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 sat by me [said ?] that he smelt a Rat, and might be well of all sides if a change shou'd happen.

Governor Pits declared him self against every part of the Address, and for his part he [felt ?] that the Peace had left us in such a miserable condition that they ought to be thinking of another sort of an Address how to reduce the King of France in a condition, and to be the Arbitrator of Europe ; therefore he mov'd that an humble address be presented to her majesty, that her present Ministry shou'd be sent to France to be his Ministry for three years. This was a jest they say of Harry Killigrew's in the time of King Charles the 2'^ when 'twas suspected that his Ministry was in the Interest of France. In severall of their speechs they lay a stress upon the seperate articles being signed only by the Queen, wch gave away all the advantages of the treaty if there was any, and it was using her ill in advising her to sign what none of them darst.

I don't endeavour to recollect what was said for us because you know more then was said. We did not trouble ourselves niether to say much, for we knew our numbers, and so did the Whigs, for after all their violent speechs, they did not devide upon the question, but 'twas carried nemine contra- dicente ; wch when I wonder'd at a Member told me he saw it wou'd be so because he saw none of S'' Thomas Hanmer's squadron speak against it, and the whigs wou'd not devide to show how weak they were. A moderate Whig told me 'twas never design'd to have a devition but only to show the Queen she was not well served, and as she had made the Peace, wou'd do nothing to disturb her. You shall have the Narative very soon. I believe this will be the last stroak concerning the Peace, tho' they talk of battling it again when they come to the state of the nation. Some people think you happy to be out of this hurley, burrly, and that you are not let into the secreets of the different schemes of the several partys; others are of an other opinion.

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