528 POLITICAL CORRESPONDENCE. [1811. 



bled, I did not write to inform you of the fatal com- 

 munication having come from the Duke of Bedford ; 

 but I begged Lord Kosslyn to let you know, as he 

 seemed to expect you in Scotland. I was not at 

 liberty to tell the reason of the change ; but as you 

 have learned it from another quarter, I may now say 

 that the duke assigns no other cause than the sale of 

 Camelford, which he has nearly completed. I believe 

 him most implicitly, and it gives me the greatest 

 satisfaction ; for it refutes all the other reports which 

 I had heard, and never credited, nor, indeed, thought 

 of. It also makes me disbelieve what I had recently 

 learnt, and what this very post has brought me a re- 

 petition of from another quarter, that a year ago he 

 had resolved upon a change. I am sure had he taken 

 any such resolution he would have communicated it 

 to me long since for instance, at the time (February) 

 that I wrote to him desiring his approbation pre- 

 viously to taking office under you. Nay, even if he 

 should have formed the resolution, and concealed it, 

 I will have recourse to any supposition rather than 

 entertain the slightest doubts of his intentions ; and 

 will at the utmost only set it down to the account of 

 his shyness, being as thoroughly convinced of his 

 perfect fairness and liberality as I can be of any 

 man's. I am sorry for the sale of Camelford on his 

 account as well as my own. It proves his difficulties 

 to be more considerable than I had imagined. I am 

 sure, however, that no difficulties can induce him to 

 part with it to a Tory. 



