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proper place for doing it) to declare to the 

 world, and accordingly it is here solemnly affirmed, 

 that in all their private conversations, as they 

 appear in the Diary, there is not the least ground 

 to suspect, that her Majesty was not fully satis- 

 fied in the Act of Settlement, and firmly attached 

 to the present Constitution and Establishment, 

 both in Church and State ; nor is there the least 

 intimation or suggestion of any kind for the interests 

 of the Pretender. And but a single passage in 

 which their discourse occasionally turned upon 

 him, and that too upon his Grace's own motion, 

 who seemed designedly to sound her sentiments 

 and inclinations upon the subject, that he might 

 do her justice among those who appeared to be 

 jealous of her. The entire passage is this. 



1708-9. Saturday, February 5. " I had a 

 great deal of talk about public affairs. I told 

 her that the great jealousy of the nation was, 

 that some people were too much inclined to the 

 Prince of Wales. That all our fears were about 

 Popery, and the eluding the Protestant succes- 

 sion, as established by law. She declared, that 

 she verily believed all sorts of people in the 

 nation, whether Whigs or Tories, were inclined 

 to the Hanover family, as is settled by law. 

 And that she knew none of her ministers, but were 

 in the same interest. I am sure I interpreted her 

 words to this sense. She seemed to adhere to 



