seem'd to make a difficulty of. But when I came to spcake of the equipage mony he hum'd and hau'd strangely, and at last said there was the only difficulty, that cxpences of the forreign ministers was strangely grown since this Queen's Reign, and espicially those that were upon the establisment of the Hague, that he thought the Treasury wou'd think of saving the Queen what they cou'd, but nothing of that wou'd be determin'd till Mr. Harley came abroad. I said 'twou'd be hard to make you the first instance of their good husbandry, and what thought you had had equipage mony 'twas so long since that it might reasonable be supposed to be wore out. He wisht you the whole but he fear'd 'twou'd be but half. I made him promise not to neglect puting Mr, St. Johns in mind not to neglect representing the matter as favourably and as soon as possible to Mr. Harley. Lord Townsends
landed last night and to day I saw Horace W * who tells
me he left you well at the Hague, but that the Packet met with a Flushing privateer wch she took for a French, and threw her letters over board, so that you will have the trouble of writing your letters over again, for 'tis expected to hear from the Hague every post. Mr. Tilson told me some time agoe you cou'd not do as at Berlin writ but once a week. Mr. Lewis says too people are very uneasie if they mis a post from Holland. The Queen went out to day to take the air and before she went out Lord Townsend came to kiss her hand, I have been to wish Lord Windsor [joy.'] of his regiment, and told him the town said Masham wou'd have Wood's when he died, but my Lord said Masham did assure him had quited all thoughts of the Army, and to put him off with this regiment to get Woods wou'd not be using him well. The Place most people say Masham will have is Cofferer, and the talk of his being made a Peer is revived again.
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��* Horatio Walpole, the diplomatist, brother of Sir Robert. His more famous nephew, Horace, was born in 1717,
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