of Lxineburg. t Partly illegible through sealing. J Owing to the South feea trouble the King was compelled to return to England at short notice. [ndisposed. The King lives with more Grandeur here, 1 think, than at London. The Palace is a; regular building, containing 3 square Courts., The Apartments are suited to y Dignity of an Electoral Court. And suitably furnish'd. Here are no less than 4 Open Tables kept, besides the- Prince's, of 10 or 12 Covers Each, Which with bhe Kings while he was here makes Six. Na Person appears at Court of any Distinction but is invited to them all in their Turn. The Kings Stables are fine & in them he keeps above 200 oach and Sadie horses. The Town of Hanover is but indifferently built. 'It has 3 Lutheran, a French, a Reformed, & a Popish Church. I hope these particulars will not displease Your Lordship : As they are laid before You from a Desire of gratifying your Curiosity. I come now to mention to your Lordship anp r Matter. When I waited on D r Martin at Louvain.' the Gentlemen who sent your Lordship that Book concerning y 6 Constitution) I found him writing to L ds Sunderland & Stanhope, with a Design to send them each a Copy of y 6 same Book, & understanding I was going to Hanover, desired) the favour of Me to convey it, with his Letters to Them. I must add that in these he made a* Proposal of Consequence, Which was That he wou'd very speedily publish a Book wherein he wou'd prove that y 6 Catholicks were obliged in point of Conscience to observe the Oath of Allegiance, & that the Pope had no Power of Dispensing in the Case. By the means of these Letters to L d Stanhope T had access to Him. with a very good Grace & he seem'd mightily pleas'd with y 6 D" Proposal &c, & received Me 1 very obligingly. As I have a great Inclination, my Lord, to introduce My Self into y 6 World, & hi particular into y 6 Service of one in my Lords Station or of one "in an Ambassadors, I took y Opportunity to recommend my self to Lord' Stanhope ; and on his objecting my being a~ stranger to Him, I nam'd your Lordship as One- from whom he might receive a Character, of me r so as to take off that Objection. I told his Lord- ship, that as He was designed for Cambray he might encrease his Family, & want the Service of a Gentleman who has had a liberal education. His Answer to this was as good as a Promise in Case he went to Cambray he wou'd accept of my Service. T own, My Lord, I have an Ambition to begin to Act a Part in Life ; And as I find my; Genius chiefly turnd that Way I have pointed to Your Lordsp As You will certainly allow Me,. My Ambition is a laudable One, So Your Lordship will I hope forgive Me if T desire You to mention my name on a proper Occasion to my Lord Stan- hope so as I may have y 8 honour of being employed under Him. My Lord Carteret was here 3 nights. If your Lordship by your Credit with him could reco m end Me eftectualy to Him, I should be equaly or rather better pleas'd than to find my self in my Lord Stanhopes Service. He is one of y 8 most aimable Gentlemen I ever saw ; & entertained the Prince, with a vast Variety of Stories from what he bad observ'd in his Embassy. I desire Your Lordsp to lay this Request of mine to Heart, You can never act lor one who will have a more gratefull Mind of y Favour You will do Him, no* for one who is more Your Lordships most obedient & most hu. serv'. R. WHATLEY
 * Die Gohrde, a forest, and Electoral hunting- box'