| I have done. (8) And his joy that I resign may be mistaken for his being pleased with me that I came, which will be more favourable for us both. | "(8) With great submission, all this is not worth the hazarding one single moment of uneasiness or convenience to obtain. If you remain, the appearances will be preserved for their own sakes. If you go you will get nothing more.
"What had been right and wise, had Lord Bute continued, will be by no means equally so if he does not. Who have you obliged? Who are you to oblige? Is it those who are to come in? No. Will they be inclined then to manage you? A strong active opposition is likely to happen. They must fall on the general measures of Government, or some particular part. In either, you probably may have a large share of their ill-will. Would it be then prudent to be off your guard, and trust for fair and civil treatment to their good humour, candour, &c.? Remaining in the House of Commons all parties will be careful, at least, not to displease you you need not therefore take part, but be as much at liberty and ease as you like. |
| "My remaining in the House of Commons, and in a situation to struggle if I will, is not, my dear Mr. Nicholl, that perfect tranquillity you wish me in. (9)
"That can be only be had in the House of Lords, the world forgetting, by the world forgot. Think over this impartially. I could not think about it early yesterday, nor I believe you neither. "I really do suppose, and surely I may, that by June 24th (three months) all my money may be gone that it is necessary should go."[1] |
"(9) I grant it, but from my heart I believe it the most certain way of securing it in due time. It is seldom to be obtained the moment it is wished. The proper moment for that must be watched and catched when it offers. This (to me) seems not to be that moment. You may forget the world, but for a time it must so hang to you and you to it, that it will not forget you. When it does, go. You will have my full consent: you can at any time get into the House of Lords." |
- ↑ It should be always borne in mind that, in making a private profit by investing the exchequer balances on his own account, Fox was not only doing what every Paymaster, except Pitt, had done with the knowledge of the public, but what the public would have been very much astonished if he had not done, as it was in the case of Pitt.
