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Addressed:
M.^r Prior


Whitehall 10.^th Sep.^r 1712.

Sir

The Memorial of the Marquis du
Quesne which you have inclosed¹ I send
you at his earnest request. His case, as
you will see, is so just, and what he
desires seems to be so feasible, that I
cannot but recommend it particularly
to you to endeavour by the Marquis
de Torcy to get it granted. I have
known that Gentleman my self a
long time, & have a great value for
him, & his son is actually at present
a Guidon in one of her Ma:^ty's
Troops of Guards; which may serve
as some argument to facilitate the
obtaining what he sollicites. If the
Father should write to you upon this
occasion I doubt not but you will receive
his Letters kindly, & do him all the
Service you can upon my account.

I send you a Copy of the Letter
I write to Mo.^r de Pontchartrain, in which
there are several Points that may require
your discoursing with that Minister.
The Case of John Winne is extracted
out of a Letter which that Poor man
writ to me from Marseilles.

The Article of your Letter to my
Lord Dartmouth of the 29 Aug.^t/9 Sep^r
concerning the omiſsion of the words
Mers Britanniques² in one part of
the Convention for a Suspension of
Arms is transmitted to My Lords
Plenipotentiarys at Utrecht to let
them see the Sence of the Court
of France upon it.

I am
Sir
Your most humble
Servant

Bolingbroke.

Notes
1.
This four-page French document, entitled "Memoire du Marquis du Quesne" and dated "À Geneve le 19.^e Août 1712", is found in the letterbook immediately after Bolingbroke's letter. It is not transcribed here.
2.
The underscoring is the scribe's.

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