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Lordship might be going out of town, before you could be
in the way to wait on him. But that apprehension is
pretty well banished by the great event of day, which
I mention because you can hardly have it in the papers.
Ld North acquainted the house this afternoon, that
tomorrow he should lay before them a Memorial of
the Spanish Ambassador's, in the course of which
his Excellency mentioned his having received letters of
recall - A Spanish war therefore is certain. Mr
Burke thereupon got up and made a long speech
and at the end of it a motion for an enquiry
into the state of the nation
I forgot to tell you that Burkit is too be in
town the 20th, & will call on me.
It will hardly be worth while travelling post —
it were better to go down to Ld Sh's in the country.
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