368 MISSION TO PORTUGAL. [1806. 



" I am sadly in want of boxes and copying-paper, 

 and don't know that those which were coming to you 

 are not stopt. 



" I fear there is some contretemps at the Foreign 

 Office about my letters, for I have not received one ; 

 therefore I suppose they were all stopt on the sup- 

 position of my coming home. May I beg you to let 

 them be sent out speedily. Though I were to miss 

 them, it would not signify: they can follow me. 



" If you hear anything about peace, I trust to your 

 kindness to let me know it soon. I beg leave to re- 

 peat my offer of service to you in anything you wish 

 to have done here. Once more, believe me, with great 

 esteem and respect, most faithfully yours, 



" HENRY BROUGHAM." 



TO LOED ROSSLYK 



" LISBON, Nov. 9, 1806. 



" MY DEAR LORD, You will scarcely thank me for 

 giving you a hurried private letter, and I have not 

 ten minutes to write it in before the packet goes. My 

 chief reason for troubling you at present is to say 

 that, in conformity with your desire, I have very care- 

 fully, and with no small labour and exertion of 

 patience, kept perfectly well with Strangford. This 

 was necessary for the public business ; but I appeal to 

 you, who know him, how difficult a thing it was. My 

 temper has been tried perpetually by his infinite 

 childishness in doing business, and indeed in doing 

 everything else ; and really, however unpleasant to 



