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" P.S. I have to beg pardon for having misled 

 you as to Lord Grenville being returned from Corn- 

 wall. I understood this from the Kings, but I now 

 find that it was in Devonshire, on his way down, that 

 they had seen him. He had not returned a fortnight 

 ago/' 



TO THE EARL OF EOSSLYN". 



" EDINBURGH, Nov. 8, 1807. 



" MY DEAR LORD ROSSLYN, I have just received 

 a letter from Mr Warre, our consul at Oporto, and 

 I enclose it, not only because it contains some late 

 intelligence from that quarter, but because he seems 

 to wish that the contents of it should reach the 

 Foreign Office, which I think might be best effected 

 by your desiring Vincent to look after it. I should 

 have sent it direct to Hammond, without troubling 

 you, but I have understood there is some dryness 

 between him and Warre. The case of the people at 

 Oporto, and of poor Mr Warre especially, is most 

 pitiable. What he says of neglecting his own con- 

 cerns in looking after the factory under his care, I 

 verily believe to be strictly true. He is of all the 

 mercantile men I ever saw by far the least sordid ; 

 and I saw with my own eyes how constantly he 

 sacrificed his private interest to his situation, which 

 was indeed his hobby; and you will observe that 

 after all he was only a vice-consul, receiving nothing 

 like a repayment of the necessary expenses of his 

 office; but he loved to play the old Castilian, and 

 considered himself as the father of the factory. His 



