| Content Description | Says they have heard of his safe arrival and hope it will be followed with success; comments on how much he thinks Sir St[ephen] Fox should stay in the king's service and says he has taken great pains to ensure he does so; informs him that he was approached by Lord Cornwallis, wishing that something could be done 'to save the present disgrace' and proposing that he might be made a privy councillor; states that there have been few other commissioners of the Treasury who were not; comments that the Treasury has created some difficulties regarding his [William's] intentions for Lord Coningsby; informs him that Lord Stamford is 'easy as he ought to be concerning Plymouth', and that Lord Winchester has promised to be gone within a fortnight.
Refers to the dissatisfaction felt by Sir H. Hubbard, stating that it was such that he and Lord Shrewsbury felt moved to intervene and assure him that if there were no vacancy in the customs, they would ask him [William] to add him to the number; comments that he [Hubbard] has 'gone into the country to day very well pleased'.
The letter has no year; the year provided is that given in N. Japikse, 'Correspondentie van Willem III en van Hans Willem Bentinck, Eersten Graaf van Portland', Rijks Geschiedkundige Publicatiën (the Hague, 1928), No. 24, p 819.
Pw A 1256/2-3 is a transcript of the letter. |