Autograph letter signed : Patna, to [Sir Philip Francis], 1780 Aug. 2.

Commenting on a General who that day "arrived at Dynapore in his way to Calcutta;" saying "The poor old gentleman is almost mortified into melancholy madness, that his military recommendations in all cases, have not been considered as indisputable orders: and that he has lost the power he obtained by sacrificing his pride and resentment to an old enemy. At the bare recollection of it, his blushing Ribband turns pale about his neck, and the metallic honour on his breast, as if it sympathized with the wearer, withdraws its beams, and sheds a sickly, and disastrous gloom. The name of Hastings convulses him and yet I fear his frailty would again expose him to derision and insult, to rise once more the hero of the day. But I am convinced from his mild pronounciation of your name, that he would sooner derive his future consequence from a connexion with you, than from the Governor whom he can neither confide in, nor esteem;" expressing concern for his [Francis's] health;