Note 8 — LETTER I.
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This was his Royal Highness, now Prince of Wales. All Europe, in short, thought, as did the Poets of that Time; and every one in general mark'd out the Princess for this Prince. It was then too the Desire of both the Queens; and the Princess herself seem'd to have been brought up in that Notion. But when 'twas least of all expected, certain Reasons of State cancell'd all these Views; and the King of Prussia thought fit to marry his eldest Daughter in 1731, to the Hereditary Prince of Brandenburg-Bareith: as King George II. of Great Britain, in 1756, thought fit to marry his eldest Son to her Highness, Augusta, youngest Sister of the present Duke of Saxe-Gotha.