1st.  Are there any particular forms requisite for the election of a King of the Romans, different from those which are necessary for the election of an Emperor?

2d.  Is not a King of the Romans as legally elected by the votes of a majority of the electors, as by two-thirds, or by the unanimity of the electors?

3d.  Is there any particular law or constitution of the empire, that distinguishes, either in matter or in, form, the election of a King of the Romans from that of an Emperor?  And is not the golden bull of Charles the Fourth equally the rule for both?

4th.  Were there not, at a meeting of a certain number of the electors (I have forgotten when), some rules and limitations agreed upon concerning the election of a King of the Romans?  And were those restrictions legal, and did they obtain the force of law?

How happy am I, my dear child, that I can apply to you for knowledge, and with a certainty of being rightly informed!  It is knowledge, more than quick, flashy parts, that makes a man of business.  A man who is master of his matter, twill, with inferior parts, be too hard in parliament, and indeed anywhere else, for a man of-better parts, who knows his subject but superficially:  and if to his knowledge he joins eloquence and elocution, he must necessarily soon be at the head of that assembly; but without those two, no knowledge is sufficient.

Lord Huntingdon writes me word that he has seen you, and that you have renewed your old school-acquaintance.

Tell me fairly your opinion of him, and of his friend Lord Stormount:  and also of the other English people of fashion you meet with.  I promise you inviolable secrecy on my part.  You and I must now write to each other —­as friends, and without the least reserve; there will for the future be a thousand-things in my letters, which I would not have any mortal living but yourself see or know.  Those you will easily distinguish, and neither show nor repeat; and I will do the same by you.

To come to another subject (for I have a pleasure in talking over every subject with you):  How deep are you in Italian?  Do you understand Ariosto, Tasso, Boccaccio and Machiavelli?  If you do, you know enough of it and may know all the rest, by reading, when you have time.  Little or no business is written in Italian, except in Italy; and if you know enough of it to understand the few Italian letters that may in time come in your way, and to speak Italian tolerably to those very few Italians who speak no French, give yourself no further trouble about that language till you happen to have full leisure to perfect yourself in it.  It is not the same with regard to German; your speaking and writing it well, will particularly distinguish you from every other man in England; and is, moreover, of great use to anyone who is, as probably you will be, employed in the Empire.  Therefore, pray cultivate them sedulously, by writing four or five lines of German every day, and by speaking it to every German you meet with.