The Earl of Galway writes in his dispatches that they are great at promises, but he finds he can expect little assistance from them." "Have you any idea whether we are going to land here ?" "No; wherever we land, you may be sure it won't be here.

The Earl of Galway has been here two or three months, and he has some good regiments with him.

Our chief would be losing his position did we land here, as he has a separate command, and would of course be under Galway if the forces were joined.

The Dutch fleet is to be here in a day or two, and the Archduke Charles sailed a fortnight before we did; and as we have made a very slow voyage of it, he ought to have been here long ago.

What a talk there will be! What with the archduke, and the Portuguese, and the Dutch, and the Prince of Hesse Darmstadt, and the Earls of Galway and Peterborough, and probably every one of them with his own ideas and opinions, it will be hard to come to any arrangement.