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in such an Ugly place that you wou'd not take it for nothing to be obliged to live in't. I told you I had little to add but I mean news, wch you find tho' I have troubled you with so long a letter I confess I am so pusled to think of your coming or not coming this winter, that I believe I cou'd writ whole sheet pro and con, and not know my self what to determine at last. If I consulted my own interest I shou'd be very solicitous for you coming : but I believe my best way is to resolve as Lord Berkley said he wou'd to advise nothing about for fear it shou'd be wrong.

28 November, 17 10. Dear Brother,



The Queen's Speech you'll have sent you from the office, and you'll see 'tis calculated to give all people sattisfaction, and I think it has most, tho some that came out of the City said after it Stock fell above two p. c. — and gave for reason that Scheveral's word of indulgence was used instead of tolleration, but now they come to read it they see that word attented with two words they like, wch are by law. At the naming Mr. Bromley to be Speaker S'^ Thomas Hanmore"* made a fine speech in commendation 01 that Gentleman and gave some encomiums upon the prospect there was by the late change of having the affairs of the Nation better man- aged, but did it in such fine terms that those that does not approve of the side he espouse say 'twas very fine for a sett speech wch is his excellence.



London, 31" November, 17 10. Dear Brother,

What past remarkable in the house of Lords Tues- day I did not hear till next morning or else I shouM have sent it you by that Mail. When they had drawn up or

most considerable man in the House of Commons," writes Swift. He was himself elected Speaker in 17 12.
 * Or Hanmer, of Euston Hall, Suffolk, member for that county, "the

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