Dublin.
St. James's Place,
24th May, 1783.
My dear Lord,
I return you many thanks for your two letters of y^e 10th and 11th
inst., and for the trouble you are so obliging as to take on y^e
business of the Examiner's Office. I have found a copy of an
appointment of an Examiner transmitted to me by Lodge in the year 1762,
and I send you Mr. Meredith's appointment upon the stamp'd paper you
inclosed to me. If that appointment will not answer, or if the stamp is
not a proper one, as you seem to hint may be the case, I must desire
you to tell Mr. Perry to make out a proper appointment and send it over
ready for my signature. I shou'd hope the one I send herewith will
answer, that you may have no further trouble. I perceive five hundred
pounds English was y^e sum I receiv'd in 1762; and I imagine that is
the sum Mr. Meredith proposes to give now, and to which I give my
consent.
I thank you for inquiring after my health; my fits of the gout are not
very violent, but I am very glad you never have any of them. Pray make
my best comp^{ts} to Scott, and tell him that I din'd yesterday at
Streatham with Macnamara, who is getting better, notwithstanding the
weather here is as cold as at Christmas.
I am, my dear Lord, with all possible regard, your most sincere friend
and oblig'd humble servant,