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Secretary's office as a reason, there can now be no objection to
it, as we have agreed that it would be right that, by the time you
can receive this letter, we should begin to buzz it about, as a
thing not improbable to happen.

With respect, however, to your peerages, I have, as I promised you,
got Pitt to state them to the King, who has consented to them,
Marquisates and all. You may now, therefore, recommend them as soon
as you please, and _I_ will take care there shall be no further
unnecessary delay.

There are, however, still two points with respect to this business.
I understand from Hobart that Lord Glerawley wants his promotion to
be limited to his brother. This had not been stated in your
letters, and I was therefore unable to mention it to Pitt. It is
therefore still possible that the King may make some objection to
this, as you know it is against one of his rules (though by no
means an invariable one) to give a step and a limitation at the
same time.

The other is essential, and can, I hope, make no difficulty with
you. He is willing to _engage_ that these should _all_ be done
without delay, but he seems much to wish that the promotions and
creations should be separated, in order that they may not, by
coming together, appear to fill too large a column in the
"Gazette." There must, therefore, be an interval of a fortnight or
three weeks. You will judge whether the promotions or creations
should come first.

The only remaining point is that of the Seals. I beg you to believe
me sincere when I assure you that, independent of your wishes upon
the subject, my own opinion is quite as much made up as yours is on
the subject of Fitzgibbon's appointment. But, in the same
sincerity, I assure you that it is by no means advantageous towards
the attainment of this object, that it should be pressed forward in
the present moment. Hobart has asked me whether Fitzgibbon's coming
over would not be of use to him? I am strongly inclined to be of
opinion that it would; but before I gave him a decisive answer, I
wish to consult Pitt, and he is not to write to Fitzgibbon till
after that. With respect to the difficulty of your Chancery causes,
I can conceive no earthly reason why Carleton, especially as he is
to receive so great a favour