[39] _Daily Post_, 5th July, 1729. [40] Lord Townshend to Poyntz, 14th June, 1728. [41] Letter of Peter Wentworth to Lord Strafford, 31st July, 1729. [42] Chamberlain to the Queen. [43] On the 5th September, 1724, King George I., attended by many of the nobility and gentry, dined with Lord Orkney at Clieveden, where he was magnificently entertained. [44] _Suffolk Correspondence._ [45] These letters are preserved in the Manuscript Department of the British Museum. Some of them have been published in the _Wentworth Papers_, but many of those quoted here have never been printed. [46] One of the Bubble schemes. [47] Claremont was one of the seats of the Duke of Newcastle. [48] The Right Hon. Henry Pelham, son of Lord Pelham and brother of Thomas Pelham, Duke of Newcastle, whose title had been revived in his favour by George the First. [49] This was probably a practical joke played on Peter Wentworth, as he never held the office of secretary to the Queen. [50] The double marriage scheme which had cropped up again for a brief space. [51] Thackeray inaccurately says that “in the year 1729 he (King George II.) went over two whole years, during which time Caroline reigned for him in England, and he was not in the least missed by his British subjects”. The King was only away from March to September, 1729, and then returned to England, where he remained until 1732, when he again went to Hanover. [52] _Vide_ Vehse, _Geschichte der Deutschen Höfe_. CHAPTER VI. THE QUEEN AND THE NATION. 1729–1732. Soon after the King’s return from Hanover, matters came to a crisis between Townshend and Walpole. Ill-feeling had existed for some time, and the Treaty of Seville served to irritate it. The King, who had a great regard for a minister who had served him long and faithfully, was reluctant to let Townshend go, but the Queen, who saw in him an obstacle to her plans, was anxious to be quit of him, and when once she made up her mind, it was not long before she got what she wanted. She suspected that Townshend was in league with Mrs. Howard, and she could not forgive his having endeavoured to curtail her powers as Regent. Moreover, Townshend, who had always treated her with scant respect, had so far forgotten himself as to make a scene in her presence.