Autograph letter signed : Utrecht, to The Duke of Leeds, 1707 July 5.

Apologizing that he has not yet sent the summary of his accounts but promising to do so within the week; relating what he knows of "...transactions upon the upper Rhine. All what we hear is that Mareschal de Villars threatens to Besiege Ulm & Hailbron to keep an open passage betwixt Alsatia & Swabia to facilitate his design of entring into Bavaria, or to have a way to retreat in case he should not succeed; which however he's likely to do, unless Prince Eugene & the Duke of Savoy do speedily penetrate into Dauphine, which is the only means, In my opinion, of altering for the better the present dismal posture of affairs. They are not without fear at Vienna of some Invasion into Bohemia on the part of the Swedes, & 'tis certain that the Hungarians seem much encouraged by the approach of the Swedish troops towards Silesia. God only knows what will happen in this respect;" saying he is sending him a recently published book "...containing all the treaties of peace made in Europ since that of Munster, to that betwixt the King of Sweden & King Augustus Inclusively; which I suppose will be acceptable to y'r Grace. I cannot but believe that there are some secret articles besides what 'tis made publick betwixt those two kings, otherwise 'tis as odd a treaty as ever was; reporting that the boys are well.