428 THE WENTWORTH PAPERS.
the 1 2th came first. I doe imagine your Lordship does not sit very easily with what you hear every post, and I am not very Hkely to settle your mind, seldom having accounts I can depend upon till things are done. You may believe I am very attentive to any thing that relates to your Lordship, but I can gather nothing, but that the whigs are inveterate against you ; but I reckon much of their spleen will evaporate in words, and since the bishop of London is taken into the Councell, I know nothing you can be accus'd of, of which he is not a sharer. As for quitting, it is what noe one body hath yet done, unwilling I suppose to be thought to slight the service, or mov'd by the noble example of those who, four years agoe, would quit none of their imployments till they were turn'd out.
I own I wish you still some imployment abroad, it being what you are used to, and is more out of the strugle of parties then anything, and I would choose France for you, because I believe I should make you a visit there, I look upon myself as out, since I am left out of the Council and am inform'd that Lord Stamford hath had the offer of my place, but he insisted upon being Commissioner of Trade with it, as he formerly was, and this I suppose is the true reason of my hearing nothing yet about myself They said yesterday that all the bedchamber was nam'd except the groom of the stole, which lies between the Dukes of Shrewsbury and Marl- borough.
The names I heard were the D. of Richmond and Grafton, Lords Manchester, Selkirk, Stairs, and Carteret, Lincoln, but I am not sure this is true.
The ranks were not soe well kept at the entry as they should have been, and you might have been there without the mortification of going behind the Scotch, but the coronation will be more strict. The D. of Marl, hath the honour of all these changes, and is most fearfully rail'd at, but I own I am more upon the reserve, since I see soe many who are not asham'd to strike up with those they have abus'd but the day before. As fit as Mr. Stanhope may be for his post, the generality are noe more pleas'd with it, then with Cadogan's
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