FROM CHARLES FORD, ESQ.
I HOPE you did not pay the two shillings for postage. If you did, pray send me the cover that I may inquire into the meaning of it. I suppose you expect news upon Craggs's return from Hanover; but I do not hear a word more than what you have in the lords justices speech. Yesterday morning after he came, the whigs looked dejected, and our friends very much pleased; though I do not know any reason for either, unless it was expected by both sides, that he would have brought orders for alterations. It seems the dragon's entertainment was on a family account, upon the agreement between lord Harley and lord Pelham; and only those, who were concerned in their affairs, were invited. But slighter grounds would have served to raise a story at this time; and it was sufficient, that my lord Townshend and lord Cowper dined at his house. However, we look upon him as lost to our side; and he has certainly made advances of civility to the whigs, which they have returned with the utmost contempt. I am told dismal[2] begins to declare for his old friends, and protests he was really afraid for the protestant succession, which made him act in the manner he did. The foreign peers are certainly deprived of their
- ↑ On the back of this letter is the following note of the dean. "Memorandum, I left Ledcomb, Aug. 16, 1714, in order to Ireland."
- ↑ The earl of Nottingham.
