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in love with peace, by ye same means have they been brought
from an indolent desponding submission to Hanover to arize
and exert themselves in y r cause. The same methods must
be pushed, and ye same topicks must be insisted upon, or the
spirit will dye away, and y r Maj ly will lose that popularity
which is, allow me to use the expression, the only expedient
that can bring about your restoration.
" I know what may be said, and what perhaps is said, that
the Nation is engag'd, and so many considerable men are
dipp'd, that popularity is the less to be regarded, that I
beseech y r Maj ty to take ye word of a faithful servant, and to
judg of me and others as you find this to be true or false.
If the present ferment is not kept up, if ye present hopes
and fears are not cultivated by an industrious application of
ye same honest art by which they were created, you will
find ye general zeal grow cool, and a new set of compounders
arise."] *
" The use made of all this is humbly to desire yr Maj ty
that you will please to let me have y r letters to ye Fleet and
Army, sign'd by yrself, and ye Declaration too if you shall
have approv'd it, and I will undertake in very few days to
have them printed off, so as to go with you, or in a day or
two after you. I will likewise send you by Cameron letters
for ye TJniversit)-s and City of London, which you will
please to return me, and they shall be ready too.
" Such copy of all these papers as your Maj ty leaves behind
you when they are printed, shall be sent several other ways
into England, and shall be instantly reprinted att London.
" I keep Zechy Hamilton, whom I shall trust alone in this
matter — for ye printer shall not know what he prints— and
he shall afterwards proceed to London, and take care of what
is to be done there.
" The Duke of Ormonde may go att ye time appointed, but
he may likewise be by some accident or other retarded, in all
events your Majesty shall have punctual and timely notice.
There is a story given out, which I can neither tell how to
beleive or disbeleive, of a design to attack ye D. of Ormonde
on the road. Mr. Murray will acquaint you with it.
" Certainly Hanover and his faction begin to think their
affairs in ill plight ; perhaps they may come to imagine that
they have nothing else for it but to intercept y r person.
* The bracketed portion has been published by Lord Stanhope in the
Appendix to his ■ History.'