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and for whom there is nothing to be 
said. I have long wished to convince 
you of your errors, which might have 
been of use to you, and some satisfac- 
tion to me: but since that can’t be, ft 
must be contented with the right and 
kind part that I know I have acted to 
you and to ali my family. And now 
1 am persuaded, that *tis best for you 
never to be imade sensible of what has 
been so unlucky to you, by your own 
fault. But as for your seeing of me, I 
must desire to-be excused ; for’ that 
cannot be of any use to either of us, 
since I am determined that nobody that 
will not enter into what concerns me 
so much, shall ever enter into any part 
of my fortune. But I wish you all the 
liappiness you propose from your other 
friends, notwithstanding the disap- 
pointments of 
Your very ill-treated grandmother, 
S. MARLBOROUGH. 
S. Marlborough to Mr. Davis. 
London, March 9¢ 6, 1737. 
My. Davis,—I don’t write this to you 
with any desire to constrain you, but to 
convince you, if I can, that, besides the 
misfortune of contributing to the choice 
of any member that will certainly, from 
their folly, and the present interest 
even of a small pension, will give their 
votes to make us slaves to France, 
which is just coming upou us; you can- 
not hurt yourself in voting according 
to reason, and making what interest 
you can for the member the Duke of 
Marlborough recommends ; for if he 
were not, as Lam sure he is, a perfectly 
honest man, his stake is too great in 
this country not to endeavour to save it 
from arbitrary power of any kind, and 
if you were a man that would consider 
present interest before doing what is 
certainly right, you could not Jose any 
thing by it; because your character, 
and superior genins in your trade, will 
preserve all the custom that you can 
esire, and you can lose nothing by 
heing in the right, but a family of idi- 
ots, some of which, it is very probable, 
will never pay you. There are a great 
many instances of the folly of this fa- 
mily of idiots, who value themselves on 
being bastards of a player. Iwill only 
instance one this time. The Duke of 
St. Albans has sent to my keepers, to 
make an interest for his brother in this 
election, who must starve, and their fa- 
milies, if I turn’d ’em out: because 
the minister has taken away the allow- 
ance | havea right to, and out of which 
they were formerly paid, and have been 
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paid ever since King Charles the Second 
came to the crown. I am told, that 
the keepers asked the idiot, how he 
would like to have his servants desir’d 
to be in any thing against him? To 
which the idiot replied, according to his 
way of reasoning, that I could live but 
a very little while, and if they did not 
make all the interest they could for his 
brother, he would turn ’em all out. 
This is an account that, I think, must 
be true, because the Duke of St. Albans 
is an idiot, aud a worthless one. And 
to shew it more fully, when I die, the 
Lodge in the Little Park is the Duke 
of Marlborough’s, aud that in the Great 
Park, John Spencer’s. And yet the 
idiot says, he will turn out all the keep- 
ers when I am dead, which, he says, 
must happen soon. I will say no more 
than that Thursday se’nnight is the 
day it will come on in Parliament, the 
question, whether England shall be a 
people, or whether it must submit to 
France and Spain ? and so far you are 
guilty, as you make an interest or vote 
for the family of the idiots, who have, 
and always will be, directed by those 
who, for their own private views, have 
betrayed the interest of their country. 
I have told you nothing but the strict 
trath, and am Your friend, 
S. MARLBOROUGH. 
To Mr. Davis, 
Smith, at Windsor, 
S. Marlborough to Mr. Davis. 
Wimbledon, Sunday, the 28th July. 
Mr. Davis,—I write this to let you 
know that I have received an order 
from the Duke of Newcastle to let the 
Duke of St. Albans have a key to go 
thro’ the House-Park at Windsor. He 
is, by the King’s order, only to go on 
horse-back, or in a one-horse chaise. I 
desire you will therefore make a proper 
key for him. I don’t know what the 
price is; but let it be ever so inconsi- 
derable, as this is certainly an unrea- 
sonable imposition, and what-no one 
that ever lived in the keep had before, 
tho’ I can’t dispute with the King’s let- 
ting any body he pleases have a key to 
go thro’ the Park, yet I won’t pay for 
the key. So that you must ask the 
Duke of St. Albans for that 3 which is 
so inconsiderable, that I only do it to 
shew I make no compliments; and 
comply, only because Lam fore’d. And 
his Majesty having taken away the al- 
lowance, which I have a grant for, and 
could recover by law, if that were ad- 
visable to try against Kings, I am not 
obliged to pay for keys to those that 
G have 
