nd by a letter from my mother to-day, that her
extreme anxiety to get my brother into your family induced her
to make an application to you through W. Grenville on the
subject; I have already stated, that I never would have urged
this point, though I accept the favour from you with the utmost
gratitude. However, the eagerness which has led her to this
step, affords a sufficient proof of the satisfaction which she
must feel, in the very kind manner in which you had anticipated
her wishes.

The answer of Lord Buckingham to the numerous requests of Lord
Mornington, evinces the promptitude of his desire to promote the wishes
of his correspondent.

I have desired that your brother may buy his men from a Charing
Cross crimp, that he may not be spoilt by recruiting, and am
happy that I can name him as aide-de-camp. Your Mr. Jephson is
a ----, I will not say what, but knowing him to be so, I may
possibly keep him. Your Mr. Mockler shall be ensign as soon as I
can make him one, or some other _genteel thing_. Your Mr. Elliot
may be chaplain, if he likes being at the tail of my list, with
the impossibility of ever getting anything.

And so on through the rest of the catalogue.

The following letters from Mr. Grenville refer to personal matters, and
chiefly to the promotion of Dr. Cleaver, which Lord Buckingham was
anxious to obtain, and which is promised in a subsequent letter from Mr.
Pitt.

MR. W. W. GRENVILLE TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

Whitehall, Nov. 7th, 1787.

My dear Brother,

I have received your letter of yesterday. I do not know what I
can say on the subject, more than you will have learnt from
Pitt's letter. If you really feel disposed to insist on the
engagement, without waiting ten days to hear the difficulties
explained to you, or the solution proposed, I have no doubt,
from a thorough knowledge of Pitt's honour, that he will most
strictly and literally fulfil his promise, whatever the
inconvenience may be to himself. I have only to add, in answer
to one part of your letter, that you must recollect that
Harley's promotion, instead of being a breach of the rule, was
in the strictest adherence to it; and that Lord Lonsdale was
obliged to make his recommendation to Carlisle conformable to
it.

I saw Orde to-day, who, understanding that you do not come up
till t