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This letter was not sent direct to the Mayor, but under cover 
to Allen. The covering letter read as follows :— 
Tuesday, June 28th, 1757. 
Dear Sir, 
The repeated instances of your kind friendship, and too 
favourable opinion of your faithfull Servant are such and so many, 
that thanks and acknowledgements are quite inadequate. Give me 
leave to present them to you, with a heart so truely yours as, on that 
account, makes me hope your goodness will accept them for something. 
I send open to you, for your perusal, two letters for Mr. Mayor, one 
private in answer to his receivd yesterday, the other for the 
Corporation : if you will be so good to sea] them, and order them to 
be delivered to Mr. Mayor I shall be much obliged to you. You will 
please to observe, I have prepared the Corporation for my not being 
able to attend them in person at my Election, the thing will be. 
utterly impossible, and I trust the necessity of affairs and my 
indispensable attendance on His Majesty will excuse me, I shall be 
better able towards autumn to wait on the Corporation, and hope no 
impression of want of due respect will remain, when the peculiarity of 
my situation, at the present moment is considered. I must in this, as 
in all the rest, rely on your goodness and friendship to help me out of 
my distress. I am with my whole Heart — Dear Sir, 
Your ever obliged and 
Affectionate Servant, 
My best respects W. Pitt. 
to Mrs. Allen and 
Mrs. Warburton. 
Almost immediately after Mr. Pitt writes again : 
Whitehall June 30th 1757 
Dear Sir, 
The writ for Bath will be moved tomorrow, Sr. Robert Henley 
having receiv’d the great seal this day. 
What I now beg leave to trouble you about, is that you wou’d be so 
good, to employ a person to be trusted, to prepare the Under Sheriff, 
