, should not have to go on with them,
just as Lord Loughborough did here when the Seals were in
commission for a year. Depend upon it that I do not deceive you,
when I say that it is much better to wait for the favourable
moment, than to hurry it on to a decision now. That favourable
moment may arise sooner or later, but I am confident that
ultimately _le bon tems viendra_. Your information about the
Chancellor's _resolution_ is very curious, because I have reason to
_know_ that McNa. is exactly the very person who has most strongly
urged Thurlow on the propriety of an English appointment, and who
has suggested this curious notion of F.'s unpopularity. But I
mention this, relying upon your honour that you will not repeat it
to _any one_, but particularly not to Fitzgibbon.

I am most sincerely sorry that the consideration of your health
should enter at all into the question of your going or remaining.
Pray let me entreat you, whether you take the one resolution or the
other ultimately, not to delay nor put off one day a fixed
resolution to use constant and sufficient exercise. I am sure any
delay on that head is of a hundred times more consequence than all
those which we have been lamenting. Nothing in the world could make
up to you for the consequences which your omission in this respect
(which I am grieved to learn from Hobart still continues) may bring
upon you. You cannot conceive how earnestly I feel on this subject,
because I am every day feeling the good effects of a contrary
practice, which enables me to go through all the business I have,
without hurting my health or spirits.

Adieu, my dear brother,
Believe me ever most affectionately yours,
W. W. G.

The duel between Colonel Lenox and the Duke of York took place on the
26th of May. The town gossiped about it, but regarded it with
indifference; and neither party got much credit in the end. Mr. Hobart,
on the 30th, communicates another _on dit_ concerning the behaviour of
the Princes.

The Queen and Princesses were last night at the _fete_ given by the
French Ambassador. The Prince of Wales, Dukes of York and Clarence,
were also there; but would not dance, or stay supper, lest they
should have the appearance of paying the smallest attention to Her
Majesty. The officers of the Duke of York's reg