Crotty or Jack Nagle would look to his settlement. I can have no improper view in this; no more than in the other affair, which I earnestly recommended to you, and offered my assistance to conclude. But you, very justly I suppose, paid no regard to my opinions or wishes; I hope you will have no reason to be dissatisfied with what you have resolved on that occasion.

Mr. Doran of Liverpool has informed me, that he could not send the bull to Cork, but that he has shipped him for Dublin, where by this time he is arrived. Mrs. Burke of the Mall is to take care of him. The great point now is to have a safe person to convey him to the county of Cork.

You remember the usual allowance I have made for these two or three years to some poor persons in your county. You will be so obliging to continue it to them according to my plan of last year, which you can refer to or remember. You will not scruple to advance this for me; and I do not doubt but your good nature will prevail on you to take the trouble.

As to my farming-I go on pretty well. All my wheat is in the ground this month past; which is more than some of my neighbours have been able to compass, on account of the wetness of the

season.

Remember us all most affectionately to Molly, the young gentlemen, and the ladies, and believe me, my dear Garret, most sincerely yours,

EDM. BURKE.

EDMUND BURKE TO HIS COUSIN, GARRET
NAGLE, ESQ.

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MY DEAR GARRET, Beaconsfield, August 2, 1776. I DO most heartily wish myself with you. should wish it even if I were not put in mind by this burning weather of the breezy mountains, shady woods, and refreshing waters of Killarney. We have got a summer at last, and it is paying off its arrears of heat with compound interest. Indeed I long sincerely to see you; and if I were not held by various ties, and engaged in various occupations (though neither very pleasant nor important), and if I were as rich as, I thank God, I am still healthy and active, I should this summer pay you a visit in your Woodhouse; that is to say, if you would deign to receive so humble a person after all your great and titled guests. If I see Lord Kenmare, I shall certainly thank him for his civilities to you. I certainly am as much pleased with them as if they were offered to myself; and, indeed, a little more.— My acquaintance with Lord Winchelsea is very slight; but I have known Lord Pembroke pretty intimately for some time. We may meet this summer, and we shall talk you over. I wish you had named me to him.

What you say of Lord Shelburne is more important. I very well remember your application to me some time ago; I remember, too, that I mentioned it to Colonel Barre. Nothing farther came of it. I believe that agency was not vacant

when you wrote. would not have it go farther, there are, I believe, few who can do less with Lord Shelburne than myself. He had formerly, at several times, professed much friendship to me; but whenever I came to try the ground, let the matter have been never so trifling, I always found it to fail under me. It is, indeed, long since he has made even professions. With many amiable qualities, he has some singularities in his character. He is suspicious and whimsical; and, perhaps, if I stood better with him than I do, perhaps my recommendation would not have the greatest weight in the world. This I mention as between ourselves. In the mean time, if an opportunity occurs, I shall do the best I can for you. I hope I am not inattentive to my friends to the best of my power; and let me assure you, that I have ever looked upon you as a friend, whose ease and welfare I have at heart as much as the interest of any person whatsoever. But, indeed, there is little in my power; and if I can serve any person it is by mere accident. I gave assurances to Ned Barret, when I thought myself sure of an object for him, but I was disappointed, and few things have given me more concern. But he and Frank Kiernan have informed me of your engagement for the woods. I trust it will turn out as much for your advantage as you expected.

Between ourselves, and I

Poor Ned Nagle, when he came from the Mediterranean, and had hopes of relaxing himself for a while on the home station, was suddenly ordered to cruise off Saint Helena, to secure the

East India ships against the American privateers. Wat is in London, I saw him some days ago. He is well; and I believe a good natured worthy man. The company has agreed to make him an allowance until he can be regularly employed again. As to Ned Nagle, he is perfectly liked by all the captains he has served under, as a very good officer. He may probably do good service in some better times, and in a course of employment which I may like better for him than any which the present war affords.

If

My son is now at home with me at his vacation. I think you would like him if you were acquainted. Richard, the elder, is in town. his business had prospered, you would have been one of the first to hear of it: but we do not trouble our friends except with pleasing news. He has had much wrong done to him; but the thing is not yet desperate. I believe that the commissioner who goes out will not have adverse instructions.

I have not been punctual in the newspapers, nor can I undertake it, we are so little regular. But I shall endeavour, now you are from home, to amuse you a little.

Wat Nagle was punctual about the money you ordered; I thank you for that and every thing; and am ever with the greatest regard, my dear Garret, your affectionate kinsman, &c. &c.

EDM. BURKE.

EDMUND BURKE TO HIS COUSIN, GARRET NAGLE, ESQ.

MY DEAR GARRET, Beaconsfield, Oct. 2d, 1777. I AM heartily obliged to you for your letter, and for your kind remembrance of me when you happened to see so many of my most particular friends in so remote and sequestered a spot as the lake of Killarney. Ned Nagle told me that they were at your lodge, but your letter only expresses that you dined with them: I am sure that you passed a pleasant day, and I may venture to say, with no less certainty, that the satisfactions of the lake of Killarney were heightened by meeting you there, and by your obliging attentions to them. You are now become the man of the Lough, and must be admitted to be the true Garroit Jarlu, who is come at last. If you are not that Garret, he will never come, and the honest Kerry men will be disappointed from generation to generation. Don't you like Charles Fox? If you were not pleased on that short acquaintance, you would on a further; for he is one of the pleasantest men in the world, as well as the greatest genius that perhaps this country has ever produced. If he is not extraordinary, I assure you the British dominions cannot furnish any thing beyond him. I long to talk with him about you and your Lough. As to the thoughts of our visit to Ireland, it may possibly be in times more favourable to us both; but I am far from being able, at present, to engage for any thing.