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1712.1219.Fa

Paris. December the 19:^th 1712

My Lords.¹

I hold it my Duty to inform Your Excellencys that
I arrived here last Night, and am this Morning going to
Versailles. My Lord Strafford will have informed Lord Privy
Seal of the orders with which I am charged and Your
Excellencies will, I hope, send me as soon as poſsible, and
in a particular manner the State of the Negociation be­
tween Us and the French Nation, in regard to the Limits of
Newfoundland and to the heads of Commerce, that I may
aſsist accordingly at this Court; towards the forming of that
Treaty here which I hope your Excellencies will happily
and soon compleat at Utrecht. I expect daily to hear that
Lord Strafford has found our Friends the States sensible of
the Queens goodneſs to them and willing to enter into the
measures proposed by Her Majesty towards the contentm:^t
of all Parties on that side, which is the only method of
making the whole Negociation easy; I expect the Duke
of Shrewsbury here in a Week and against his coming
would very gladly have Your Excellency's Directions which
shal be always obeyed with great respect by

My Lords,
Your Excellencys
most Obedient & most
humble Servant.

M:P

I beg that one of
your Secretaries would
every Post send me all
the Gazetts of your free
Speaking Provinces, which
thô a Trifle will be of some
uſe here.

Notes
1.
Although the letterbook copy lacks an address, both of the other manuscript copies are labeled as from Prior to the Plenipotentiaries.

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