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 438 THE WENTWORTH PAPERS.

��[Lord Bathurst.]

ROS., November J, \7\^. My Lord,

I received the Honour of your Lordship's most obliging letter last night, which I wou'd not fail to take the first opportunity to answer, tho' I am not able to send you the least word of news from this place ; but I am going to morrow into Glostershire (where I design to stay some time to serve my friends att the next Elections) and I shou'd be less able to send you anything worth the reading from thence.

I have been but little in town of late, and the Discourses I have heard in the Country from all Ranks of people are not so proper to mention in a letter, only this, that the great ground of their dissatisfaction is that they think there wants

to be a proper person near the K who might shew him

the true interest of the Nation, and that he has yet heard only one side. I own I heartily wish that your Lordship were in England, you cannot easily imagine of what con- sequence itt might be, but when you consider that there has not yet been above one person of Consideration who has had any opportunity of laying the true state of matters before him, you will be more inclin'd to believe what I say.

The Duke of Sh is the only man that I know that has

■ had itt in his power to talk with him of one side, and whether he has had any great opportunity, or made all the use of itt that he might have done, is what I can't determine. The advantage your Lordship had of an easy conversation with him abroad, and of being Master of the Languages he speaks (which by the by has been a sad defect in some of our friends) might have had considerable effects.

You need not My Dear Lord have giv'n me any assurance in relation to your sticking firm to your Party. I know that you have too much Honour than to leave your friends, and too much understanding not to find out the ill consequences of itt. Those who have blam'd every thing which has been

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