LETTERS OF PETF.R WKN IWORTH. 21/
can't braij of many men of spirit and parts heartily imbark't in their interest, besides your self There is in one of the Gazet a la )>iaiii a relation of high words that has past between >-ou and the Emperour's Envoy, and upon the reading of that passage 'tis the cry of every body there's [no] body so fit to manage a Germain Count as my Lord Strafford. The Torys cry, if we shrink now and don't go thro' with the Peace they are undone, the Whigs will get up again, and these latter seem to be in some hopes this will be the case, that there's so many of the Allies to satisfie, that it will be almost impossible to make a fast, honourable, and lasting Peace in any short time. If the conclussion shou'd be spun out into any length, they wou'd desire no better, for they are alert and active, and don't doubt but to be able to disturb and confound matters so as to break of this treaty, and get it once more in to their own hands. But I have been told by one that is a well wisher to you, that peace is very sure, the French offering everything that Eng- land and Holland can desire, and told me a great deal of
discourse that Mons"' Buys and Lord T had together, and
his lordship drive Mons'^ Buys so close with his arguments that he did as good as own he cou'd have nothing to answere against the security the French wou'd give, and that nothing pinch him, but that the Negociation did not begin first with them.
This my Author seem'd to have from so good Authority that he desir'd I wou'd not mention a word of what I heard, for fear it shou'd be guest from whence he had it; but writing it to you I reckon no breach of promise, for if true you know it already, if not you may know how they banter Parliament men, such a one was he that told me. Mr. Bretain told me a Sunday that he believe he shou'd go to Berlin, and he wou'd wait upon you for your instructions ; 'tis Mr. St. Johns that's his friend, and I am told he has stickled up much for his being Governer of Barwick, but since that won't do, he has got him this. This is a scandalous town we live in, who will not allow he has made this friendship whole himself by his drinking v/ith Mr. St. Johns, but that he has taken his wife to
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