LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 421 



" And, as far as I could judge by your Excel- 

 lency's discourses, her Majesty of Great Britain 

 cannot want the means to advance this impor- 

 tant affair by her consummate prudence, by her 

 great credit in England, and the laudable zeal 

 she has already shewn for enlarging and esta^ 

 hlishing the Protestant Church. And I believe 

 (if I may be allowed to give my opinion), that 

 the most certain and efficacious manner of faci- 

 litating this affair here, and also establishing a 

 profound esteem in all the reformed Churches, 

 for the Church of Great Britain, would be for 

 her Britannic Majesty to give that shining proof 

 of her royal bounty and gracious zeal, as to 

 procure, by her powerful solicitations, that 

 liberty of conscience and free exercise of reli- 

 gion to the poor reformed in Silesia, as the 

 Imperial Court has granted to the other Lu- 

 theran Protestants by the mediation of the King 

 of Sweden. And so many are the obligations 

 of the House of Austria to her Majesty of Great 

 Britain, that there is no doubt the Emperor 

 will pay the same respect to the gracious inter- 

 cessions of the Queen in favour of the reformed, 

 as he has done to the pressing instances of the 

 King of Sweden, in behalf of the Lutherans. 

 Dr. Robinson, the new Bishop of Bristol, who 

 was her Majesty's minister when that affair 

 was transacted between his Imperial Majesty 



