Earls of Middleton, Lords of Clermont and of Fettercairn

Charles, Second Earl of Middleton.
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From Marlborough to M. de Villars.
[Translation.]
" Au Camp de St. Andre, 10 September, 1710.
" Sir,
" I have received the letter you did me the
honour of writing to me on the 7th of this month,
and return you very humble thanks for the obliging
manner with which you have interested yourself to
obtain permission for the Sieur Paget to retire from
Luxemburg to Paris. I should be delighted if in
return I could contribute to the liberty of my Lord
Middleton, whom you recommended to me in your
preceding letter. If it depended upon me, I assure
you, sir, that you should soon be relieved from impor-
tunity on his account ; but I own to you that the
reply I received from the Court to your first letter for
his exchange does not permit me to return to the
subject. I will not be prevented, however, on my
return to England, from doing my utmost to obtain
the liberty of a person for whom you are so anxious.
The good treatment which the Sieur Paget has
received may be of some use in inducing his relations
and friends to unite their endeavours to mine." 1
There are several letters from Middleton to Lamb
1 Marlborough's Despatches.