country; and from my
heart and soul I earnestly hope that you may return home with
the same popularity and credit that you carry out. I must be
lost to all feeling, if I did not take the warmest interest in
the honour and prosperity of your Government, and if I did not
acknowledge myself to be bound by the strongest ties of
friendship and gratitude to contribute everything within my
power to promote its strength, in any way in which you may
please to call upon me.

You may well believe with what pleasure I received your
appointment of my brother to a place in your family, not only as
being a most kind mark of your regard for me, but as the
greatest advantage to him. I am persuaded that under your eye he
will not be exposed to any of those risks, which in other times
have accompanied the situation he will hold. I can assure you
sincerely that he has every disposition which can render so
young a boy deserving of your notice; and if he does not engage
your protection by his conduct, I am much mistaken in his
character. My mother expects him every hour in London, and
before this time I should hope that he had himself waited on
you. Once more, my dear Lord, before I close this part of my
letter, let me thank you most warmly for this flattering
instance of your friendship. Grenville, I hope, has shown you my
letter, in which I declare that I would not have asked you for
this favour, knowing your inclination to attend to my requests,
and apprehending that you might suffer your regard for me to
interfere to the prejudice of your Government; but certainly
this object for my brother was very near my heart, and I accept
it with a gratitude proportioned to the anxiety with which I
desired it, and to the most friendly manner in which it has been
given.

The rest of the letter is filled with recommendations of other
persons--Hobart, Captain Fortescue, Jephson, who had the care of the
stables at the Castle, an office which he had held for twenty years, and
of whom Lord Buckingham seems to have received some unfavourable
impressions, a Mr. Mockler, for whom Lord Mornington solicited "anything
above L70 a year in a _genteel line_" (his own phrase), and others. In
another letter, dated 8th of November, Lord Mornington, in a postscript,
refers again to the appointment of his brother Arthur.

I am sorry to fi