NEVER knew or heard of any Perfon fo volatile and fo fixt as your Lordship: You, while your Imagination is carrying you through every Corner of the World where you have, or have not been, can at the fame Time remember to do Offices of Favour and Kindness to the meanest of your Friends; and in all the Scenes you have paffed, have not been able to attain that one Quality peculiar to a great Man, of forgetting every Thing but Injuries. Of this I am a living Witness against you, for being the moft infignificant of all your old humble Servants, you were fo cruel as never to give me Time to ask a Favour, but prevented me in doing whatever you thought I defired, or could be for my Credit or Advantage. I HAVE often admired at the Capriciousness of Fortune, in regard to your Lordship. She hath forced Courts to act against their oldest, and most constant Maxims; to make you a General, because you had Courage and Conduct; an Ambaffador, because you had Wisdom and Knowledge in the Interefts Interests of Europe; and an Admiral, on Account of your Skill in maritime Affairs; whereas according to the ufual Method of Court Proceedings, I should have been at the Head of the Army, and you of the Church, or rather a Curate under the Dean of St. Patrick's. you may THE Archbishop of Dublin laments that he did not fee your Lordship till he was just upon the Point of leaving the Bath; I pray GOD have found Succefs in that Journey, elfe I fhall continue to think there is a Fatality in all your Lordship's Undertakings, which only terminate in your own Honour, and the Good of the Publick, without the leaft Advantage to your Health or Fortune. I REMEMBER Lord Oxford's Ministry used to tell me, that not knowing where to write to you, they were forced to write at you. It is fo with me, for you are in one Thing an Evangelical Man, that you know not where to lay your Head, and I think you have no House. Pray my Lord write to me, that I may have the Pleasure in this enslaved Country, of going about, and fhewing my depending Parfons a Letter from the Earl of Peterborough. I am, &c. * Dr. KING. A TREA |
