naging the Treaty, with my best Care and Abilities, and my shewing my self with the utmost Zeal and Respect, both to my King, my Country, and your Lordship,
a most faithful Subject,
Friend and Servant,
Stanhope.
To the Lord Treasurer, &c.
Rome, Nov. 7, 1997.
My Lord,
YOUR second Express which followed close on the Heels of the first, found me here just settled in a most handsome and convenient House, assign'd by his Holiness a Day or two after my first Audience, on the 3d Instant, which past to my entire Satisfaction. The Pope, to say Truth, how heartily soever he wishes our Destruction, as the great Bulwark of the Protestant Cause and Interest; yet is so sensible of his Majesty's Wisdom and Power, and the vast Ascendant his Fleets andArms
