• A LONG WAITING.
The Arrival of Colonel Manners this day in regular suc- ceeding Waiting as Equerry to His Majesty, releived Me from My long Waiting as such, of sixteen Weeks, excepting the interruption of about 10 days, during which time I have witnessed many very embarrassing & variety of extraordinary Scenes. A Waiting so different from all I have hitherto been used to, that much shall I rejoice, to return to the more
simple duties of an Equerry, uninterrupted by His Majesty's Illness & unannoy'd by those Party Feuds on jarring politics, which have been so improperly maintained by some within
the Walls of Kew Palace, since His Majesty was removed to it from Windsor.
To The King I owe the fullest acknowledgement of his uniform kindness, nay Affection towards Me, whether in his turbulent, or in his Calm moments— but I do not feel that expressions of equal Obligations are due from Me, in some other Quarters.
The former have fixed my lasting love & gratitude. The latter will never alter a respect due from Mc. & in which I
have at no time been deficient—
The Situation in 'which I was placed gave Me opportunity of Imowing much, & seeing much, & in the course of Painftil & distressing periods, the Information I posses.i'd might
have been usefully extended to some few, who had a right to ask it of Me—but in such directiona to which I now allude,
it was not asked for of Me. Mr. Pitt in all his Visits here never once enquired for Me, nor did He ask information from Me, but not unfrequently He returned from hence with details less accurate, than those which plainer matter of fact, within his ready reach, might have afforded Him.
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