ral, and give him directions, unless you have settled it already some other way. You know, it must come out just when the parliament meets.
Keep these letters where I advise you about your living, till you have taken advice.
Keep very regular hours for the sake of your health and credit; and wherever you lie a night within twenty miles of your living, be sure call the family that evening to prayers.
I desire you will wet no commission with your old crew, nor with any but those who befriend you, as Mr. Tickell, &c.
TO LORD CARTERET.
I AM obliged to return your excellency my most humble thanks for your favour to Mr. Sheridan, because when I recommended him to you, I received a very gracious answer; and yet I am sensible, that your chief motive to make some provision for him was, what became a great and good person, your distinguishing him as a man of learning, and one who deserved encouragement on account of his great diligence and success in a most laborious and difficult employment[1].
Since your excellency has had an opportunity so early in your government, of gratifying your English dependants by a bishoprick, and the best deanery in
- ↑ A schoolmaster.
