that the thing is very practicable.

'I had this day the honour to dine with the King of Poland, and, as I
sat next to him at table, he told me that he was very glad to hear
that the Pretender's son was at length found to be at Venice, for
that he would much rather have him there than in Poland; to which I
answered that I was very glad, upon His Polish Majesty's account,
that the Pretender's son had not thought fit to come into any of His
Majesty's territories, since I believed the visit would be far from
being agreeable. To which the King of Poland replied that IT WOULD
BE A VERY DISAGREEABLE VISIT TO HIM, and after that expressed himself
in the handsomest manner imaginable with respect to His Majesty, and
the regard he had for his Sacred person and Royal House; and I am
convinced if the Pretender's son had gone into Poland, His Polish
Majesty and his minister would have done everything in their power to
have drove him out of that kingdom as soon as possible.

'C. HANBURY WILLIAMS.

'P.S.--Since my writing this letter, Count Bruhl tells me that the
news of the Pretender's son's being at Venice is confirmed by letters
from his best correspondent at Rome, but both accounts agree in the
Pretender's son's being at Venice incognito, and that he appears in
no public place, so that very few people know of his being there. . .
. C. H. W.'


In 1751, Hanbury Williams renewed his proposal about waylaying
Lascaris.