OF THE REIGN OF GEORGE THE SECOND, FROM HIS ACCESSION TO THE DEATH OF QUEEN CAROLINE. BY JOHN, LORD HERVEY. EDITED, FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT AT ICKWORTH, BY THE RIGHT HON. JOHN WILSON CROKER, IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1848. SOME MATERIALS TOWARDS MEMOIRS OF THE REIGN OF KING GEORGE THE SECOND. CHAPTER XX. Foreign Affairs-Plan of pacification-Rejected by Fleury, and why-Negotiations and mediation of England and Holland-King at Hanover exercises rights by law delegated to the Regent in England-Lady Suffolk marries Mr. Berkeley-Her behaviour on retiring-Her former behaviour -Squabble with her husband-King sees Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, and fixes on her for the Prince of Wales-The Prince's amours, rupture, and negotiation with Miss Vane-His attachment to Lady Archibald Hamilton-Her character-Lord Hervey assists Miss Vane. In order to give an account of the posture of foreign affairs during this summer, it is necessary for me to go a little back. On the 17th of February, 1735, the long-expected plan of accommodation' was at last delivered out to the Ministers of the several Courts whose interests were concerned in it, and the principal articles of it were these:— That Stanislaus should keep the title of King of Poland, and renounce all pretensions to the kingdom. 1 Proposed by England and Holland as mediators. VOL. II. B |