and told them that the night before there was a courier arriv'd from France and that all was agreed to — the King of France having left all matters in dispute to the Queen and that now the house wou'd set to do business.
How the Whigs came to know it the Lord know ; but they laid wagers that the Queen wou'd not go this day to the house and that the house wou'd not set to do business, so that all
the hearty Tories that my Lord T did the favour to speak
to have lost their mony, and are laught at into the bargain. They begin now to murmur much and not to understand the jest of such bites.
The Queen was abroad in her chair Friday and Saturday, and she look't very well, and I hope to God she's so. 'Twas in order to use herself to the air to be able to go to the house to day as was given out, but since she did not go that banter has been much censurer {sic).
[Lord Berkeley of Stratton.]
March 6, 1713.
A letter from your Lordship at this time was as unexpected as it was kind to furnish me with some answers to the imper- tinencies one meets with every day, for though I avoid as much as possible all politick disputes I am glad to give some reasons why I am not of some people's minds, who deliver their notions with an air, as if they were unanswerable. What your Lordship says for the cessation of arms is enough to satisfy any impartial man who must think that Dunkirk is equal to the advantages of any of our glorious campaigns. I hope the new King of Prussia is more humane then he was represented, since he makes such court to you. I have heard that he peaks himself upon being a great friend of the D. of Marlborough. We are told that two new Kings are to be made at Utrecht, a title that will grow almost as common as that of Duke here, and majesty will be noe longer a dis- tinction.
We were again disappointed on Tuesday and soe was' the whole town, for I never saw a greater crowd then was at
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