The Life And Letters Of John Locke PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ... stay at Ockham, and not come up to town; which he agreed to, and I did not go to London the next morning. Sunday, 24th.--At the Duke of Newcastle's, present the Duke, myself, Earl Godolphin, Sir R. Walpole, and Mr Pelham, Secretary of War. The end of our meeting was to consider of letters of Lord Townshend's from Hanover, whereby we were informed that the King of Prussia had ordered his forces to begin their march on such a day and to rendezvous at Magdeburg, and this was with an intention either to fall into Mecklenburg or the King's immediate territories; that the King had ordered all his forces in Hanover to be ready, which were about 22,000; had sent to the Landgrave of Hesse for the 12,000 men in his pay, had also sent to France, Holland, Denmark, and Sweden, and that if this matter went on, the King designed to have the same number of men from England as was upon a like occasion intended to have been had over under the conduct of the Earl of Orkney, and therefore ordered us to give an account what that number of men was, where the soldiers lay in the kingdom, and how soon a body of like number of men might be able to be sent over to Hanover. We agreed to send over to the King the last lists returned according to order into the War Office, by which his Majesty would see the number of the whole, and where quartered; that the number of men intended in the late King's time to have been sent over under Lord Orkney, was 10,000; viz. 7000 foot and 3000 horse, but what or how many of this force, or how many dragoons, was never settled; that the King would consider the troops were now dispersed, the horses at grass, and it was uncertain by what time vessels for embarkation might be got ready. But whenever his Majesty pleased to ive...