572 ANNUAL RE 
the crown and the kingdom may de- 
pend. 3 
I do not, my dear brother, won- 
der. that, in the hurry of your pre- 
sent occupations, these considera- 
tions should have been overlooked ; 
they are now in your view, and i 
think cannot fail to make a due im- 
pression. 
As to the rest, with every degree 
of esteem possible for your judg- 
ment of what is due to a soldier’s 
honour, ‘I must be the guardian 
of mine to the utmost of my power, 
&e. &e. (Signed) G..P. 
dis Royal Highness the 
Duke of York. 
Horse Guards, Oét. 11. 
My dear brother, 
I have this moment, upon my ar- 
rival in town, found your letter, 
and lose no time in answering that 
part of it which appears to me 
highly necessary should be clearly 
understood. 
Indeed, my dear brother, you 
must give me leave to repeat to 
you, that, upon the fullest con- 
sideration, I perfeétly recollect your 
having yourself told me, at Carlton- 
house, in the year 1793, on the 
day on which you was informed of 
his majesty’s having acquiesced in 
your request of being appointed to 
the command of the 10th regiment 
of light dragoons, of which sir Wil- 
liam Pitt was then colonel, the mes- 
sage and condition which was de- 
livered to you from his majesty, and 
which his majesty repeated to me, 
in the year 1795, as mentioned in 
my letter of ‘Thursday last: and [ 
have the fullest reason to know, 
that there are others to whom, at 
that time, you mentioned the same 
circumstance ; nor have I the least 
recollection of your having denied 
GISTER, 1803. 
it to me, when I delivered to you 
the king’s answer, as I should cer- 
tainly have felt it incumbent upon 
me to recal to your memory, what 
you had told me yourself in the 
year 1793. 
No conversation whatever passed 
between us, as you justly remark, 
in the year 1796, when sir William 
Pitt was promoted to the king’s 
dragoon guards, which was done 
in consequence of what was ar- 
ranged in 1793, upon your first 
appointment to the 10th light dra. 
goons; and I conceive, that your 
mentioning in your letter my having 
stated a conversation to have passed 
between us in 1798, must have 
arisen from some misapprehension, 
as do not find ¢hat year ever ad- 
verted to in my letter. 
I have thought it due to us both, 
my dear brother, thus fully to reply 
to those parts of your letter, in 
which you appear to have mistaken: 
mine; but, as I am totally unac- 
quainted with the correspondence 
which has taken place upon this sub- 
ject, I must decline entering any 
further into it. 
1 remain ever, my dear brother, 
With the greatest truth, 
Your most affectionate brother, 
(Signed ) Frederick. 
i 
Brighton, Oé¢. 12, 1803. 
My dear brother, 
By my replying to your letter of 
the 6th instant, which contained no 
sort of answer to mine of the se- 
cond, we have fallen into a very 
frivolous altercation, upon a topic 
which is quite foreign to the pre- 
sent purpose: indeed, the whole . 
importance of it lies in a seeming 
contradi¢tion in the statement of a 
fact, which is unpleasant, even upon 
the idlest occasion. 
I meant 
