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Majesty allow me to say to you, that I hope this Event will show that the University is not so unreasonable as they may some time ago have been represented to your Majesty. The warmest Men of a Party who would have been named upon this occasion were drop't immediately, and their Choice will probably fall upon a person whom the most Temperate of the University- would chuse. The King said with a Smile, they have been unreasonable enough, I replied Sir, I have seen that with great Concern, and indeed more for their Sakes, than for your Majesty's Your Interests could not not be much affected by what they could do, But their own suffered essentially, The King said indeed they have hurt themselves more than me. They have hurt themselves very much. I said Sir, may I take the Liberty to say to your Majesty that I am persuaded, if you would think it worth your attention you might in a short time set all that right. Your Majesty's own personal Character has already got the better of a great deal of Faction. I hope to see you live to get the better of the Rest. The King seem'd pleas'd with what I said, but made no Answer to that. And after some little Pause, said, they talk now I hear of my Lord Orrery's Son. I don't know his name. I said Sir, Lord Boyle, But I do not find, there are much Thoughts of him there. The King said, I saw a Letter from you to the Duke of Newcastle from abroad. You told him, they thought well in France of -- what we had done. I said Sir, it is true that I have heard more Good of your Majestys Government out of this Kingdom, than I have heard in it. The ^ [[addition]] King [[/addition]] smiled a good deal at that. he ask'd me what had been said there of his Measures. I told him that I had heard it said by several, that France in this last Peace had repaid England, the Treaty of Utrecht. I said that the Reduction of Interest particularly had struck them much. They seem'd to hope [[catchword]] much [[/catchword]]