LETTERS OF PETER WENTWORTII. 3OI
retarding of the peace by the impertinent business of Count Rechtcren, a publick one and the other private. The first I need not mention, the other you may easily guess is because I must be soe much longer without seeing you. Mr. Powell was soe kind to send me from Amsterdam that Count's factum, which hath confirm'd in the thought I had before of his being intirely in the wrong. I was last Sunday at Windsor. The Queen did not goe to church, but came out after into the drawing room looking very well, tho' she had not been soe the week before with a cold, and the reason of her not going to church was a touch of the gout in her foot. I am sory to see she grows fatter. They doe not say a word of her removing from Windsor. Last week a fancy was taken that the peace would be proclaim'd on Thursday. What grounds they went upon I cannot imagine, but hope it is not far off. One of the notorious inventions of the Whigs is the new Duke of Gloucester they have rais'd in France ; their policy consists in nothing but inventing lyes. What they will doe this Winter I doe not comprehend. I wish I could send you conjectures for want of intelligence, for I hear nothing in this empty town where I see noe body, and had it not been for my thanks for your kind letter of the 30th new stile, you would not have been troubled so soon with your Lordships most obedient, &c.
��[Peter Wentworth.]
Windsor, October t, 1712. Dear Brother,
By the favour of yours of the nth I find Mr. Taylor was return'd, which if I knew anything of his going again I cou'd have sent you papers of both sides, some arguing that there can be no peace safe without our Allies all come into it. Others argue on the contrary that we shall have a fine time of it, if all the world shall be at war but ourselves, then will trade flourish, and our only rivals in that, the Dutch, will receive a mighty disadvantage, by leaving us at liberty to
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