h I trusted he had
stood with you in private life? I cannot dwell upon this. I
would have fought your quarrels, I would have felt with you
every reason which may have induced you to urge this recal,
possibly very prudently, justly, and honourably; but it was not
necessary to convince every member of the Cabinet, that your
honour, safe in the hands of Mr. Fox, was not so in mine. Good
God! my dearest brother, loving me as you do, and knowing how I
prize and value you, think over this picture of possibilities,
and join with me (which is all I will ever say to you on a
subject which cuts me to the very heart) in the happiness I
feel, that motives, in which I will say that considerations for
your credit, your honour, and your ease, were decisive,
determined me to reject the first and to accept a second
proposition. That die is cast; my opinion, my reputation, and my
honour are pledged to it. I will believe, because it is my only
joy at such a crisis, that your affections beat as highly to
what conduces to my honour and situation as ever I could wish;
and tell me, my dearest brother, if the whole tenor and every
hour of my life has not proved to you how I valued your
confidence, and how truly it would be my pride to consult your
advancement; and if in taking this situation I have consulted
what was most for the honour and ease of every one of my family,
if I have peculiarly consulted the possible delicacy of your
situation, and have sacrificed every favourite passion of my
heart to it, think what my present feelings are, in the
uncertainty of the extent of those sacrifices which you may
still think yourself obliged to make. The thought, my dearest
brother, distracts me; I hint it to you, but I shall not feel a
moment's happiness till I see you. My letter is dreadfully
incoherent, but it will paint to you the agitation of a mind
struggling for its dearest and nearest object--the affection of
a brother, whom from my childhood I have pressed nearest to my
heart.--I cannot go on.

I called upon Lord Shelburne the moment I had your letter, and
saw him soon after. I carefully obeyed _every injunction_, and
pressed your immediate recal. He stated the necessity of calling
a Cabinet, as he could not take it upon himself, and the King
does not return to town till Wednesday. I urged i