and Holland.  Sir R. begged they would defer asking for those of Prussia till the end of January, at which time a negotiation would be at an end with that King, which now he might break off, if he knew it was to be made public.  Mr. Pultney persisted; but his obstinacy, which might be so prejudicial to the public, revolted even his own partisans, and seven of them spoke against him.  We carried that question by twenty-four; and another by twenty-one, against sitting on the next day (Saturday).  Monday and Tuesday we went on the Westminster election.  Murray (365) spoke divinely; he Was their counsel.  Lloyd (366) answered him extremely well:  but on summing up the evidence on both sides, and in his reply, Murray was in short, beyond what was ever heard at the bar.That day (Tuesday) we went on the merits of the cause, and at ten at night divided, and lost it.  They had 220, we 216; so that the election was declared void.  You see four is a fortunate number to them.  We had forty-one more members in town, who would not, or could not come down.  The time. is a touchstone for wavering consciences.  All the arts, money, promises, threats,, all the arts of the. former year 41, are applied; and self-interest, in the shape of Scotch members-nay, and of English ones, operates to the aid of their party, and to the defeat of ours.  Lord Doneraile,(367) a young Irishman, brought in by the court, was petitioned against, though his competitor had but one vote.  This young man spoke as well as ever any one spoke in his own defence insisted on the petition being heard, and concluded with declaring, that, “his cause was his Defence, and Impartiality must be his support.”  Do you know that, after this, he went and engaged if they would withdraw the petition, to vote with them in the Westminster affair!  His friends reproached him so strongly with his meanness, that he was shocked, and went to Mr. Pultney to get off; Mr. P. told him he had given him his honour, and he would not release him, though Lord Doneraile declared it was against his conscience:  but he voted with them, and lost us the next question which they put (for censuring the High Bailiff) by his single vote; for in that the numbers were 217 against 215:  the alteration of his vote would have made it even; and then the Speaker, I suppose, would have chosen the merciful side, and decided for us.  After this, Mr. Pultney, with an affected humanity, agreed to commit the High Bailiff only to the serjeant-at-arms.  Then, by a majority of six, they voted that the soldiers, who had been sent for after the poll was closed, to save Lord Sundon’s (368) life, had come in a military and illegal manner, and influenced the election.  In short, they determined, as Mr. Murray had dictated to them, that no civil magistrate, on any pretence whatsoever, though he may not be able to suppress even a riot by the assistance of the militia and constables, may call in the aid of the army.  Is not this doing the work of the Jacobites? have they any other