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from and after the Union be Peers of Great-Britain and should have rank and precedency next and immediately after the English Peers of the like orders and degrees who might be created after the Union-- Mr Robert Harley had so highly distinguished himself in detecting the Parliamentary corruptions practised in the last reign and also in the debates concering disbanding the Army, and on sending away the Dutch Guards as to have acquired a degree of high reputation with the independent Party in Parliament--He had not been long in the Office of secretary of State before he found an alteration in the disposition of the Queen which flattered him with hopes infenitely more ambitious than the acting as an humble instrument in the hands of the Marlborough faction; by the means of his relation Mrs Marsham he had frequent secret interviews with her Majesty--One must be thoroughly acquainted with the character and disposition of the Dss of Marlborough to have an
