Autograph letter signed : Utrecht, to The Duke of Leeds, 1707 September 20.

Reporting the latest military and political news; saying "The Swedes have entirely evacuated the Electorates of Saxony; But tho the treaty between the Emperour & their king be Concluded yet there are still two articles which are not quite agreed upon. These are two pretensions of the King of Sweden. the first that the Emperour should restore to the Protestants of Silesia the very same churches which did belong to them, which the Emperours scruples to do, because they have been consecrated after the Romish way, & offers to give them leave to build others instead of them. the Second is, that he would have part of his troops to winter in Silesia; which the Emperour is Loath to grant. yet by the treaty there are six months allowed to determine these differences. So that the king of Sweden keeps still a pretence to break whenever he thinks fit. As to the Duke of Savoy he's got safe into his dominions, & prepares, as they say, to besiege Suza & the other Places the french are still possest of in them. The fleet is separated: part of it is sayled towards Barcelona, & carries some thousands of men thither. The other part is sayled towards Gaeta, to help the Germans in their siege to that place, & then they are to go for Sicily, where Matters are disposed to such a revolution as that of Naples. As to the Duke of Marlborough, he went last week with the choicest of his troops towards the Lines the Duke of Vendosme is encamped behind, But the french would not stir out, & his Grace did not think fit to force them: so he came back to his camp, & he sees no likelyhood to succeed in the Siege, either of Ypres or Tournay, which is very dubious, the troops will begin to go into winter quarters by the middle of October, so that the campagne is as much as at an end on this side;" adding that he is preparing his accounting of the third quarter.