that situation are exactly
in those circumstances in which you can have nothing to fear
from such an expression; and although I cannot refuse, on your
evidence, to believe the actual existence of such an impression,
yet I am fully satisfied that it can neither be permanent in its
duration, nor mischievous in its effects. But it is surely at
least sufficient, even in your view of the subject, if such a
solution accompanies this difficulty, as can leave no doubt in
the mind of any man that you have weight and influence fully
sufficient for carrying on the business of your situation.

It is on this ground that you rest it, and I think with great
propriety, in your letter to Pitt, and his answer, which you
will receive with this, can hardly fail of proving to you that
you _was_ premature in stating yourself to be abandoned by those
on whom you had claims. You cannot wonder that I, who had seen
the activity and zeal which he has shown in this business, from
his first being acquainted with it, should feel hurt at being
obliged to put into his hands a complaint from you so little
merited. I felt also that in the generality of that expression I
was myself involved, and you must allow me to say that I could
not reproach myself with having deserved it.

I trust, however, that there will be no occasion for the
exertions which Pitt engages himself to make on this subject,
and that your proposal will be acceded to by the King without
reluctance. It seems to me that Fawcitt shows a real disposition
to accommodate the wishes of Pitt and yourself, and that the
terms which he proposes are by no means unreasonable. I
sincerely hope that you will not find any difficulty in making
the arrangement for the sort of intermediate compensation, which
is effected before a Government fall. It has occurred to me
that, _faute de mieux_, Hobart's office might facilitate such a
plan. You know, I presume, that he is coming into Parliament
here, and, consequently, that he must be desirous of making some
arrangement with respect to his office which he cannot well
execute by deputy. I have a place to dispose of at Chelsea (the
Comptrollership), which might be made worth about L200 or L250
per annum; but it is the sort of office that Hobart himself
could certainly not take or execute. I have endeavoured to f