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Town. As it may be some time before 1 can procure this document, I 

 recommend you to write him your observations on his plan, without 

 delay. Indeed, you had better, I think, have done so at once, or at least 

 allowed me to send him extracts from your letter; as it requires so long 

 a time to send a letter to Port Talbot and receive .an answer to it. You 

 need not have felt at all distrustful of the manner, in which your re- 

 marks were expressed. There was no fault to be found with them. 



1 sincerely hope you may succeed in the affair of the Pension — 

 Wortley,2 whom I saw a few days before I went to Leamington, assured 

 me that he had seconded your views, to the best of his ability, with Ld. 

 Bathurst. I wrote to Fanny,^ to beg she would remit a subscription of 

 Ld. Ormondes for your church, of 5£ Irish, to Morland. "When I hear 

 that it has been paid in, I will make thenl send you a credit for the 

 small Balance due. 



I believe you know, that on my return from Holland, about ten 

 weeks ago, I proceeded for Leamington, to meet my Mother and Eliza,* 

 who had come over on a vtisitito Charlotte.^ I foaad my Mother's 

 memory a little confused at times; but in other respects she is wonder- 

 fully well. They all three go on a visit to Stowe in a day or two. from 

 whence my Mother and Eliza will return to Ireland, Charlotte proposing 

 t? leave England, for Sienna (where she will join James's family) on 

 the 1st of next month. She is surprisingly improved in health and 

 spirits. James's eldest boy ® ought to be now setting out on his way to 

 Cambridge, where he must be on the 15th of Octr. I conclude my mo- 

 ther will pay his expenses, tho' she has not said a word on the subject 

 to me. 



We met the Buckinghams ''' at Leamington ; and they were all civil- 

 ity; — the Duchess particularly kind to Charlotte. He told me how 

 anxious he was to find an opportunity of sending you out the blood- 

 hounds, and assured me that they should be taken the greatest care of, 

 till either he or I could hear of somebody, who would take charge of 



2 James Stewart Wortley, M.P., aftcrv/ard Lord Wharncliffa, son of Tal- 

 bot's early friend. See ante, page 96. 



3 Frances Gabriella, a sister, afterwards countess of the Austrian empire, 

 and chanoinesse of the royal order of Ste. Anne of Bavaria. 



4 A sister, Avho married, 1st George Mellifont, and 2ndly., in 1844, Ellis 

 Cunliffe Lister Kaye. 



•"' Youngest sister, married 1st Lieut.-Col. Cutcliffe, 2ndly Gerald Fitz- 

 gerald. 



c Both James and his son became successively Barons Talbot of Mala- 

 hide after Richard's death. 



Î The ducal family. When the duke (then marquis) of Buckingham was 

 Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, TalbofTiad been on his staff. See ante, page 23. 



