that they may make some use of that to cast a Blame somewhere, but I don't find those who were concern'd in itt here under any uneasiness upon that account; 'tis said your Lordship has Orders to lay itt before his Majesty. I hope and I don't in the least doubt but what ever your Lordship has been concern'd in the more itt is enquir'd into will the more redound to your Honour, and I wish as earnestly that nothing may happen to give any alterations to those matters you have been att so much pains in settling. We have some here who begin already to talk of a new war, but surely they must either be very ignorant of the condition of their Country or else maliciously bent upon its ruin. For my own part I don't fear such designs and therefore will trouble your Lordship no longer but only to assure you that I am, &c.
[Lord Berkeley of Stratton.]
August 13, 1714.
It was very kind in your Lordship to think of me in your affliction, wherein I take a very large share, without the least regard to my own interest, which I have not had leisure to think on, tho' busied with nothing but the melancholy thoughts of the loss of our good Princess. It is a great satisfaction to hear from your Lordship and not from flatterers, that we have soe wise a Prince, able I hope to see through the malicious representations he hath been plyed with, and now convinc'd by the unanimity that hath appear'd, of the falseness of them. The Lords Justices sit very close, and I suppose doe a great deal of business. The Council have little to doe, but expect every hour to hear when the King comes. You heard I don't doubt, of the fine entry of the D. of M——. I have heard little of him since, but that he is gone to the Bath. The Dr. you mean I suppose is Arbuthnot. The lady his friend, I never made court to, which frees me from taking any notice of her now. They say the Queen was very loath to part with the late Treasurer, but was teas'd into it. Most of those call'd Tories were very warm against
