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ANNUAL REGISTER For the YEAR 1772.

and advantage to the gentleman, whose thoughts it seems did not aspire to high as was suspected.
This favorite of the queen having a faction in court, and free accesse to her majesty with much respect, perticularly bicause of his alliance, the queen made him grand master or high treasurer. 
Having this honor and credit, he would permit none to be received into her majesty's service butt his own creatures; and others he would represent to the queen as unfit for her service, or unfaithfull.
One day Grave Magnus informed the queen, that he was extreamly grieved arr some reports, which he was told, had bin made to her majesty touching him: the queen asked him, what reports? he said, of unfaithfullness and treason, which never were in his thoughts against her majesty; and it grieved him, that she should say any such thing of him.
The queen demaunded who had reported this to him; he desired to be excused from naming the party, but said he had bin told so; the queen replyed, I must know who hath thus informed you: he continued to excuse the naming of the parties, butt the queen would know them; which he feeling, he named Grave Tott, and the Baron of Steinbergh.
The queen prefently called in those in the antichamber, divers senators and others, and said to them, Sirs, heer is Grave Magnus who hath made me this report, and told them what it was: the Grave desired her majesty not to speake of them before those gentlemen, and recited all that Grave Magnus had said to her, and sent for Tott and Steinbergh; and, before they came, she said before the company, that those were men of honor, and if they say that I have spoken these words, then I have spoken them.
As soon as they were come, the queen said to them, Sirs, have you said that I spake thus? and repeated Magnus his words: they denied that ever they said so, and desired to know who had reported it of them; the queen replyed, heer is Grave Magnus, who informed me so.
Tott and Steinbergh replyed, that they had each of them butt one life, which (by her majesty's permission) they would imploy to maintain, that they never spake these words; and that if Grave Magnus would justify it, they would deny it to his face. Magnus answeared, that he did not say that these gentlemen had spoken the words, butt that he was told so; Tott and Steinbergh desired to know who told him so? Grave Magnus desired to be excused, and tooked his leave.
After this, the queen sent Grave Gabriel Oxenstierne, and Marshall Wrangel, to Grave Magnus, to know who had told him that Tott and Steinbergh spake the words; and, after some excuses, finding the queen's resolution to know it, he named a collonell that told him so, who, being, sent for denyed it, and said, that his life was in the queen's hands, which he would expose to maintaine that he never speake these words. Magnus affirmed he did, and the collonell denyed; whereupon, in great choller, Magnus desired leave of her majesty to retire himselfe into the country: the

the queen wished him a good voyage, and so he went from the court. Afterwards some of his friends intreated her majesty, that he might returne to court, butt she would not graunt it: he also himselfe wrote to the queen for that purpose, butt she would not give leave for his returne to court; and writt herselfe to him a letter in French, which was this: 
The English of this letter is thus. 
Since you desire to see me agayne, after the disgrace which is happened to you, I am obliged to tell you, how contrary to your satisfaction this desire is; and I write to you this letter to cause you to remember the reasons which hinder my consent, and which ought also to persuade you, that this interview is unprofitable to you repose. It is not in me to bring remedies to your misfortune; it is in yourself only to gaine preparation of your honor. What can you hope for from me, or what can I doe, except to moane and blame you? the friendship which I did bear you, obligeth me both to the one and the other, and a certain indulgence which I have has for you; I cannot without belying myself, pardon you the crime which you have committed against yourself. Doe not believe that I am offended; I protest I am not. I am from hence forth  incable to have any other apprehension for you, than  that of pitty, which, nevertheless, can nothing avayle you, since yourself hath made uselesse the thoughts of bountey which I had for you: you were unworthy of them by your  own confession, and yourself hath pronounced the decree of your banishment in the presence of divers persons of quality. I have confirmed this decree, because I found it just; and I am not so forward to contradict myself, as forme have made you to believe. After what you have done and suffered, dare you snow yourself to me? You hake me ashamed, when I consider to what lowenefs you are fallen. How many submissions have you made even to those to whom you would have done ill? In this unfortunate encounter, one can see nothing of greatness, of handsomeness, or of generosity, in your conduct. If I were capable to repent, I should regret to have contracted friendship with a foule so feeble as yours; butt this weakness is unworthy of me, and having always acted according to reason, I cannot blame the appearances which I have given to the occurrences of time: I should have kept them all my life, if  your imprudence has not constrained me to declare myself against you; honor obligeth me, and justice ordains me, to doe it highly. I have done too much for your these nine years, which I have always blindly taken your part against all; butt, att present, since your abandon your most deare interests, I am dispensed with from having care of them. You yourselfe have published a secret (which I was resolved to have concealed all my life-time) in making known, that you are unworthy the fortune which you had with me. If you are resolved to bear these reproaches, you may come hither: I consent to it uppon that condition; butt doe not hope that either tears of submissions can ever oblige me to the least compliances. All that I am capable to doe for you is, to remember little, and to speak less hereof, except to blame you. This I ought to doe, to make it appeare,  

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