LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 431 



breathes such a spirit of British piety and 

 generosity, that it mightily affected and pleased 

 me, and hath given a new life to our hopes. 



** A few days after came a letter from Mr. 

 Bonet, the Prussian resident in Great Britain, 

 dated at London, March 1 7 ; in which he in- 

 forms his Majesty, that he had had a long con- 

 ference about our affairs with the Right Ho- 

 nourable Mr. St. John's, who expressed himself 

 very desirous that we should proceed in this 

 business, and generally offered the concurrent 

 assistances of her Majesty and the English 

 clergy. This letter is the more remarkable, in 

 that it gives us to understand, that Mr. St. John's 

 does not content himself with repeated declara- 

 tions that he would have the Church of England 

 keep up a brotherly correspondence with the 

 Church of Prussia, and be more closely united 

 to it, and such like general intimations of a 

 good disposition; but expressly affirms, that 

 iie is desirous this matter should be laid before 

 the King. And Mr. Bonet adds, that the Eng- 

 lish do not aim so much at a conformity in the 

 Liturgy, as in the Church government. By 

 which words the prudent minister, in short, 

 touches upon the very substance of the whole 

 affair. 



" Baron Printz communicated Mr. Bonet's 

 letter to the bishop and myself; but to each a 



12 



