Side lights on English history; . ed to be tooliberal. Certainly amiability could notgo further. . Were I thirty years younger I shouldhave a good enough opinion of myblood and my religion to imagine theywould think of me in England. Butas there is little chance of my survivingtwo persons much younger, althoughin poorer health than myself, it is tobe feared that after my death they willregard my sons as strangers, the elder,indeed, being much more inclined to-play the sovereign than the poor prince(jf Wales [the Pretender], who is tooyoung to profit by the example of theKing of France, and who


Side lights on English history; . ed to be tooliberal. Certainly amiability could notgo further. . Were I thirty years younger I shouldhave a good enough opinion of myblood and my religion to imagine theywould think of me in England. Butas there is little chance of my survivingtwo persons much younger, althoughin poorer health than myself, it is tobe feared that after my death they willregard my sons as strangers, the elder,indeed, being much more inclined to-play the sovereign than the poor prince(jf Wales [the Pretender], who is tooyoung to profit by the example of theKing of France, and who would belikely to be so glad at recovering whatthe King his father inconsiderately lostthat they might do whatever they pleasedwith him. But Prevention does every-thing in England, and to keep to whatyou say aliout it, without starting in tadiscuss it by letter I would say that mydaughter has dragged me here, whereshe has been taking the waters for threeweeks and that we start Monday to gaby way of Brussels to Holland, where. / OlHK IJurttJ,


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