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plainly he thought it shou'd be the last thing you ought to solicite for. The War in Spain wou'd be but just keept alive, for a Peace must come very soon, and it would be more for your Glory and advantage to be a Plenipotentiary at the Hague to conclude that then, to begin the Mettee {sic) of the war when both sides are so tired of it that a Peace must be very soon ; and if Lord Grey was sent he wou'd not have the com- mand of above two or three thousand men, and you wou'd not care to go with less powers then Stanhope. I told him they talk that the Duke of Argile wou'd go to command in Spain, and that the town said he wou'd not go without he had assurance of being well supported. If so that an Army shou'd be sent there 'twould be for the sake of the Duke of Argile, and not from a prospect of any progress we can make there by force of Arms ; the work must be done by treaty. And if it had not been resolved before the chances that has been at Berlin, to be sure now 'twas necessary you should not stay there long. I told him the Perticular regard the King himself had to you, that might be very true, but when Ministers had made themselves intimates with those in dis- grace their recall seemed to be natural, and he thought it very rediculous in the Dutch to lett Mr. Vryberg continue here who was in so deep with our late Ministry. In short I find by him there is no change in the resolution of your being to go to the Hague, so when I was with Lord Berkley he told me you had writ to him that you wou'd have nothing moved in th' other affair without there was any alteration in what had been signified to you. I was in the house of Lords yesterday and enquirery begins to cool a little there, for the house con- sented to what Lord Godolphin and Duke Marlborough pro- posed, that the Establishment and the Non effectives shou'd be referr'd to a select committee of the lords; but after that the Duke of Argile, and was second by lord North, open'd what an dishonour the Lord Golloway had done to the Imperial Crown of England by suffering the Portuguese army to take the right of us. The Duke of Bolton had told the house he had been to see Lord Gallway and found him sick in bed so that he could not be there to answer for him self. Argile said
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