Stuart dynasty

338 THE STUART DYNASTY.
Paper IX.
Duke of Berwick to Chevalier de St. George.
(Extract.)
* m * It appears that Lord Oxford's Ministry were careful not
to commit themselves.
" St. Germain, Nov. 8, 1712.
" I goe to-morrow to Paris in hopes of seeing Sir
Thomas Hanmer, a leading member of the Tory-
administration in England, whom M. Phillips has
assured M. Bulkeley has a great mind to meet me.
I shall have the honour of giving your Majesty an
account of what he will say to me, though may be at
first he will be a little reserved, for I am told he is
so naturally."
Paper X.
Duke of Berwick to Chevalier de St. George.
(Extract.)
" Nov. 11, 1712.
" I went on "Wensday last at Paris, and made a
visit to Sir Thomas Hanmer, but it was in publick,
so that we could have no private conversation,
neither had it been fitting at first to seem to earnest
in speaking with him."
Paper XI.
Duke of Berwick to Chevalier de St. George.
*»* Several of the following extracts from the Duke of Ber-
wick's letters written in 1714 show how anxiously Marlhorough's