Villa's eloquence of truth; the Grumkow-Reichenbach Correspondence in St.Mary Axe: these two things produce their effect.

These on the one hand; and then on the other, certain questionable aspects of Fleury, after that fine Soissons Catastrophe to the Kaiser; and certain interior quarrels in the English Ministry, partly grounded thereon:--"On the whole, why should not we detach Friedrioh Wilhelm from the Kaiser, if we could, and comply with a Royal Sister ?" think they at St.James's.
Political men take some interest in the question; "Why neglect your Prince of Wales ?" grumbles the Public: "It is a solid Protestant match, eligible for Prince Fred and us!"-- "Why bother with the Kaiser and his German puddles ?" asks Walpole: "Once detach Prussia from him, the Kaiser will perhaps sit still, and leave the world and us free of his Pragmatics and his Sanctions and Apanages."-- "Quit of him?
German puddles ?" answers Townshend dubitatively,--who has gained favor at headquarters by going deeply into said puddles; and is not so ardent for the Prussian Match; and indeed is gradually getting into quarrel with Walpole and Queen Caroline.

[Coxe, i.

332-339.] These things are all favorable to Dr.Villa.
In fact, there is one of those political tempests (dreadful to the teapot, were it not experienced in them) going on in England, at this time,--what we call a Change of Ministry;--daily crisis laboring towards fulfilment, or brewing itself ripe.

Townshend and Walpole have had (how many weeks ago Coxe does not tell us) that meeting in Colonel Selwyn's, which ended in their clutching at swords, nay almost at coat-collars: [Ib.