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236 THE WENTWORTII TAPERS. letter to tell him he was out of all. The tories say this is something like, the Treasurer is now in earness; if he had begun this with him and the Duke of Sommerset, he wou'd never have lost so matterial a vote as he did in the house of lords, nor have been at the trouble to have desired the Queen to make use of her prerogative in so large an extent to bring above twelve lords into the house at once. The Whigs roar and cry this is altering the Constitution, and as for the affair of the Duke of M{[bar|2}} they cry shaking their heads, all for the better, this makes out plain what they have said the ministry is sure of a peace; but as they have this assurance from the French, whose faith is not to be relied upon, where are they shou'd they meet with a disappointment as to this perticular. Their reasonings pro and con wou'd be too impertinent for me to entertain you with, tho' you have blown upon my vanity to such a degree by commending my letters that I begin to think I can never be long enough. If I err therein I am soon crub'd (sic, curbed?), a word will do the business. The whigs pique themselves upon the finness of the Lords to spin out their debate till till they knew for what time the Commons was adjourn'd; and then for them to adjourn but for ten days they wou'd have time to have drawn up an address for giving the Duke of Cambridge place of all the Lords, wch was to be the preparation of inviting him over. The Queen can't adjourn either house, and to have prorogued the Parliament wou'd have been to begin all affairs de novo, and if she had desired the lords to have adjourn'd themselves 'twas fear'd she cou'd not have carried it, so there's this number of Lords made, wch will be a majority enough to carry all her majesty's reasonable desires. We shall see tomorrow if the Court will lett them endeavour to go on with the business they pretent to, or if a farther adjournment is desir'd.

The Scotch Lords sent their circular letters to all the Commons to meet them a Sunday night, and have drawn up a remonstrance against the resolution of the Lords in the affair of Duke Hambleton, and among other things they affirm this to be a breach of the Union. They say 'twas to be deliver'd to-day; as soon as 'tis 'twill be printed and