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42  return yet. Speculative people talk of a peace this winter, of which I can form no prospect, according to our demands.

J. SWIFT.

Your grace will please to direct your commands to me at St. James's coffeehouse, in St. James's-street.

REVEREND SIR,

HAVE yours of the 9th instant, and if the scheme of alteration holds, as represented, I despair of our twentieth parts in the present method; yet I can't think it proper to move in any new course, till the declaration of what is intended be more authentick. I have no good ground for my doubt; and yet in my own mind, I make some question, whether all things will be just as surmised. If I find this to be so in earnest, I will then endeavour to obtain an address to my lord treasurer, which, I suppose, has been hitherto wanting: but, if the matter stick on any considerations not agreeable, there is an end of it. To deal freely, I have very little hope of succeeding any way; but it will not make things worse to try the experiment. I under-