in this mode. To make this more secure Pitt,
undertook, as I have before mentioned, to see him before he
wrote to you, and as that was impossible before the Monday, he
begged him to delay his letter till then. We none of us
conceived that the delay of these two days would have afforded
you any additional uneasiness, as the whole circumstance would,
in the interim, have been stated to you, and explained by
Fitzherbert and myself. When I saw Pitt afterwards, he assured
me that the thing would be done as I wished it. How it has
happened, after this, that you have received the notification
exactly in that form which both Pitt and myself laboured so much
to prevent, is to me utterly inexplicable. I know that what I am
going to say will seem to you extraordinary, and yet I must say
it, because it is the real truth: I am still in the entire,
firm, and thorough persuasion that there is not in Lord Sydney
the remotest wish (as there cannot be the shadow of an interest)
to do anything that can be personally offensive, or even
disagreeable to you. Pitt, on whose sincerity I have ever found
reason to rely, has assured me that he is in the same belief,
and Fitzherbert entirely agrees with me. I am to see Pitt again
in the course of to-day; but I am not sure whether it will be
time enough for this letter. He will have endeavoured to inform
himself upon the subject, and to see whether any and what
solution can be found for the difficulties which you feel with
respect to it. You will, I am sure, feel--and, indeed, your last
letter seems to express it--that after what has passed it is
impossible to induce the King to withdraw Colonel Gwynne, as
that would be a disgrace to which nothing could make him submit,
short of a necessity more absolute than he could see in this
case. Whatever else can be done you will, I am sure, find Pitt
ready and desirous to do. I showed him your letter, which I
received to-day; but I had not communicated to him your two
former letters, because he is spoken of there in terms very
different from what his conduct in this business has merited.
Your letter to him was written in a strain of more justice; but
it is surely early in this business for you to complain of
having been abandoned.

I shall write to you again to-morrow, and it is not impossible
that you ma