mony in his hands, which I think should make peaple very carfuU of trusting to goldsmiths. The Duke of Ormond is still here but he is to goe very soon. The Duchess of Shrews- bery is at present very happy, for Coll, Murry is come from Scotland with whom the town says she has an intreague. She is in that as she is in all othere things not in the common way ; for last week in the Drawing room Coll. Murry cam in so she run to every body she knew. " Oh ! " says she, " here is Coll. Murry, the town says I have an intreague with him, so I should not give him any of my pretty kind eyes, but I will and smile upon him two." You desired all the Chitter Chatter I heard, so in obedience to your Excellency's commands I doe, tho' I write nonsence.
��[Peter Wentworth.]
London, ^/rz7 4, 1712.
.... There's a great goldsmith broak, Lun, he had six thousand of Secretary St. John's mony, and as much of Lord Landsdown's ; he has rained a great many people.
The Whigs seem to be mightily pleased, for they are pretty sure there will be noe peace this year, and then they expect all to come in again ; but others say they do but flatter themselves in one and th' other.
��April Z, 17 12.
. . You find by the votes that the house of Commons are very angry with the Author of the Daily Currant, for they don't allow it to be any real memorial publisht by the Dutch. Saturday the Queen sent a letter to the Atturney General about the two and a half per cent, taken by the Duke of
M , and voted by the house of Commons to be publick
mony, as such to recover it for the publick by law. Out of the October Club there's sprung a new one call'd the March Club ; they call themselves the Primative October men, and are resolved to take no places, and are provoked that the
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