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very well, and since the Commons comes so heartily in to give the Supply there's no fear any forreign Power dare invade us.
I am told the Duke of Warton is one of the Perjured ad- herents meant. He has been very bussy at Vienna, informing them of the state of the nation, which if true is horrid for any Englishman to be guilty of. A man may be disobliged by some perticular People, but that he should carry his resentment so far, as to do anything that might tend to the ruin of his country (sic).
��[Lady Strafford.]
St. James's Square, May 22, 1729.
Col. Cissell was here this morning. I went to Kensington a tusday with Lady Hartington ; there was a good deale of company. The Queen came up directly to us and talked to us both a good deal and seemed in very good humoure. The Prince gave a ball last night in the Island in St. James Park.
May 25, 1729.
There is every night three tables. The Queen's party is the same every night, the Queen, Princess Royall, Lady Char Ronsey (.-') and Mr. Chursts (?) ; and the Princess Emely, Duchess of Dorset, L. Dela Rain, and I ; at the third table Princess Carl, Lady Hillsborough, Lady Betty Garmain and L. Ann Lumly ; and in the outer room was a commerce table that play'd the Prince, six maides. Lord Ashburnham, Coll. Townsend and Coll. Paget.
��[Lord Wentworth.]
London, May 26, 1729. Dear Pappa,
I should be very glad to hear you was pleas'd with my letter, I have obey'd your command in walking in the peark
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