part of your letter, and believe me, my dear
Lord, ever yours most faithfully and affectionately,

MORNINGTON.

I have been interrupted in this long detail, and have not been able
to send my letter until this evening, the 21st. I am happy to learn
in Pall Mall that Lord Temple is so much better. Nothing new to-day
from Portsmouth; I mean, nothing authentic. Private letters say
that the mutiny is likely to subside for the present, in
consequence of the propositions made yesterday by the Admiralty.
How discipline and subordination are ever again to be restored on
any permanent basis surpasses my understanding to conceive.

LORD MORNINGTON TO MR. SULLIVAN.

Hertford Street, July 3rd, 1797.
SIR,

The Court of Directors have appointed me Governor of Madras, with
the provisional succession to Bengal. The arrangement has been made
by them, and accepted by me, with this understanding: that I am to
undertake the Government of Madras only in the event of Lord
Cornwallis's acceptance of the Government of Bengal. If his
Lordship should not go to Bengal, I am to proceed directly to the
Supreme Government. The nature of this arrangement does not appear
upon the face of it: I state it to you in _strict confidence_, as
it has been explained to me; and I believe you are already
sufficiently acquainted with my sentiments to know my willingness
to hold the Government of Madras under Lord Cornwallis, as well as
my resolution not to hold it under any other person.

Mr. Dundas authorizes me to say that he retains the same intentions
with regard to a provision for Lord Hobart which he stated to you
and to me, and you have been already apprized by me of the footing
on which the proposed peerage stands. You may rely on my constant
and unremitting attention to both objects; but I must declare, in
justice both to Mr. Pitt and to Mr. Dundas, my conviction that
neither will delay the performance of their respective engagements
one instant beyond that in which it shall be possible to execute
them.

I find that Mr. Dundas considers himself to have given sufficient
intimation to Lord Hobart of the intended arrangements, as far as
they could affect his Lordship, by having enclosed to him, in a
despatch forwarded overland some months ago, a copy of the letter