Letter of Transmission. v

While Ogle was struggling to preserve the Proprietary's interests in Mary-
land, Lord Hervey's Memoirs give us glimpses as to Lord Baltimore's occupa-
tion in England. As these notices of the Proprietary have escaped the attention
of most students of Maryland History, it is worth while to make a reference to
them. In 1735 (II, 191), Frederick, the Prince of Wales, sent Baltimore, the
Lord of his Bedchamber, to dismiss the Prince's mistress, when he was about
to marry the Princess Augusta of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

In 1736 when a violent storm at sea occurred, giving rise to the fear that
George II, who was on the Continent about to sail for England, might have
set forth and have been shipwrecked. Lord Hervey talked at the opera with
" Lord Baltimore, who was a great sailor himself and thought to have great
skill in sea affairs." Baltimore believed that the king had embarked and that
it was impossible for any ship to put into an English port during the continu-
ance of the storm, but he was wrong as to both points, for a ship came into
harbor that very day with news that George II had not sailed (III, p. 13).

In 1737, occurred great and sordid dissention between the Prince and his
parents. Baltimore (III, 79) advocated in the House of Commons the Prince's
request that he receive a larger allowance, desiring £ioo,ooo annually. The
king and Sir Robert Walpole successfully opposed the measure and, before it
was introduced, Walpole had an interview with Baltimore, " one of the Prince's
Lords of the Chambers," to see what he and others " could do towards diverting
him from this measure."

Later in the year, the king spoke of Baltimore, as one " who thinks he under-
stands everything and understands nothing—who wants to be well with both
Courts and is well at neither—and, entre nous, is a little mad " (III, 239). A
little later, Queen Caroline told Lord Hervey (III, 245) that Baltimore com-
pared his friend, the Prince's, " bravery and resolution to that of Charles the

XII of Sweden." After a complete breach between the Prince on the one side

and the King and Queen on the other, Baltimore wrote Lord Grantham on
September 13, 1737, in the vain endeavor to transmit a letter from the Prince
to the Queen (III, 247). On the 2Oth the Queen wrote the Princess Augusta
a friendly letter, which Prince Frederick showed Baltimore, asking him how
he liked it (111,263).

Baltimore used always to vote with the Court, supporting Walpole, in spite
of friendship for the Prince, and with others sent word to Frederick, that, by
taking Mr. Lyttleton as his Secretary, they feared that he " designed to go
entirely into the measures of those who opposed that Court." They should ever
adhere to Frederick " in any question in Parliament, where he was personally
concerned," but " they could not possibly, in public affairs, act in any manner
different from the principles by which their conduct had hitherto been in-