[ Autograph ] Robert Walpole 1676-1745 English Prime Minister, conducted impeachment of Bolingbroke and Harley; helped accomplish reconciliation of George I and the Prince of Wales, and navigated investors through the South Seas Bubble scandal. A.L.S. 1p. 8vo., [England], Aug. 5, 1730 to a Lord introducing a representative of Newport in the Isle of Wight. In part: '...the interest of the Burrough is at stake, and the providing for this Gentleman is of suchimportance, that yr Lordship will have a great hand in saving it...' Neatly inlaid, fine.