_These gentlemen will not be in continual attendance on you; only on great occasions, and to accompany you when you go anywhere, and to dinners, etc.

Seymour is your confidential attendant, and also Schenk and Anson,[76] whom Lehzen has written to you about._ _Old Sir George Anson has been told of your gracious wish to have him as Groom of the Bedchamber and is delighted._ _I_ can only have _Lords_, and they will not be _Peers_, but _Lords_, the eldest sons of Dukes or Marquesses, or Earls (Counts), and who as far as possible are not in Parliament, for then they need not change, _but your people are appointed by you and not by me (nominally), and therefore, unless they were to vote against my Government (which would be awkward), they need not change.

You may rely upon my care that you shall have proper people, and not idle and not too young, and Lord Melbourne has already mentioned several to me who would be very suitable...._ I have received to-day an ungracious letter from Uncle Leopold.

He appears to me to be nettled because I no longer ask for his advice, but dear Uncle is given to believe that he must rule the roast everywhere.

However, that is not a necessity.