LETTERS OF PETER WENTWORTH. 9I
nothing else talk of, and I hold myself oblige to writ to you every post.*
London, i^June, 1709. Dear Brother,
Since you like the Tatler from the date hereof I'll send them you very regular and those that are past I'll make a collection of, and stay for an opportunity of sending them
with some other new Books I had the favour of a long
letter from Capt. Powlett \sic Powell ?], with an accurate discription of all the fine things he saw at Dresden, but there's few people I shall care to divert with the reading on't to them, because he has been a little too free with the character of my master, by a stroak or two of wit, and 'twou'd be imprudence in me to lett anybody have an opportunity to think I encourage such jests. I believe he's not yet come to Berlin. By the next post I shall return him thanks for his letter which was very diverting, but bating what I have men- tioned, tho' I don't know whether I had best give him any hint of it less, for one fault finding I loose the pleasure of his further journal which, if like the rest, will have a hundred beautys.
There's no news stiring, but to day I hear Brigadeer Whitham is disobliged, who was to gone Commander in cheif
- The following extracts from the French news letters sent to Lord
Raby may be of interest to some readers : —
Z-\\Juin, 1709.
" On a recu avis que Mr. Lumley, troisieme Fils du Comte de Scar- borough, jeune Homme qui promettoit beaucoup, avoit €\.€ tue d'un coup de canon, qui lui avoit emporte les deux jambes k bord de la Mary Galley^ qui avoit soutenu un rude combat dans la Mediterrande centre un vaisseau Fran9ois dont elle s'etoit debarrass^e. Mr. Lumley dtoit voluntaire dans le vaisseau qui conduisit la Reine de Portugal k Lisbone, et il recut de grandes marques d'estime de cette Princesse."
7-i8/7««, 1709.
" Vendredi dernier le Lord Blantire, et Mr. Drummond, tous deux Ecossois, se battirent k coups de Pistolet k Hampstead village k 4 miles d'ici ; et le sieur Drummond receut une Balle dans le Cot^ droit, mais la Blessure n'est pas mortelle."
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