sure of itt. Lord Malton is very much vexed att bonefires which are made att every little town round about ; never such bonefires and rejoyceing I never see upon any occasion, and people gives money to drink. 'Tis reported Turner is dead, but I can't affirm itt ; but, if so, Mr. Wortley will out poll Sir Rowland 1000 men.
[Peter Wentworth.]
Kensington, July 30, 1734. Dear Brother,
Of late I am much pleased with my son George's letters,* and they please the Duke [of Cumberland] who shows them the King and Queen, and he has desired me to let him see every letter he sends me from the army. The Queen told me she believed now my son wou'd do well, and did not think me in the wrong to have forgiven him so soon. In his letter to his brother he's a little too free in his censures upon the Germains at Berlin ; when I gave them Mr. Pointz to read I left it to his descretion whether he would show it to the Duke, he told me he had read it to them, for he knew 'twou'd only make them laugh, and he had cause for his resentment for his ill reception at Berlin, and hoped Lord Strafford wou'd write letters of thanks to Count Dagentfelt and Prince Maximilian, which wou'd have a good effect for George. The same thing General Diemar said to me when I desired he wou'd convey my letter to Prince Max, which he accepted readily and said in his letter he wou'd add some words in my son's favour. He knew you was acquainted with Prince
M at the Hague, he said ensign's pay was but smal in
Germany, and we shou'd allow him something. I said I believed and' hoped you wou'd allow him twenty pound a year, for you talk'd of doing of it when at Berlin. He said that wou'd do well, and the young man deserved encourage- ment. I never fail of taking all opportunities of speaking
- George Wentworth, born about 1702, was a god-son of the Duke of
Ormonde. He was at this time encamped on the Rhine with one of the German armies. In 1738 we hear of him fighting the Turks on the Danube.
�� �
