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gone so far in the dark, had I not been oblig'd to it, by parti- cular business.

I shou'd have thought my self very happy if I cou'd have had the pleasure of waiting on your Lordship and my Lady there, but indeed I had great satisfaction in seeing that place so much improv'd since I was there last. (_The Gallery is a very magnificent room, now the pillars are up, and the gardens are extreamly improv'd by laying them open to the Park. I thought the cascade in the Court very handsome till I saw that in the Menagerie, which exceeds it very much and is indeed as handsome and as agreable as any I ever saw. It was the more surprizing to me because I did not expect it and did not think your lordship had such a command of water there, or that there was so large a fall J. . ..

��[Peter Wentworth.]

LON DOl<!, January 25, 1726. Dear Brother,

According to my promise I send you the sequel of the debate in the house of Lords. After Lord Townsend had done speaking then the Duke of Rutland got up and said two or three words by way of form to third the Address ; then Lord Bathurst got up and said his fears of a war was increased since he had heard what Lord Townsend said in expassiating upon the ingratitude of the Emperor who was sounding the alarm every where to battle, and as one lord had taken notice of the mismanagement of the last war, he wou'd of the ill management of the ministry of the mony in a long peace, which made us not in so good a condition as we shou'd be to enter into a new war ; and he was for Englishmen warding off the insults and menaces of Foreign I'owers not only with words but blows. He had not in the least any distrust of the King, but of his ministry he confest he had, and that 'twas the right of every member of parlia- ment to find fault with them. He thought there was no accation to have any mention made of the Pretender to rease

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