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256 the same time, I know nothing is so rash as predicting upon the events of publick councils; and I see many accidents very possible to happen which may soon defeat all my wise conjectures.

PARIS, APRIL 8, 1713.

RAY take this word writ after our packet is closed, and the messenger staying for it, as an equivalent for your dispatches at midnight when the writer was half asleep. Hang me if I know how to go on, though I am in a country where every body does not only write letters, but print them. Our great affair goes on very successfully. We transmit the Spanish treaty, concluded at Madrid, for your approbation in England, and transmission to Utrecht; after which, I think, pax sit will become authentick Latin: after which, I suppose, our society will flourish, and I shall have nothing to do but to partake of that universal protection, which it will receive. In the mean time, pray give my great respects to our brethren ; and tell them, that, while in