might be followed by the appointment of Lord Moira and Tierney to Ireland; for the present Nepean remains Secretary, and is going in a few days to Dublin.

Corry is to have 20007. a-year for life. I understand that Mr. Yorke is to be brought back into office. In truth, something must be done during the recess towards strengthening the Administration, otherwise their situation will be very unpleasant on the opening of the session.

A.

LORD AUCKLAND TO MR. BERESFORD.

Eden Farm, Aug. 16th, 1804.

MY DEAR BERESFORD,-We accomplished our little excursion pleasantly and prosperously, and after having passed four days at Tunbridge, one at Lord Sheffield's, and one at the Speaker's. We found all our infantry here in high health and good looks. But we have weather which is not good either for man or beast; and I fear that the harvests will be very moderate, both in quality and quantity.

I am heartily glad, for Miss Beresford's sake, that you mean, when you leave Clifton, to settle at Dawlish. Sir Walter Farquhar speaks well of that climate for tender lungs. Perhaps you may have some call to London, and consequently to Eden Farm, before the winter commences; but if not, I will occasionally send such information as may interest you.

It is not improbable that Mr. Rose is at least as much

disgusted as you suspect. In fact, he is put aside, though with an honourable and lucrative office; and his old colleague has the fullest confidence. I have always lived on the same cordial and friendly terms with the latter, who was not so foolish as to quarrel with me because I did not hesitate to declare to all the world that the breaking up of the old Ministry, on the pretext of the Catholic question, was at least an act of folly and an absurdity. I think so still, and perhaps I think worse of it even than ever; and I shall always think that Mr. Pitt's reserves towards me in that business were neither just nor honourable in respect to one with whom he was living, and had long lived, in a system of unbounded confidence. But whether I were right or wrong in that business, is now a matter of small moment, and an old history. And be all that as it may, our old friend Rose should have shown the same kindness to me which I showed to him and to his sons in many essential instances, and which kindness I felt, and still feel, for them all. In my view of the business, I have cordially forgiven them all; in their view of the business, if they still feel that they ought to stand aloof, they only prove to me that none are so unrelenting as those who feel that they are wrong. I wish that you may have some occasion to express these sentiments for me.

I have frequent and authentic accounts from Windsor, and on the whole they are perfectly good, though sometimes there is a return of the hurried manner, which gives alarm and uneasiness; but it is only in family scenes, and time and quiet may get the better of it.

The reconciliation with the Prince has not yet been accomplished.

Believe me, my dear. Beresford, ever affectionately yours,

AUCKLAND.

LORD AUCKLAND TO MR. BERESFORD.

Eden Farm, Sept. 4th, 1804.

MY DEAR BERESFORD,-The enclosed, which you can at any time return, is a decisive, if not satisfactory, answer to you.*

I cannot write more this morning. We are preparing to receive the whole Sullivan colony for a couple of days; and I must ride out with Louisa and Morton; and I must drive the sociable with Lady Auckland, Catherine, and Caroline; and I am also attending to two fields of barley and oats, and to fifteen acres of a second crop of hay; and I am picking and packing peaches and nectarines for presents, as they are much too abundant for our consumption, even with the aid of the wasps, whom I conceive to be more redoubtable invaders than the Boulogne boats.

If it would be an acceptable attention, I would send the kindest compliments of this colony to the family with which you are, and for which I retain an unabated

a The case referred to was the county Leitrim Election, Lord Clements, the Member, becoming, during the recess, Earl of Leitrim. Mr. Beresford's grandson, Colonel Clements, succeeded him next session.

affection and friendship, though I have some little reason to complain of their distance, in all senses and possible explanations of that word. But I am growing too old, and am at the same time too great an economist of good humour and of happiness to harbour long animosities, or to suffer resentments to fester in my soul.

I wish in the meantime that Mr. Rose would use his influence with Wyatt to proceed forthwith in the pullings down and buildings up of Palace Yard. The Speaker and I have laboured in vain to move him. It is really vexatious.

We rejoice in the progress of your daughter.

Believe me, my dear Beresford, ever most sincerely yours,

AUCKLAND.

MR. BERESFORD TO LORD AUCKLAND.

Cuffnells, 9th Sept., 1804.

MY DEAR AUCKLAND,-I received your letter, with enclosure, which is certainly decisive, and although not very satisfactory to me, yet certainly I believe, from a perusal of the Statutes, is too well founded. It will be the cause of some trouble and expense; but that cannot be helped. I suppose the omission of the case will be rectified next session.

I have been here since Monday last. I have not seen Rose looking so well these three years as he does at present, notwithstanding that he, like my poor old friend

John Robinson, continues to write from six in the morning until near four in the afternoon, about something or nothing. Yesterday was his day of election of magistrate at Christ Church, and I accompanied him first to his cottage, and then to his dinner there, which was sumptuous, and seemed to please the guests. I did not get home till ten o'clock.

I thought the best way of impressing Rose with your feelings about him and his family was to read to him as much of your letter as related to them; and I convey to you, as nearly as I can, in his own words, what he said on the instant. He fixed upon the words animosities and resentments, and after solemnly assuring me that no such sensation had ever entered his breast, he said, "You may say to Lord Auckland, that not having a feeling of animosity to any human being (not even against his neighbour at Dulwich), I can have none in his case. I have lately given unequivocal evidence of an opposite feeling with respect to his family. Politics alone never kept me at a distance from anyone in private society. I had lived a good while in habits of affectionate friendship with Lord Auckland, and I had availed myself of frequent opportunities of proving its sincerity on my part; but when his Lordship, from whatever motive, took the line he did in the House of Lords, which gave (I will fairly own I thought) just offence to Mr. Pitt, finding the latter decided to make it a ground of separation, I found it would be impossible for him and me to meet comfortably; and thinking it better not to meet coldly, after our past intercourse, I was induced to write to him and say so; but as to resentment, I desire to