Letter signed : Kensington Palace [London], to Sir James Pulteney, 1808 Apr. 21.

Thanking him for his letter and "for the manner in which you have promised your good offices in favor of Doctor Robert Gordon should any opportunity occur wherein you may have the power of serving him, at the same time, it is a matter of much regret to me to perceive that you entertain the opinion that your Recommendation is not likely to be attended to in the nomination of the Medical Officers as proposed by the 5th Report of the Commissioners of Military Enquiry; as however, in looking over that Report, I perceive several medical Officers of no Superior Rank to Doctor Gordon who, although they have been refused their full Pay, have nevertheless in consequence of 30 years Services, been allowed a Pension of £100 pr annum along with their half Pay, I cannot refrain from soliciting from you, in whose Department the power to oblige me exists, a similar Reward for the long and meritorious Services of Dr. Robert Gordon, the more especially, as that Gentleman was so cruelly deprived of all Pay whatsoever, for nearly three years, a circumstance which not only plunged him, but an unoffending family into the severest distress, under which they at this moment most unmerittedly suffer;" suggesting, in a postscript, that he see Dr. Gordon and therefore sending this letter "by his hands."