Autograph letter signed : Utrecht, to The Duke of Leeds, 1708 May 22.

Informing the Duke that there has been much discussion in Utrecht of the "broils between the Senate & the Citizens of Hamborough, which have occasioned the Directors of the Circle of Lower Saxony (who are the kings of Sweden & Prussia & the Elector of Brunswick) to send, every one, some troops to force them to be quiet"; writing that they hear there are twelve thousand troops surrounding Hamburg, and they are prepared to enter the town if the mediators (who appear to be Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Queen Anne) can't bring about an agreement between the opposing sides; explaining that "[a]ll the tumult is come by the Means a [sic] the Minister of a Parish, who by his Seditious Sermons has stirred up the Mean People against the Chief Magistrates. As did formerly one Meyer, of the Same Tribe, whom they were at last forced to turn out of their city, & whom the king of Sweden has made a Lutheran Bishop"; writing that they hear this news from two gentlemen from Hamburg currently in Utrecht, who are the sons of "two of the Chiefest Senators", and that these men say Hamburg will probably have to pay "three or four hundred thousand Ducates for the Charges of the Directors of the Circle & of the Mediators"; mentioning that the King of Prussia's grandson, Frederick Louis, has died at the age of twenty-three weeks, "which death will keep the Prince Royal, his father, to make the Campagne upon the Rhine"; telling him that the army which Prince Eugene will command on the Moselle is preparing to take the field and that the Prince is expected to arrive at Koblenz shortly; promising to send more news as events develop; mentioning that a "Mrs. Rosingh" has just arrived from Amsterdam and is on her way back to England, bringing with her for the Duke "the Chocolate & the receit to make it."