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Hague, 27th October 1730

My Dear Lord, I have no other excuse for troubling you now, but to recommend to your protection a young fellow, who was some time with me at The Hague, I mean mr. Hammond⁵¹, who I suppose has already been to pay his duty to you, and in whose favour I promis'd to write to you long ago. He has extream good parts, and a great deal of learning but they are hid, under an uncommon bashfullness and mauvaise honte. If by giving him leave to frequent you, you give him an opportunity of growing less awkward and bashfull, you will do him a singular piece of service, and which I really think he deserves. I heartily congratulate you upon the success you have had in the affair of Dunkirk⁵², I hope the promises will be performed before the meeting of the Parliament⁵³. We expect with the utmost impatience here some account of monsieur de Castellar, in hopes of knowing then, what we are to trust to.

Sir Luke Schaub sett out from hence yesterdaymorning for Dresden⁵⁴.

It is impossible to be with more truth and regard, My Dear Lord - - -

51 Hammond had served as Chesterfield's secretary.

52 British demands that France observe her promises to destroy illegal repairs to the harbour of the privateering port of Dunkirk were pressed throughout the summer and autumn of 1730. Horatio Walpole to Poynt, 21 May 1730 OS, BL, Althorp papers, num. E4; Waldegrave journal, 12, 23, 28 Aug., 1, 2 Sept., Charles Delafaye, Undersecretary in the Southern Department, to Waldegrave, 27 July OS, 10, 20 Aug. OS, 11 Sept. OS, 5, 15 Oct. 1730 OS, Chewton, Sir Robert Walpole to Newcastle, 3 July OS, Newcastle to Harrington and Poyntz, 28 May OS, Newcastle to Harrington, Poyntz and Horatio Walpole, 4 June OS, Newcastle to Poyntz, Horatio Walpole and Waldegrave, 29 June OS, 28 Aug. OS, Harrington and Poyntz to Newcastle, 3 June, Horatio Walpole to Newcastle, 10 Sept. 1730, BL, Add., num. 32687, 32767, 32769; Chammorel, French chargé d'affaires in London, to Chauvelin, 5, 26 June, 31 July, Horatio Walpole to cardinal Fleury, the leading French minister, 21 June 1730, AE, CP Ang., num. 370, and MD France, num. 459.

53 There was concern over a parliamentary storm if the Dunkirk repairs were not demolished, Delafaye to Poyntz, 24 Aug. 1730 OS, BL, Althorp, num. E5. The opposition press made much of the issue. Delafaye to Waldegrave, 21 Dec. OS 1730, Chewton; Craftsman, 3, 24, 31 Oct. OS, 21, 28 Nov. OS, 5, 28 Dec. OS; Fog's Weekly Journal, 10 Oct. 1730 OS.

54 Sir Luke Schaub, a Swiss Protestant in Hanoverian service who had served as British ambassador in Paris 1721-1724, sent on a special mission to Saxony-Poland in 1730-1731.