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 The Address the house of Commons have prepared to pre- sent the Queen to desire her to think of a second marryagc accations a world of discourse. The persons that move it help out the jest, Mr. Watson who is commonly called the fillet of veal was the first, little Lord Lumley was the second. Ash Windham the third, a young spark not less comical then either one of the other two* — as I am told, for I don't know him by sight The house came into it very unanimously, but I have heard gentlemen of both parties laught at it, some Torys pretend to say the Whigs have so deep designe in it ; but I think their shou'd be no more said ontill we hear the Queen's answer. Sometime ago the Queen in Council order'd the Prayers for her having childern to be put out and used no more.

I thought 'twas not proper for me to send you the Harwich Dream till I cou'd send you with it another sort of interpre- tation then the ill-natured auther wou'd have given to't, tho' this is not so good as it might have been, but it will have this good effect that it will pass upon the mob. 'Tis agreed by all pamphlet readers that there's nothing obscure in the Dream, but every one readily understands what the auther means, tho' at first I know the Bulky figure in white lay between the A. B. of C. and the B. of S. t ; but the B. of S. carries it clearly without dispute, for a long [time .-*] the letters (MMTU) was a pusseler, but now 'tis known to have no more in them then what you may find in the fifth Cap. of Daniel, mene mene tekel uphrasin, Hebrew words

[P.S.] Since I writ this I am told a great Peice of News that Mr. Addison is really a very great man with the juncto, and that he has got his elder brother, who has been a factor

Norfolk, Lord Lumley for Arundel. The latter's diminutive stature was the subject of frequent allusion. Juliana Wentworth in one of her letters reports an engagement between a " fine fair tall " daughter of Lord Portland and "that pigmy Lord Lumley." He died in April, 1710, of small-pox. Pope writes shortly afterwards, " Since the deaths of Lord Lumley and Mr. Lytton, I am one of the least men in England."
 * Edward Watson was member for Canterbury, Ash Windham for

t Archbishop Tenison, and Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, are probably the persons indicated.

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