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T shall be impatient. Sr. Robt. Heniy is Ld. Keeper, and now it seems 
Ld. Halifax did not actually resign, but only threatened to do it. 
I am with the kindest affection and regard 
Dr. Sy. 
Yr. most faithfull 
Tuesday June 28th Tuo. Porter. 
The Mayor shd. be told that Monday the 11th of July, is the 
Day on wceh. Mr. Pitt desires his Election as being the most likely 
‘time for him to get leave of absence. 
On the same date the “‘ great Commoner” himself, writes thus 
to the Mayor of Bath :— 
Tuesday June 28th 1757 
Mr. Mayor, 
Give me leave to present to you, and thro’ you to the 
‘Gentlemen of the Corporation of the City of Bath, my most respectfull 
-and warmest acknowledgements for the high mark of their favour and 
Confidence, in vouchsafeing to think of me for their Representative in 
Parliament. I have long ambition’d the honour of a seat there, 
-derived from a Body so independent and so truely respectable as the 
City of Bath, and which can never fail to reflect Lustre and impart 
weight, to whoever they shall be pleased to think not unworthy of so 
high and honourable a Trust. As soon as the necessity of affairs will 
permit me, on my return again to business, to be absent from my 
attendance on his Majestys Commands, I propose to wait on the 
Corporation in person, and to assure them more particularly of the 
deep and warm sentiment of respect and gratitude, with which I am 
and shall ever be devoted to the City of Bath, and to every member of 
“the Corporation. I am with the greatest consideration, 
Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen of the Corporation, 
Your most obliged and most 
Obedient humble Servant, 
W. Pirr. 
