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"out of Kindness, & partly, as I tell him, out of vanity, having
"taken me into the Cabinet circle, through which certain letters
"have gone the round of travelling. I have been praying double
"tides for Lady L's recovery, not on her account, nor your father's,
"as you may imagine, but that my constancy and wisdom may
"not be put to the trial by a repetition of the summons to form
"one of her escort to Lisbon. At your age, I should have jumped
"most high at the thought of such a jaunt - but now
"what would France & the rest of the World do, if I were
"to desert them, to go and dangle after other men's petticoats
"at Lisbon?"
"The finding your whereabouts has put into
"my head a project for appointing his son my Ambassador Extraordinary
" & Plenipotentiary to Madame Necker, & accordingly
"I do, by these presents, constitute and appoint you to to my
"said Ambassador at the Court of the said Lady, for the purpose
"of presenting at the toilette of the said lady - not a pincushion,
"but a project of a pincushion of my invention for sticking
"motions on, for the entertainment of the Etats Generaux -
"You are to know that for these five or six months past, my
"head & my heart have been altogether in France; our own
"affairs, I think, no more of them, that of those of the Georgium Sidus.
"I am working as hard as possible on a Treatise on the
"conduct & discipline of Political Assemblies, under the short
"title of Political Tactics - dissecting the practise of our two
"houses, for the instruction of their newly created brethren, having
"taken out a license from your Father for cutting & hucking
"without mercy. I am labouring might and main to get out
"some of the most essential parts at least time enough for
"this meeting. It was in the course of that enquiry that I
"hit upon the project above mentioned, too simple and
"obvious to claim any merit on the score of ingenuity.
"I accordingly take the liberty of troubling you with some papers,
"designed to form, with little innovation, so many chapters in
"the above work, though they would not follow one another in
"immediate succession there, as here,- which of them shall be
"presented, & in what order, I beg leave to commit to your discretion".
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copy of letter 643, vol. 4; also partly printed in bowring x, 196-197 |
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