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British Diplomacies, next to the Russian, cause some difficulties in those years: of which more by and by. Early in 1748, while Aix-la-Chapelle was starting, Ex-Exchequer Legge came to Berlin; on some obscure object of a small Patch of Principality, hanging loose during those Negotiations: "Could not we secure it for his Royal Highness of Cumberland, thinks your Majesty? " Ex-Exchequer Legge was here; [Coxe's -- Pelham, -- i. 431, &c.; Rodenbeck, pp. 155, 160 (first audience 1st May, 1748); -- recalled 22d November, Aix being over.] got handsome assurances of a general nature; but no furtherance towards his obscure, completely impracticable object; and went home in November following, to a new Parliamentary Career.
And the second year after, early in 1750, came Sir Hanbury Williams, famed London Wit of Walpole's circle, on objects which, in the main, were equally chimerical: "King of the Romans, much wanted; " "No Damage to your Majesty's Shipping from our British Privateers; " and the like; -- about which some notice, and not very much, will be due farther on. Here, in his own words, is Hanbury's Account of his First Audience: --